The Seafood CRC has provided a number of exciting opportunities for our industry participants. The industry bursaries awarded since 2007 are:
- 2008/707 - 2008 WERA and Shellfish Conference
- 2008/724 - 2008 European Seafood Exposition
- 2008/728 – 2008 Seafood Industry Leadership Program
- 2008/784 – Shellfish to the USA
- 2009/705 - 2009 Seafood Industry Leadership Program
- 2010/712 - 2010 Seafood Industry Leadership Program
- 2010/713 – Market Intelligence Study Tour, Shanghai, China
- 2010/717 – The Australian Rural Leadership Foundation’s Inaugral TRAILblazer Program
- 2010/732 – The Australian National Business School/University of Western Australia “Business in Asia”, MBA Component, Penang, Malaysia
- 2010/733 – Operation Europe
- 2010/746 – Monash University Agribusiness Executive Program
- 2010/760 – Market Intelligence Study Tour, Beijing, China
- 2011/704 - 2011 Seafood Industry Leadership Program
- 2011/709 – Fish Breeders Round Table Meeting, Norway
- 2011/710 – Study Tour of Marine Harvest Operations, Scotland
- 2011/ 759 – Visiting Existing Seriola Sea Cage Operations in Japan
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Visiting Existing Seriola Seacage Operations in Japan |
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• Project Number – 2011/759
• Start Date – 15th November 2011
• End Date – 1st December 2011
• Principal Investigators – Rowan Kleindienst and Erica Starling
• CRC Participant End User – Western Australian Fishing Industry Council and Clean Seas Tuna
About the Project
Rowan and Erica from Indian Ocean Fresh Pty Ltd will visit a Seriola sp seacage operation in southern Japan during November 2011. Japanese Amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata) farming has been developed successfully on a commercial scale in Japan and there are likely to be similarities in production issues especially in light of similar water temperatures in southern Japan with Western Australia.
As Indian Ocean Fresh is a newly emerging Yellowtail Kingfish producer in Western Australia, this bursary will allow Erica and Rowan to view much larger scale Yellowtail farms and understand how they are managed and how operations are conducted. Specific areas of interest for Erica and Rowan include growth rates and nutritional issues, fish health issues and disease management, parasite management and harvesting practices.
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Study Tour of Marine Harvest Operations, Scotland |
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• Project Number – 2011/710
• Start Date – 9th May 2011
• End Date – 20th May 2011
• Principal Investigator – Tony Octoman and Marcus Stehr
• CRC Participant End User – Clean Seas Tuna
About the Project
This bursary's activity will take the form of a study based tour of Marine Harvest's (MH) marine operations in Scotland to visit the Fort William salmon operation. The intention of the visit is to gather and exchange knowledge in feed management, net management including antifouling, net changing and in situ net cleaning and fish health management (peroxide bathing techniques including well boat and tarpaulin treatments, vaccine development and seal management). Marcus and Tony will also explore R&D farm set up and management, fallowing and stock rotation planning and harvest processes.
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Fish Breeders Round Table Meeting, Norway |
Completed Project
• Project Number – 2011/709
• Start Date – 31st August 2011
• End Date – 13th September 2011
• Principal Investigator – Dr Brad Evans
• CRC Participant End User – Tasmanian Salmonid Growers Association
About the Project
Dr Evans was awarded an industry bursary to attend the Fish Breeders' Round Table which is an international forum that is held every four years in Norway, where knowledge and experience is exchanged between fish breeding researchers and those involved in applied genetic improvement work on a commercial basis.
Through this activity, Dr Evans was able to improve knowledge of alternate approaches to breeding problems and to understand the commercial structure of breeding companies, hatcheries and on-growers in other parts of the world. He also gave an international presentation of the current status of the Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon Selective Breeding Program and obtained feedback from world leaders on the current strategies for genetic improvement in Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon. Dr Evans was also able to spend time in the offices and field stations of AquGen and Marine Harvest in Norway, and Landcatch Natural Selection in Scotland.
A copy of the bursary report is available from the CRC Bookshop
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2011 National Seafood Industry Leadership Program |
Completed Project
• Project Number – 2011/704
• Start Date – 30th March 2011
• End Date – 30th November 2011
• Principal Investigator – Ms Emily Mantilla
• CRC Participant End User – Western Australian Fishing Industry Council, Tasmanian Seafoods and Australian Prawn Farmers Association
About the Project
The CRC is all about capacity building within the CRC participants and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation's Seafood Leadership Program enables the opportunity to invest in people who are keen to show their leadership potential.
Investing in leadership and the associated networks and cross stakeholder understanding is seen as vitally important for all sectors to be able to contribute to debate, drive change and address challenges in order to enable the Seafood CRC and the industry to reach its potential.
Three CRC industry participants were supported to attend the 2011 program. They were Ashley Oliver (Western Australia Fishing Industry Council), William Bowman (Tasmanian Seafoods) and Alistair Dick (Australian Prawn Farmers Association)
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