Stay up to date with the latest publications from Southern Rocklobster Limited.
The list below details all of the research and development projects that Southern Rocklobster Limited has administered since the company's inception. All public final reports are accessible by clicking the relevant hyperlinks. Final reports are not available for current projects or projects with intellectual property restriction but may be available on request.
If you are a member of Southern Rocklobster Limited, please contact the Executive Officer for access to IP restricted reports.
| Project Number | Organisation | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | University of Tasmania | Supply risk of bait in Australia’s Southern Rock Lobster Fishery | View Report |
| 2017-224 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Southern Rock Lobster Clean Green program, revision, digitisation & extension across the supply chain | |
| 2017-082 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Ensuring monitoring and management of bycatch in Southern Rock Lobster fisheries is best practice | |
| 2017-086 | Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Taroona | Improved risk management of paralytic shellfish toxins in Southern Rock Lobster | |
| 2017-051 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Seafood CRC: Extending biotoxin capability and research in Australia through development of an experimental biotoxin contamination facility to target industry relevant issues | |
| 2017-013 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rebuilding Southern Rock Lobster stocks on the east coast of Tasmania: informing options for management | |
| 2016-502 | Belinda Yaxley | Conducting a gap analysis of Southern Rock Lobster and Australian Barramundi Farmer Association industry accreditations against the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative benchmarking scheme | |
| 2016-410 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Southern Rock Lobster Planning and Management for a National Research Development & Extension (RD&E) Program | |
| 2016-258 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Assessing the efficiency of alternative pot designs for the Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fishery | |
| 2016-257 | Honey and Fox Pty Ltd | Implementing and evaluating the Australian Seafood Trade Agenda 2016 - 2018 - Seafood Trade Advisory Group (STAG) | |
| 2016-235 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Improving post-harvest survival of live held Southern Rock Lobster | |
| 2016-228 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SRL IPA: Traceability Systems for Wild Caught Lobster, via Sense-T and Pathways to Market | |
| 2016-208 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Waste to profit in urchin fisheries: developing business opportunities to ensure fishery sustainability and safeguard reef dependent fisheries from destructive urchin grazing | |
| 2016-177 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Phase 2: Traceability Systems for Wild Caught Lobster, via Sense-T and Pathways to Market | |
| 2016-055 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Field trials to experimentally test if alternative sea lion excluder devices (SLEDs) adequately prevent Australian sea lions from entering rock lobster pots | |
| 2016-005 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | eSAMarine – phase 1: the first step towards an operational now-cast/forecast ocean prediction system for Southern Australia | |
| 2015-212 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | SafeFish - research to support food safety, trade and market access | |
| 2015-034 | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) | Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) reports 2016, and further development of the SAFS production and dissemination system | |
| 2015-025 | Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus | Patterns of interaction between habitat and oceanographic variables affecting the connectivity and productivity of invertebrate fisheries | |
| 2014-726 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SCRC: Measuring condition of lobsters to improve management of harvesting around periods of high transport mortality | |
| 2014-725 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Seafood CRC: dynamics of growth in translocated lobsters | View Report |
| 2014-702 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Seafood CRC: Southern Rock Lobster IPA: informing spatial and temporal management of the South Australian Northern Zone Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fishery | View Report |
| 2014-030.20 | Koopman Family Trust | Mapping fisheries data used to support Status of Key Australian Fish Stocks Reports | View Report |
| 2014-030 | Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) | Status of key Australian fish stocks (SAFS) reports 2014 and beyond | |
| 2014-025 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Developing cost-effective industry based techniques for monitoring puerulus settlement in all conditions: Phase 2 | |
| 2014-011 | Southern Cross University (SCU) Lismore Campus | Direct age determination with validation for commercially important Australian lobster and crab species (western, eastern, southern and ornate rock lobsters, and crystal, Tasmanian giant and mud crabs) | View Report |
| 2013-749.40 | Daxue Consulting | SCRC: Understanding the market positioning opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster in China (Joint Aust/NZ) | |
| 2013-749.30 | Seafood CRC Company Ltd | SCRC: Understanding the market positioning opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster in China (Joint Aust/NZ) Travel & Expenses | |
| 2013-749.20 | Honey and Fox Pty Ltd | Seafood CRC: understanding the market positioning opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster (SRL) in China | |
| 2013-749.10 | Seafood CRC Company Ltd | SCRC: Understanding the market positioning opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster in China SRL Expenses | |
| 2013-749 | Seafood CRC Company Ltd | Seafood CRC: understanding the market positioning opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster (SRL) in China | |
| 2013-748.40 | Seafood CRC Company Ltd | Seafood CRC: Improved understanding of economics in fisheries harvest strategies | |
| 2013-714.10 | Tasmanian Abalone Council Ltd | SCRC: Establishing improved trade access and market development for Australia's Abalone and Rocklobster to China - Project Officer | |
| 2013-713 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Seafood CRC: Understanding and reducing the risk of paralytic shellfish toxins in Southern Rock Lobster | View Report |
| 2013-232 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | SRL IPA: Rocklobster Trans Tasman cooperation workshop | |
| 2012-765 | Rural Directions | Seafood CRC: Southern Rock Lobster clean Green Business Framework | |
| 2012-761 | Gill Consulting | Seafood CRC: China trade project officer | |
| 2012-741.20 | Seafood CRC Company Ltd | SCRC: Market diversification opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster | |
| 2012-741.10 | Mckinna Et Al Pty Ltd | SCRC: Market diversification opportunities for Southern Rock Lobster (McKinna) | |
| 2012-741 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Seafood CRC: market diversification opportunities for Southern Rocklobster | |
| 2012-715 | Grey Group | Seafood CRC: preliminary investigation into alternative markets in Asia for Southern Rocklobster | |
| 2012-711.01 | Seafood CRC Company Ltd | SCRC: FRDC/CRC Participants' Workshop on Procedures for Collecting Funds for Marketing and Promotion | |
| 2012-705 | China Policy | Seafood CRC: improving trade and market access to the People's republic of China for Australian rocklobster and abalone industries | |
| 2012-704 | Kreab Gavin Anderson | Seafood CRC: Industry strategies to support intergovernmental negotiations concerning the export of Australian Rocklobster and Abalone to China | |
| 2012-511.01 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Southern Rock Lobster IPA: communications and extension in the Southern Rock Lobster fishery | |
| 2012-511 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Southern Rock Lobster IPA: communications and extension in the Southern Rock Lobster fishery | View Report |
| 2012-008.01 | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) | Assessing the impact of marine seismic surveys on southeast Australian fisheries | |
| 2012-008 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Assessing the impact of marine seismic surveys on southeast Australian scallop and lobster fisheries | View Report |
| 2011-744 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Seafood CRC: commercialising translocation of southern rock lobster | |
| 2011-402.01 | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) | People development program: Enabling productivity and efficiency gains in Australian rock lobster fisheries – the 2011 trans-Tasman 7th Rock Lobster Congress. | |
| 2011-402 | New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council Ltd | People development program: Enabling productivity and efficiency gains in Australian rock lobster fisheries – the 2011 trans-Tasman 7th Rock Lobster Congress. | View Report |
| 2011-250 | South Eastern Professional Fishermen's Association Inc (SEPFA) | Southern Rock Lobster IPA: Assessing functionality and suitability of the iPhone application 'Deckhand' for on-board electronic data capture in Southern Australian Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fisheries | View Report |
| 2011-072 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | SRL IPA: assessing the feasibility of spatial management in the South Australian Northern Zone Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fishery | View Report |
| 2011-020 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SRL IPA: Developing cost-effective industry based techniques for monitoring puerulus settlement in all conditions: trials in southern and western Tasmania | View Report |
| 2011-020 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SRL IPA: Developing cost-effective industry based techniques for monitoring puerulus settlement in all conditions: trials in southern and western Tasmania | View Report |
| 2010-740 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SCRC: AS-CRC PDRF Project - Fisheries Economist | |
| 2010-736 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Seafood CRC: development of formulated diets for cultured abalone | |
| 2010-714 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SCRC: The Future Harvest Master Class | |
| 2010-708 | University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) | SCRC: International and Domestic Business PDRS | |
| 2010-506 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | FRDC-DCCEE: adaptive management of temperate reefs to minimise effects of climate change: developing new effective approaches for ecological monitoring and predictive modelling | View Report |
| 2010-402.01 | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) | Southern Rocklobster National RD&E Planning and Management | |
| 2010-402 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | SRL IPA: Southern Rocklobster National RD&E planning and management | View Report |
| 2010-016 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Assessing the impacts of gillnetting in Tasmania: implications for by-catch and biodiversity | View Report |
| 2009-762 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SCRC: PhD 5.04 Assessing the costs and benefits of changing fishing practices in the southern rock lobster fishery (Dr Bridget Green; Student Tim Emery) | View Report |
| 2009-756 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | SCRC: PhD : Managing fisheries to maximise profits by understanding and reducing variable costs of fishing | |
| 2009-714.20 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Seafood CRC: bioeconomic decision support tools for Southern Rock Lobster | |
| 2009-223 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Development of an Industry Partnership Agreement for the Southern Rocklobster Industry | |
| 2009-058 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Tactical Research Fund: managing inshore stocks of southern rock lobster for a sustainable fishery | View Report |
| 2009-047 | Department of Economic Development Jobs Transport and Resources (DEDJTR) | Sustainability of the rock lobster resource in south-eastern Australia in a changing environment: implications for assessment and management | View Report |
| 2009-016 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: Assessment of management options to minimise formation of ‘barrens’ habitat by the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania - Supplementary Funding | |
| 2008-003 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Standardising data collection across the southern rock lobster fisheries of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania | |
| 2007-302 | Shearwater Consulting Pty Ltd | 5th National Rocklobster Congress - growing the future | View Report |
| 2007-228 | Barneveld Nutrition Pty Ltd | Rock Lobster Propagation Subprogram: Facilitated development and coordination of research towards the commercial propagation of rock lobsters in Australia | |
| 2007-045 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: assessment of management options to minimise formation of ‘barrens’ habitat by the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania | View Report |
| 2006-241 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Implement and establish the USA market development platform to enable trade of certified clean green Australian Southern Rocklobster – extension of FRDC project 2006/216 | |
| 2006-235.30 | Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QLD) | Rock Lobster Propagation Subprogram: Commercially viable production of tropical rock lobster (Panulirus ornatus) puerulus from eggs. QDPI | |
| 2006-235 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rocklobster Propagation Subprogram: commercially viable production of temperate rocklobster (Jasus spp.) puerulus from eggs | |
| 2006-220.01 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Seafood CRC: Improving spatial management of southern rock lobster fisheries to improve yield, value and sustainability | |
| 2006-220.01 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Seafood CRC: Improving spatial management of southern rock lobster fisheries to improve yield, value and sustainability | |
| 2006-220 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Seafood CRC: Spatial management of southern rock lobster fisheries to improve yield, value and sustainability | View Report |
| 2006-216.20 | Australian Business Ltd | Seafood CRC: USA market development project: establishing the USA market requirements | |
| 2006-216.01 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Seafood CRC: Development of supply chain, distribution and communication tools to support entry of Australian southern rocklobster into the super-premium-fine-dining sector in the USA | |
| 2006-216 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Seafood CRC: Development of supply chain, distribution and communication tools to support entry of Australian southern rocklobster into the super-premium-fine-dining sector in the USA | |
| 2006-215.01 | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) | Seafood CRC: Southern rocklobster industry research and development planning, implementation and extension | |
| 2006-215 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Seafood CRC: southern rocklobster industry research and development planning, implementation and extension | |
| 2006-214.01 | Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) | Improving supply chain practices and processes to increase the value of southern rocklobster | |
| 2006-210 | Curtin University | Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: facilitation, administration and promotion | |
| 2005-058.01 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Interactions of the South Australian southern rock lobster and Commonwealth southern shark fisheries with seals and sealions | |
| 2004-251 | Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL) | Identification of new market opportunities for southern rock lobster exports | |
| 2004-239 | Barneveld Nutrition Pty Ltd | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption | View Report |
| 2003-241 | Curtin University | Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption | |
| 2003-212 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: propagation of southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) in Tasmania | |
| 2002-313 | South Australian Rock Lobster Advisory Council (SARLAC) | Southern rock lobster R&D plan and subprogram development | |
| 2002-238 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: quantification of shell hardness in southern rock lobster | |
| 2001-094 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: health assurance for southern rock lobsters | |
| 2000-250 | Curtin University | Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: facilitation, administration and promotion | |
| 2005-217 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: the feasibility of translocating rock lobsters in Tasmania for increasing yield | View Report |
| 2005-077 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | 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 | View Report |
| 2004-049 | Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA | The effects of western rock lobster fishing on the deepwater ecosystems off the west coast of Western Australia | View Report |
| 2004-037 | Department of Economic Development Jobs Transport and Resources (DEDJTR) | Spatial modelling and assessment of the Victorian southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fishery | View Report |
| 1999-315 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: propagation techniques | |
| 2003-242 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: value-adding the southern rock lobster fishery -optimising flesh quality of under-valued large lobsters for the sashimi market | View Report |
| 1999-314 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: preliminary investigation towards ongrowing puerulus to enhance rock lobster stocks while providing animals for commercial culture | |
| 2002-007 | CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart | Larval transport and recruitment processes of southern rock lobster | View Report |
| 2001-211 | Barneveld Nutrition Pty Ltd | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption | View Report |
| 2001-072 | Abalone Industry Association Of SA Inc | Development of options for improving the planning and managing of abalone and southern rock lobster wild catch R&D | View Report |
| 2001-070 | Department of Economic Development Jobs Transport and Resources (DEDJTR) | Can production in the southern rock lobster fishery be improved? Linking juvenile growth, survival and density dependence to sustainable yield | View Report |
| 2000-251 | University of Western Australia (UWA) | Rock Lobster Post Harvest Subprogram: development of a method for alleviating leg loss during post-harvest handling of rock lobsters | View Report |
| 2000-212 | CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: the nutrition of juvenile and adult lobsters to optimise survival, growth and condition | View Report |
| 2000-211 | University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus | Rock Lobster Enhancement and Aquaculture Subprogram: investigation of tail fan damage in live-held adult rock lobsters | View Report |
| 2000-123 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Risk analysis and sustainability of the southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) resources in SA | View Report |
| 1998-362 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Workshop on post settlement processes affecting the southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) in southern Australia | View Report |
| 1994-134.05 | Aquasearch | ACThe bio-economic development of long term holding systems and aquaculture of southern rock lobster | |
| 1998-341 | South Australian Rock Lobster Advisory Council (SARLAC) | 3rd International Lobster Congress | View Report |
| 1993-087 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Population dynamics of southern rock lobster in SA waters | |
| 1998-150 | University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus | Development and assessment of methods to reduce the predation of pot-caught southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) by maori octopus (Octopus maorum) | View Report |
| 1993-086 | South Australian Rock Lobster Advisory Council (SARLAC) | Population dynamics of southern rock lobster in SA waters | |
| 1998-103 | CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart | Synthesis of existing data on the early life history of southern Australian finfish | View Report |
| 1990-007 | Department of Primary Industries Parks Water and Environment (DPIPWE) Hobart | Assessment of spatial and temporal variation in puerulus settlement of the southern rock lobster | View Report |
| 1997-101 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Assessment of broad-scale exploitation rates and biomass estimates for the Tasmanian southern rock lobster fishery | View Report |
| 1996-160 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Condition and its assessment in the southern rock lobster. Field application of the techniques for condition assessment developed in the laboratory | View Report |
| 1975-022 | Department of Primary Industries Parks Water and Environment (DPIPWE) Hobart | Determination of population parameters for yield calculations in the Tasmanian southern rock lobster fishery | |
| 1988-041 | Department of Primary Industries Parks Water and Environment (DPIPWE) Hobart | Pilot study of larval recruitment and genetic variation of southern rock lobster populations | |
| 1995-018 | Department of Economic Development Jobs Transport and Resources (DEDJTR) | Southern rock lobster recruitment study | View Report |
| 1972-029 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Studies of the western population of the southern rock lobster in the south-east region of South Australia | |
| 1995-017 | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Condition and its assessment in the southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii). Assessment of condition indices and moult staging techniques | View Report |
| 1971-018 | Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA | Preliminary investigation of the south-east coast of WA to determine the possibility for the development of a fishery on southern rock lobster |