Project number: 2022-196
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $1,000,000.00
Principal Investigator: Alex Lloyd
Organisation: CRC for Solving Antimicrobial Resistance in Agribusiness, Food, and Environments (SAAFE Ltd)
Project start/end date: 25 May 2023 - 30 May 2033
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Vaccine
Disease
Aquaculture
Animal Welfare

Need

FRDC has obtained Board approval FRDC Board Meeting # 194, 24 November 2022) to become a member of CRC SAAFE and investment up to $1.0 million. This project is needed to manage the FRDC investment that will be comprised of investments seafood related projects. Conducting projects within CRC SAAFE will provide linkages to additional resources, expertise and knowledge sharing that will improve project outputs and foster national collaboration in addition to that currently provided by the FRDC. This will include the research and industry participants that are partners of CRC SAAFE.

Objectives

1. Best practice AMR mitigation and management in the seafood industry and the aquatic environment.
2. Improved biosecurity and animal welfare through development of vaccines to minimise use of antibiotics.

Related research

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research
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-087
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Macquarie Harbour oxygenation trial

1. Develop plume model and run scenarios to inform injection depth, flow volume, concentration, and distribution of injection points for oxygenation trials.
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-082
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics 2022

1. To maintain and improve the data base of production, gross value of production and trade statistics for the Australian fishing industry, including aquaculture.
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES