ACIAR AQUACULTURE RESEARCH PROJECTS

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1. To develop farm-level site selection criteria based on physical, biological and chemical requirements for pond-based culture.
   
2. To identify and describe environmental and management-based risk factors that are currently limiting productivity in Australian farms and to incorporate this knowledge into revisions of current regional aquaculture planning and mapping strategies
   
3. To develop a land classification scheme and accompanying land capability maps as tools for sustainable and strategic development of land-based aquaculture in Indonesia.
   
4. To develop a coastal aquaculture classification scheme for seacage and land-based aquaculture by combining and integrating the findings from this project and those of AICAR Project FIS/2003/027) on Planning for Environmentally Sustainable Tropical Finfish Culture.
   
5. To enhance research capacity of participating agencies through training and further development of spatial information technology and its application.

1. Establish a database detailing the environmental effects of finfish cages in Indonesian and Australian locations, by data mining and by direct measurement.
   
2. Adapt/develop an appropriate model to determine carrying capacity of tropical marine coasts for fish cage culture.
   
3. To develop a coastal aquaculture classification scheme for seacage and land-base aquaculture by combining and integrating the findings from this project and those of ACIAR Project Land capability assessment and classification for sustainable pond-based, aquaculture systems (FIS 2002/076).
   
4. Facilitate adoption of project outputs by Indonesian agencies.