Projects
Cumulative impacts assessment tool
Project scope: Australian Aquaculture
Recognition: FRDC funding partner
Project participants: Australian Aquaculture Industry, CSIRO, FRDC, Oceanomics
Year: 2018 - current
Outcomes:
1 Identify the risks of multiple actions or impacts on the environment and social values of a marine production matrix in Australian waters.
2 Develop a risk assessment tool that can be utilised by the public realm (governments at all levels, NFPS, community) to better understand the complexities of regional marine waters and user impacts to maximise current and future economic, social and environmental benefits. To do this requires identification of valued environmental and social components first, whereby such components are characterised, from this a framework is build on each valued component.
Subject matter experts - Biosecurity lead auditing
Project scope: Australian Aquaculture
Recognition: FRDC and DAWE
Project participants: Swinburne University, DAWE and Industry
Year: 2019
Developed educational resources for lead auditor course specifically for Biosecurity auditing, run by Swinburne University.
global seafood alliance - Humane slaughter Tilapia
Project Scope: Tilapia electric stunning trial
Recognition: Open philanthropy project, Global seafood alliance, Ace Aquatec and Smart Aqua
Year: 2021-2022
Commercial research and development project to determine feasibility of electric stunning in comparison to hypothermic shock and its impact on animal welfare during time of slaughter.
global seafood alliance - animal welfare
Project Scope: Multi-species and multi-system welfare education modules
Recognition: Open philanthropy project and Global seafood alliance
Year: 2020-2022
Developed educational resources - open source for The Responsible Centre for Seafood. Including modules for different farming systems, to be used across industries.
Unmanned aerial vehicles -
Project Scope: Prawn farms
Recognition: FRDC and Australian Prawn Farmers Association
Partner: Aquaenology & Carson Fisk
Year: 2021- current
Development of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle demonstration model for Australian prawn farms for collection of water samples, sensor data collection and image collection and analysis
auditing
Third party auditing of:
A+ PLUS program - New Zealand (current): A Plus New Zealand Sustainable Aquaculture Sustainable aquaculture management framework (aplusaquaculture.nz)
Sustainably farmed Barramundi certification (current): About | Australian Barramundi
ABFA Quality standard (current)
wash in aquaculture and fisheries
Subject matter expert in WASH protocols in Aquaculture - World Bank Group
Year: 2020-2021
Scope: Sub-saharan Africa and SE Asia
Link: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Fisheries and Aquaculture : Guidance Note (worldbank.org)
Worldfish Research Quality
Development and implementation of research ethics and quality management systems
Year: 2020 - current
aquaculture standards development
Technical input into standards development and operational manuals
Vaccine development and trials
We assist with the development of autogenous vaccines, along with other research providers. Autogenous vaccines are those that are tailor made to suit your farm or farming region.
The development of vaccines can be brought together with a passive surveillance program in a preventative health management strategy.
