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Debbi Delaney

2025-06-20T09:45:59+10:00June 18th, 2025|

In 1975, the beach-cast seaweed industry was established on King Island, Tasmania, with the formation of Kelp Industries Pty Ltd. Beach-cast Southern Bull Kelp (Durvillaea potatorum) is collected from beaches, dried, and shipped offshore for alginate extraction and the [...]

Marisol Irías Mata

2025-03-11T15:23:57+11:00March 11th, 2025|

Offshore seaweed aquaculture presents significant opportunities to coexist with other aquaculture ventures (e.g., finfish farming) and offshore energy developments, thanks to its ability to attenuate hydrodynamic energy and reduce hazardous ocean conditions. However, current predictive models are limited, often [...]

Peter Osaigbovo

2024-10-17T09:45:11+11:00August 1st, 2024|

The salmon industry in Tasmania is economically significant, valued at over $1 billion AUD. This growth is partly due to the gains made from selectively breeding for desirable traits over the years. However, selective breeding for feed efficiency has [...]

Teresa Thorwarth

2024-11-11T15:42:22+11:00April 29th, 2024|

Canopies of seaweed, as formed in seaweed aquaculture, have the potential to attenuate hydrodynamic energy from waves and currents by exerting drag forces on the water column and thereby may offer co-benefits to adjacently located marine infrastructure such as [...]

Atshaya Sundararajan

2024-06-14T13:39:36+10:00May 29th, 2023|

The Tasmanian Atlantic salmon industry is facing increasing challenges due to the impacts of climate change, these pose significant threats to local industry as well as to global aquaculture. Sub-optimum water temperature and dissolved oxygen are the two major factors [...]

Jessica Roach

2025-05-22T15:39:46+10:00May 10th, 2023|

The objective of this project (2.21.003) is to provide fundamental information needed to further develop a Durvillaea (Bull Kelp) aquaculture industry in New Zealand. This project will be primarily focus on the endemic species D. poha and D. antarctica. [...]

Vincent Yap

2025-05-22T15:35:21+10:00April 20th, 2023|

The Australian seaweed industry is currently limited despite an increasing demand for seaweed products. One product of high demand is alginate-saturated kelp which is utilised by agricultural, food, medicinal and pharmaceutical companies. Because of low local production, most of [...]

Brianne Lyall

2024-08-13T10:43:12+10:00April 20th, 2023|

Poor skeletal health poses a risk to fish welfare and performance, particularly in physically demanding offshore and high energy farming environments, where the finfish aquaculture industry are actively planning to expand. For fish to survive and thrive in these environments [...]

Leteisha Prescott

2025-03-12T18:35:37+11:00April 20th, 2023|

Recently, New Zealand King salmon aquaculture has proposed to move their salmon farming to offshore sites. This means the salmon, which have been genetically selected for current farming conditions, will be exposed to high energy environments. This PhD project, [...]

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