The Aboriginal Sea Company’s (ASC) and Skills Insight partnership is off to a great start in 2025, launching with a successful two-day workshop under the Community-Based Aquaculture Training (CBATT) Project. The workshop brought together ASC, Skills Insight and key community stakeholders to collaborate on developing culturally appropriate aquaculture training tools [...]
A series of workshops for Native Title holders, to be held in coastal locations between Shark Bay and Wyndham, will get underway from tomorrow. Funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) and Western Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), the first of the [...]
Northern Australian-grown Black Lip Rock Oysters could be on the menu by next Christmas, thanks to a Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia-funded project, which has officially wrapped up in northern Western Australia. Around 700,000 oysters have been transferred from the CRCNA and the Western Australia Department of Primary Industries [...]
Northern Australia officially has its own “brand” of Tropical Rock Oysters – with the native Blacklip Rock Oyster (Saccostrea echinata) formally added to the Australian fish name database. The application to the Australian Fish Names Committee was made by researchers from the Northern Territory Government’s Darwin Aquaculture Centre (DAC) and [...]
A new CRCNA research collaboration seeking to give the north’s prawn industry a biosecurity boost has been launched at James Cook University’s Bebegu Yumba campus in Townsville. The three-year, $809,000 R & D venture is a collaboration between the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA), JCU, the Fisheries [...]
A new aquaculture projects launched today in northern Western Australia is promising to deliver a world-first $160m p.a. industry, exporting 1,100 tonnes of sustainable Australian grown Tropical Rock Lobster and creating thousands of jobs in the next decade. Two Australian companies, Ornatas and Maxima, have joined forces as part of a [...]
More than a billion dollars in capital investment could be unlocked for new agricultural development across the Northern Territory if action is taken to de-risk the investment landscape – according to a new report by the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA). The De-risking, brokering and prioritising agricultural [...]
The CRCNA’s Improving Biosecurity in Northern Australian prawn aquaculture project, completed by researchers from James Cook University’s Aquaculture department, has delivered the most comprehensive multi-pathogen survey ever completed of Australian Prawn Farming. During the past 2 years, the JCU AquaPATH laboratory team completed over 25,000 tests, to international testing standards, to [...]
A Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA) aspirations to establish a commercial Tropical Rock Oyster industry in Northern Australia has taken a step forward today, with more than 30,000 hatchery-grown spat (juvenile oysters) transferred to new trial sites off the Karratha coast, in northern Western Australia. Project partners, [...]