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 [...]
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 [...]
Biosecurity across Northern Australia’s prawn aquaculture industry will be under the microscope in the latest Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project announced today. Researchers from James Cook University (JCU) and industry partner the Australian Prawn Farmers’ Association (APFA) will conduct one of the most comprehensive audits of [...]