Summaries of completed MISA projects
1. Aquaculture Innovation
1.1 Reduction of Pacific oyster mortality by improving farming & processing techniques in South Australia.
1.2 Experimental production of tetraploid oysters for use as broodstock for commercial hatchery production of triploids
2. Biosecurity
2.1 Development of gene probes for introduced marine pest species (Musculista senhousia, Corbula gibba, Sabella spallanzanii).
2.2 Caulerpa taxifolia – 2007 Survey of current distribution and high risk areas.
2.3 Hazard assessment of marine pests in relation to Australian aquaculture industries.
2.4 Temperature and salinity tolerances of priority marine pests.
3. Ecosystem Services
3.1 Assessment of the implications of interactions between fur seals and sea lions and the southern rock lobster and gillnet sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) in South Australia.
3.2 Assessment of pup production and maternal investment strategies of the Australian sea lion Neophoca cinerea at Dangerous Reef in the 2006-07 breeding season.
3.3 A population monitoring and research program to assist management of the Australian sea lion population at Seal Bay Conservation Park, Kangaroo Island
3.4 A catalogue of shallow-water sponges from the Investigator Islands, South Australia.
3.5 Foraging ecology and diet analysis of Australian sea lions
3.6 Developing population monitoring protocols for Australian sea lions
3.7 What is causing the decline of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) on Granite Island, South Australia?
4. Product Quality & Value Adding
4.1 Optimising at-sea post-harvest handling procedures for the Australian sardine (Sardinops sagax).
4.2 Nutritional profiles of baitfish 3: effects of harvest and post-harvest processes on quality of local baitfish for feeding SBT.
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