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PI87/118 17 June 1987

FISHING INDUSTRY RESEARCH GRANTS

Further Commonwealth grants totalling $1,169,299 have been   approved for fishing industry research.

The Director of the Department of Primary Industry's Australian   Fisheries Service, Mr Michael Blarney, said today the grants had   been approved by the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr John   Kerin.  Â·

Details of initial grants from the Fishing Industry Research   Trust Account (FIRTA) were released on 29 May 1987 when   projects valued at $5,030,302 were announced.

"These further grants follow from the Fishing Industry Research   Committee (FIRC) consideration of applications deferred at   their March meeting," Mr Blarney said.

"Three grants have been awarded for research on the orange   roughy resource, including a major project costing $500,000 to   be undertaken by CSIRO.

"This project aims at estimating the resource and obtaining   biological information useful for management of the fishery.

"A grant of $293,000 has been awarded to the Victorian   Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands to continue their   assessment of the Western Bass Strait trawl fishery."

Mr Blarney said that funds in the Trust Account comprised moneys   provided by the Commonwealth, which matches State contributions   to their fishing industry research funds.

A full list of grants is attached.

Further information: Gweneth Stablum 062-725485.

COMMONWEALTH   PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY  C. I. S.  a

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Project No Title of Project Grantee Grant

87/65 An assessment of the orange

roughy resource off the  coast around Tasmania

Tas Dept  of Sea

Fisheries

170,000

87/94 Investigation of two

techniques for aging  marine animals

Uni of Tas 45,000

87/129 The abundance, distribution

movements and population  dynamics of orange roughy in  SE Australian waters.

CSIRO 500,000

87/131 Investigation of the

distribution, abundance and  biology of orange roughy in  mid-slope waters off and  adjacent to NSW

NSW Dept  of Agric

30,000

Continuing Projects

Project No Title of Projects Grantee Grant

83/66 Fish oil and coronary

heart disease

CSIRO 87,199

86/39 Western Bass Strait trawl

fishery assessment

Vic Dept  of Cons.,  Forests and  Lands

293,000

86/108 Surveys of seagrass beds

and juvenile prawn  populations along the Qld  coast - Bowen to Cairns  and Karumba to Cape York

Qld Dept  of Primary  Industries

41,100

86/141 Consultancy to investigate

FIRTA pearl oyster  research projects.

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