MEDIA  RELEASEPI 83/248 MINISTER FOR PRIMARY INDUSTRY

CANBERRA

27 October 1983

Fishing Industry Research Grants

Additional grants for the 1983/84 financial year   totalling $770,000 from the Commonwealth Government's Fishing   Industry Research Trust Account were announced today by the   Minister for Primary Industry, Mr John Kerin.

The grants are for seven projects in the areas of   biological and scientific research, exploratory fishing and   fisheries extension, and are in addition to the fifty one   projects valued at $2.3 million previously announced by the   Minister. This brings the total amount approved for the

1983/84 program to $3.1 million, an increase of 45 per cent on   the 1982/83 expenditure of $2.1 million.

The Commonwealth Fishing Industry Research Trust   Account is in its twelfth year of operation, and the funds   comprise a dollar-for-dollar contribution by the Commonwealth   Government for money raised by the States from the fishing

industry and paid into approved State fisheries research funds.

The additional projects are detailed in the attached list.

Contact: Jock Rankin Press Secretary  72 6066

Organisation Project Amount

Recommended

$

Department of  Primary Industry

Distribution of "Australian  Fisheries" free of charge to  licensed Australian fishermen

120,000

CSIRO - Division of  Fisheries Research Investigation of the biology  of tiger prawns in the

western Gulf of Carpentaria >

348,000

CSIRO - Division  of Fisheries Research Deepwater survey of crustacean  resources off the North West

Shelf .

86,000

New South Wales Dept,  of Agriculture Mortality of the Sydney Rock  Oyster in northern New South

Wales and southern Queensland

45,000

Victorian Ministry  for Conservation Eastern Victorian trawl fish  biology and stock assessment

"85,000

Tasmanian Fisheries  Development Authority Selected breeding of Pacific  Oysters - Does mantle colour

have a simple genetic basis

20,000

University of  Melbourne

Role of Australian seafood in  protecting against occlusive  vascular disease ,

65,000

