Current Research Projects

Examining relationships between the environment, society and aquaculture in Tasmania

The Aquaculture Environment Team undertakes a wide variety of research projects to better understand the Tasmanian coastal environment, society and the way they interact with salmon aquaculture.

For a list of our completed projects, click here.

For more information on our current projects please follow the links below.

This portfolio of projects involves support from, and collaboration with, a broad range of other agencies (including other research organisations, government, industry and funding bodies). Key amongst these are the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Tasmanian State Government (Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania [NRE, formerly DPIPWE] & the Tasmanian Environment Protection Authority [EPA]), Derwent Estuary Program, Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FDRC).

Salmon aquaculture: monitoring and management

Storm Bay Observing System

Seaweed solutions for sustainable aquaculture

Managing ecosystem interactions across differing environments: building flexibility and risk assurance into environmental management strategies

Salmon aquaculture: emerging environmental issues

Social license to operate for aquaculture

Understanding oxygen dynamics and the importance for benthic recovery in Macquarie Harbour

Salmon aquaculture: planning

Risk-based tools supporting consultation, planning and adaptive management for aquaculture, and other multiple-uses of the coastal waters of southern Tasmania.

Uptake of aquaculture waste by keystone reef species

BE CRC monitoring and assessing offshore/high energy production structures

Tasmania's Marine Atlas

Using stable isotopes to examine the potential for seaweed co-culture with salmon aquaculture in Tasmania (Honours project)

Asparagopsis bioregional project

Developing production systems for offshore kelp mariculture

Macquarie Harbour Oxygen Project (MHOP): enhancing oxygen levels at depth

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

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Taroona, Tasmania 7053 Australia

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