A key objective of the FDP was to “make the benefits of the research and/or development initiatives available to the whole industry”. This website provides an summary of the methodology and results of the projects completed. Additional information can be obtained by contacting any regional office of the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture.
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| # | Proponent | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R & C Enterprises Port de Grave | Refrigerated Spray & Air Chill system | The installation of an on board crab refrigerated seawater chill system. |
| 3 | Green Seafoods Winterton | Value-Added Production of Sea Urchin Roe for the Japanese Market | A specialist from Japan assisted the company in implementing grading and packaging standards. |
| 5 | Aqua Shell Processors Ltd. Cape Freels | Processing Discarded Crab Shell | New crab shell processing equipment incorporating “shell” cooking, de-watering, crushing, boiling and drying. |
| 7 | Polar Seafoods (Canada) Ltd. Corner Brook | Develop and Test-Market Value-Added Shrimp Products | Development and test-marketing of value-added shrimp products, including “Cold Water Shrimp Ring” and “Cold Water Shrimp au Gratin.” |
| 12 | Dept. of Biochemistry, MUN St. John’s | Chitosan Yield & Quality as affected by Varying Raw Materials | Study the quality of yield from local shrimp and crab shell as raw material for chitin/chitosan processing, which may act as a food preservative. |
| 17 | Newfoundland Aqua Products Inc. Ramea | Product Development and Marketing of Seaweed | Developing strategies to expand product line and increase market presence of seaweed products, including internet marketing, labelling, packaging and advertising. |
| 18 | Cape St. Mary’s Enterprises Witless Bay | Crabshell Crushing and Drying Plant | Crushing and drying crab and shrimp shells with a new dryer and wind knife blower to reduce operational costs and produce a better product. |
| 24 | Marinus Bio Resources Wesleyville | Live Harvesting, Blood Extraction and Marketing | A number of changes to provide for live fish capture and processing; improving the extraction of blood from live fish and marketing live fish. |
| 46 | Bell Island Ventures Inc. Bell Island | Sea Urchin Processing | In co-operation with a Japanese partner, develop technology, packaging and training related to specialized sea urchin roe products. |
| 55 | Newfoundland Seafood Market Council St. John’s | Market Development of Coldwater Shrimp | Development of a marketing program for coldwater shrimp including international customer research, advertising and promotional materials. |
| 59 | Marine Institute St. John’s | Pilot Scale production of Shrimp Silage | Examination of results from “ensiling” fish and shrimp waste materials, that is grinding the waste, adding an organic acid, and determining marketing opportunities. |
| 60 | Southern Labrador Development Association Red Bay, LB | Experimental Seafood Smoker | Assessing the viability of a seafood smoking operation for Red Bay, including methods, products, markets, costs and benefits. |
| 61 | Calvin Petten Coley’s Point | Installation of RSW System | Installing a refrigerated sea water system in a crab fishing vessel, including a comparative analysis of systems. |
| 63 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland and Labrador St. John’s | Develop Video for Shrimp-Onboard/Discharge handling | A video on shrimp handling onboard a vessel, featuring a tow, net haul back, onboard quality issues, stowage, and off-loading. |
| 64 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland and Labrador St. John’s | Develop Video for Crab-Onboard/Discharge handling | A video on crab onboard and discharge handling, showing pot dumping, onboard quality issues, stowage and off-loading. |
| 66 | Fish Harvesters’ Resource Centre St. John’s | Research Non-Lethal Roe Extraction from Lumpfish | A literature search of non-lethal roe extraction methods, sea trials and analysis, and an investigation of possible uses for lumpfish carcasses. |
| 67 | Beothic Fish Processors Limited Valleyfield | Develop Markets in Mexico for Underutilized Species | Market exploration for various seafoods in Mexico, especially underutilized species, and including direct promotion to selected retailers. |
| 76 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland & Labrador and Fish Food & Allied Workers St. John’s | Deliver Shrimp Quality Improvement Workshop | Seminar series at 10 locations in the Province targeting quality improvements in the shrimp fishery from dockside handling to plant operations. |
| 84 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture South and West Coasts | Exploratory Fishing – Atlantic King Crab | Exploratory fishery for Atlantic King Crab in non-traditional areas off the south and west coast of the island over a 20 day charter. |
| 89 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland & Labrador and Fish Food & Allied Workers St. John’s | Snow Crab Quality Workshops | A series of one-day shrimp and snow crab quality workshop series involving harvesters, processors, handlers and truckers. |
| 103 | Grand Bank Sea Treasures Grand Bank | Product Development – Value Added Seafood | Reviewing the potential for secondary processing at Grand Bank, especially around mussels and shellfish, as well as improving market information. |
| 105 | Lower Trinity South Development Association Trinity Bay | Seaweed Biomass Assessment | An assessment of the biomass, with a literature review and a survey, to identify the potential for harvesting seaweed around Trinity Bay. |
| 120 | Eastern Fish Markets Carmanville | Silage Market Investigation | Investigating market opportunities for silage with specific companies, including providing new information. |
| 121 | Quality Bait Services Hr. Grace | Establish a Bait Manufacturing Operation | Establish a bait manufacturing plant to make bait from fish discards utilizing a patented process. |
| 122 | Atlantic Marine Products Inc. Clarenville | Investigate Export of Dressed Seal Skins | Investigate markets for seal pelts outside Canada, especially in Asia and Europe. |
| 123 | New Found Foods Inc. Portugal Cove | Market Development Initiatives for Value-Added Seafood | Develop label concepts, improve productivity in the plant, and generally refine various secondary fish products like mussels in sauce and salmon pastry. |
| 124 | Fogo Island Co-op Seldom | Market Exploration | Develop marketing opportunities for local seafood in The Peoples Republic of China. |
| 128 | Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Marine by-products workshop | To conduct a workshop on the usage of marine by-products. |
| 137 | Quinlan Brothers Bay de Verde | Crab & Shrimp Cook Water Extract | Refining equipment and processes to make concentrated stock from crab and shrimp cook water, in conjunction with a Japanese partner. |
| 149 | Higdon’s Seafoods Ltd.New Harbour | Marketing and Promotion of Value- Added Mussels | To expand the market for their line of frozen, vacuum-packed mussel products in United States Markets. |
| 151 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture St. John’s | Experimental Fishery – Porcupine Crab with Pots | Conducting exploratory trials to develop a porcupine crab fishery involving major crab processor and major marketer. |
| 155 | FFAW St. John’s | Auction System Feasibility Study | To evaluate an auction system for the lobster fishery on the West and Southwest coasts. |
| 161 | Atlantic Shell Fish Inc. Clarenville | Quality Improvement Imitation Crab | Research, development and training to improve the quality characteristics of surimi products. |
| 166 | Shawmut Fisheries Witless Bay | Crab Liver Extraction | The extraction, packaging and review of crab livers for a potential market in Japan. |
| 181 | Marine Institute Alaska | Design and Test a Collapsible Cod Trap | Exploration of fishery in Alaska, especially a collapsible cod trap used by small vessels. |
| 184 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Testing a new whelk pot design | A new whelk pot design was tested on The Great Northern Peninsula and in White Bay. |
| 185 | All Material Product Inc. (AMPI) Isle aux Morts | Harvesting/Processing/Marketing of Seaweed | To examine the development of several new products, like seaweed in mustard sauce and a new dog biscuit. |
| 194 | Green Seafoods Winterton | Produce Secondary & Value-Added Mussel/Crab Products | To develop value-added products from mussels and underutilized crab species like toad, rock and spiny crab. |
| 198 | Fish Harvesters’ Resource Centre St. John’s | Produce Series of TV Programs “The Fishery Now” | To produce 13 half-hour television shows called “The Fishery Now” to be shown on a local television network. |
| 204 | MUN St. John’s | Health Benefits of Seal Oil | To conduct research into the health benefits of sea oil, particularly as it relates to inflammatory diseases. |
| 206 | Gambo-Indian Bay Development Association | Sea urchin roe development | To review development possibilities for sea urchin roe. |
| 221 | Eric Banfield Bay L’Argent | Herring Wing Trap Harvest | To demonstrate the use of a herring wing trap as an alternative to traditional methods of harvesting herring in Fortune Bay. |
| 233 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture Labrador | Shrimp Beam Trawl Survey | To demonstrate the use of beam trawl and pot technology for shrimp along the South and North Labrador coast. |
| 241 | Atlantic Marine products Inc. Catalina | Equipment Purchase for Tannery | The purchase of two “wet drums” to wash seal pelts for final tanning and to buy a buffing machine used to refine the leather side of the finished tanned pelt. |
| 248 | Carino Ltd. Dildo South | Secondary Processing of Seal Skins | Purchase and installation of a pelt shaving machine and training staff on its use. |
| 249 | Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John’s | Incorporation of Omega-3 Fatty Acids into Egg Yolks | To conduct experiments with seal oil and laying hens to determine effect of seal oil on egg product qualities. |
| 250 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture St. John’s | 9 Cod Grow-Out Projects for 2000/01 | To conduct nine cod grow-out projects through 2000-2001 to address problems that currently hinder development. |
| 251 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland & Labrador St. John’s | Cod Grading Pilot Project | A pilot project to review an acceptable commercial dockside grading system, including the impact of water temperature and developing a “cod quality” handbook. |
| 252 | Fisheriers Association of Newfoundland and Labrador St. John’s | Cod Quality Improvement Workshop | A seminar series to identify quality issues related to the cod fishery, especially for harvesters, off-loading companies, truckers and fish plant personnel. |
| 260 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Southern Harbour and St. John’s | Awareness of Gillnet Environmental Impacts | To reduce the loss of gillnets and their damage to the oceans by informing fishers of their impact and demonstrating their destructiveness in a Placentia Bay survey. |
| 270 | Caboto Seafoods Ltd. | Market development for seal products | To conduct market investigation and development for seal products. |
| 273#1 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture Labrador | Toad Crab Exploratory Survey | An exploratory survey for toad crab along the Labrador coast to determine distribution, abundance and potential commercial catch rates. |
| 273#2 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture Labrador | Toad Crab Biological Study | A study to establish a size profile of the toad crab in the Labrador Straits area. |
| 275 | Burgeo Diversification Development Board South Coast | Sea Urchin Survey | A resource identification project for sea urchins along the South coast to see if sufficient quantities exist for a commercial harvest. |
| 279 | Marine Institute New Zealand/ Australia | Processing Workers’ Professionalization | A review of seafood processing workers professionalization models in Australia and New Zealand which could be used to help develop a suitable model in this Province. |
| 280 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Aspen Cove | Lobster By-Catch Reduction | To investigate various changes to existing rock crab pots to determine the best design and reduce lobster by-catch. |
| 281 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans La Scie | Shrimp Trawling & Snow Crab Resource | To determine if shrimp trawling results in injury or mortality to snow crab. |
| 282 | Green Seafoods Ltd. Winterton | Maximizing Value of Labour – Sea Urchin Processing | To introduce a 300 gram wooden tray for sea urchin packaging designed especially for the Japanese market. |
| 283 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Port de Grave and St. John’s | Newfoundland Snow Crab Fishery Conservation Harvesting & Video/Brochure | To develop a video and brochure on improving the handling and holding of live snow crab at sea. |
| 284 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada | Danish Net Seine Selectivity Port aux Basques | To determine the most effective codend mesh size to reduce the catch of small Greysole from the Danish Seine net. |
| 285 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Conne River | Impact of Catch and Release on Atlantic Salmon Stocks | To evaluate the impact of hook and release practices on Atlantic salmon stocks. |
| 286 | Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Western Region Initiatives #1 – Icelandic Scallop Survey #2 – Sea Urchin Survey |
Sea urchin, shrimp, Islandic scallop surveys and a mackerel reel technology transfer project will be conducted. |
| 288 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans St. John’s | Conservation Harvesting Technology – Videotape Library | A collection of some 150 video tapes on environmental awareness, conservation technology and related topics be prepared and placed in 18 locations around the Province. |
| 289 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans O’Donnells, St. Mary’s Bay | Redfish Otter Trawl size Selectivity | To test the ability of the “Ex-it” system to reduce the catch of small fish in the redfish otter trawl. |
| 290 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Trout River | Reduction of cod By-Catch in 4R American Plaide Gillnets | To test the use of modified gillnets to reduce the cod by-catch in the 4R gillnet fishery. |
| 291 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada St. John’s | North Atlantic Conference on Responsible Fishing | To conduct a conference on responsible fishing in the North Atlantic including people from the rim countries. |
| 292 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Bay L’Argent, Fortune Bay | By-Catch Reduction in Shrimp Beam Trawls | To determine the impact on shrimp catches and by-catches when toggle and chains are lengthened on shrimp beam trawls. |
| 293 | Southern Labrador Development Association | American Eel Harvesting Pilot Program | To initiate and coordinate an American Eel Harvesting Pilot project in the Labrador Straits area. |
| 297 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Nipper’s Harbour | Turbot Otter Trawl Size Selectivity (<65′) | To test the use of small mesh in the forepart of a turbot otter trawl for its effectiveness in reducing the catch of small turbot. |
| 298 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Port de Grave | Shrimp Trawl Bottom Impact | To see if semi-midwater technology will reduce the impact of shrimp trawlines on the seabed and result in less fuel consumption. |
| 299 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Lumsden | Crab By-Catch Reduction in Turbot Gillnets | To test suspended turbot nets to see if they will reduce snow crab by-catch. |
| 300 | Bonaventure- English Hr. Dev. Association B. Bay/T. Bay | Seaweed Biomass Assessment | To complete a seaweed biomass survey around Trinity and Bonavista Bays to see if there is enough resource for a commercial harvest. |
| 302 | Dept.. of Fisheries and Aquaculture St. John’s | Purchase Kelp Harvesting/Drying Equipment | To assist in the expansion and further development of a kelp harvesting and processing operation in the Lamaline area. |
| 303 | Wood-Pick Enterprises Wareham | Market Development of Sea Cucumber | To develop markets for a new consumer pack of sea cucumber, a vacuum packed, frozen product designed especially for North American ethnic markets. |
| 305 | Marine Institute St. John’s | Design and Testing of Cod Pots (Phase ll) | To test a design of Alaskan cod pots and analyse suitability to local environments by conducting sea trials. |
| 307 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans St. John’s | Snow Crab Survivability | To compare the industry’s standard manner of returning discarded crabs to the ocean with that of alternative treatments. |
| 310 | Carino Ltd. | Seal product development | Upgrade Dildo South plant with seal oil processing facility. |
| 311 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Isle aux Morts | Impact of Marine Plant Harvesting on Resource | This project seeks to establish protocols for the sustainable harvest of marine plants like kelp in the Province. |
| 314 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Eastport, Bonavista Bay | Responsible Fishing Module for High Schools | To introduce the concept of “responsible fishing” to local high school students, based partly on a successful program in British Columbia. |
| 316 | Shoreline Offloading Ltd., Bonavista Bay | Sanitation of Fishing Vessels | To identify an efficient way to sanitize vessels that will contribute to improving the quality of raw material destined for processing and marketing. |
| 321 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland & Labrador | Cod Video Onboard and Discharge Handling | To develop a video on the onboard and discharge handling of seafood. |
| 330#1 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland & Labrador St. John’s | Snow Crab Quality Improvement Workshop | Continuation of initial series of seminars on snow crab including content on biology, harvesting, proper handling and storage. |
| 330#2 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland & Labrador St. John’s | Shrimp Quality Improvement Workshop | Continuation of initial series of seminars on shrimp including content on biology, harvesting, proper handling and storage. |
| 334 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans St. John’s | Interactions in the Turbot, Crab, and Shrimp Fisheries | A two-day workshop at Gander on various gear and by-catch concerns in the turbot, crab and shrimp fisheries. |
| 338 | Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture | FDP website development | To design and create an operational Web site for FDP and to produce project summaries. |
| 340 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans St. John’s | Impact of Scallop Fishing on Labrador Habitat Workshop | To conduct a one-day workshop to discuss the possible impact that scallop dragging has on the lobster habitat in Placentia Bay. |
| 341 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans St. John’s | Salmonid By-Catch in Eel Fyke Nets Workshop | To conduct a one-day workshop on the issue of salmonid by-catch in the commercial eel fyke net fishery. |
| 342 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Utilization of By-Product Streams from Fish Processing Operations | To demonstrate ensiling equipment at a number of fish processing sites and taking samples of the end “fish waste” product to potential buyers. |
| 350 | Beothic Fish Processors Limited Vallyfield | Value-Added Toad Crab Products | To investigate toad crab processing equipment, produce samples, analyse feedback, consider commercial production. |
| 352 | NF & LB Fish Harvesters’ Fleet (150 Pot) Assoc. St. John’s | Develop & Maintain Website | To develop and maintain a website to allow more effective communications with members. |
| 354 | Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Assoc. St. John’s | Market Development of Cultured Mussels | To carry out a coordinated, multi-faceted marketing campaign for mussels covering taste-education, presentations, trade shows, direct mail, advertising and promotional material. |
| 355 | Newfoundland Seafood Market Council St. John’s | Shrimp Marketing Initiative | To implement a detailed market development program for coldwater shrimp in the United States and Europe. |
| 356 | Fish Harvesters’ Resource Centre St. John’s | Non-Lethal Extraction of Lumpfish Roe (Phase ll) | To determine if lumpfish can have their roe removed and be returned alive to the ocean without killing them. |
| 357 | Ocean Choice Int. Inc. St. John’s | Market Development of Cultured Mussels & Farmed Cod Products | A multifaceted market development initiative in the United States and Europe to create demand for frozen mussel products and farmed cod. |
| 358#1 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Toad Crab Surveys Conducted | To survey the toad crab resources available in Outer St. Mary’s Bay and on the St. Pierre Bank. |
| 358#2 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Rock Crab Surveys in Placentia and Fortune Bays | To survey the rock crab resources available in Placentia and Fortune Bay. |
| 358#2B | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Rock Crab Survey – Western Newfoundland | To study the Rock Crab resource in o the West Coast of Newfoundland |
| 358#3 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Whelk Surveys Conducted St. Pierre Bank and Outer Bonavista Bay Areas |
To survey the whelk resources available on St. Pierre Bank and Outer Bonavista Bay Areas. |
| 358#3B | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Whelk Survey South Coast of Labrador | Exploratory survey White Point to St. Lewis Labrador |
| 358#3C | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Inshore and Nearshore Whelk Survey | Exploratory survey – Isle Aux Mort, Sops Arm, Cow Hear and Frey Islands areas. |
| 358#4 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Sea Cucumber | To survey the sea cucumber resources available. |
| 359 | Atlantic Shellfish Inc., Clarenville | Purchase Specialized Imitation Crab Processing Equipment | To install specialized imitation crab processing equipment to improve throughput at their Clarenville plant. |
| 363 | Ramea Economic Development Assoc. South Coast | Sea Urchin Biomass Study | To conduct a survey for sea urchins around Ramea Islands to see if enough quantity, appropriate size and desired quality exists for a commercial harvest. |
| 364 | Earl Johnson North Harbour | Study of Catamaran Technology | To establish a working group to review under 35 foot catamarans now used in the United Kingdom being used off Newfoundland and Labrador. |
| 367 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Port aux Choix | Capelin & Juvenile Groundfish By- Catch in Shrimp Trawls | To study technology and methods whereby the shrimp fleet might reduce its by-catch of caplin and juvenile groundfish. |
| 368 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans Canada Glovertown, Charlottetown, and Burgeo | By-Catch in Herring Bait Nets | To experiment with ways to determine if herring nets can be fished without by-catch using different bait net designs. |
| 371 | Furlong Brothers Ltd., Plate Cove West | Develop and Maintain Website | To develop and maintain a Web site with e-commerce capabilities to enable customers to order seafood products via the Internet. |
| 373 | Bay of Islands South Shore Development Association | Green Sea Urchin Biomass Assessment | To conduct a 40-day green sea urchin biomass study in the Bay of Islands. |
| 374 | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Cod Trap Size Selectivity | To study cod trap size selectivity by contracting the Fish Harvesters Resource Centre. |
| 376 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Species Profile Sheets | To hire a graduate student to compile species profile sheets on species that have more recently become part of the fishery. |
| 379 | Fish Harvesters’ Resource Centre St. John’s | The Fishery Now – 2001 | To produce a Province-wide 13-series TV program on NTV called “The Fishery Now”. |
| 381 | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Juvenille Turbot By-catch in Shrimp Trawls | To conduct research on juvenille turbot by-catch in shrimp trawls. |
| 383 | Nfld. Aquaculture Industry Assoc. | Strategic Development | Implementing a strategic development plan for the Newfoundland and Labrador Aquaculture industry. |
| 384 | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Comparison of turbot longlines and gilnets. | To compare catch rates and environmental benefits of the two technologies in the turbot industry. |
| 385 | Newfoundland and Labrador Aquaculture Industry Association | Quality Assurance & Standards for Mussel Industry | To develop quality assurance standards for the Newfoundland mussel industry, in conjunction with the Marine Institute. |
| 386 | Nfld. Aqua Products Ltd. | Clinical Trials for Seaweed | Clinical trials for kelp products, including getting Drug Identification Numbers. |
| 390 | Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Snow crab selectivity | To determine the effects that installing plastic collars on snow crab pots has on the amount of undersized and soft shell snow crab pots landed. |
| 391 | Irish Loop Regional Economic Development Board, Trepassey | Exploratory Fishing – sculpins | To identify the potential for harvesting sculpins, the most efficient processing techniques and the market potential. |
| 392 | Wood-pick Enterprises, Wareham | Market and product development | Product development and marketing of seal, herring mackerel, mussels and smoked salmon in China. |
| 393 | Fisheries Association of Newfoundland and Labrador | Turbot Quality Pilot Project | To conduct a turbot quality project involving grading the project. |
| 394 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture St. John’s | Travel to UK for Study of Catamaran Technology | To study catamaran technology by traveling to the United Kingdom to explore suitability for the local under 35 feet inshore fleet. |
| 395 | Applied Preservation Technology Inc., St. John’s | Develop and Market Carotenoprotein | To develop and market carotenoprotein and chiton/chitosan from waste shell material in partnership with Grand Atlantic Seafoods Inc. |
| 397 | Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans St. John’s | American Plaice By-Catch On Longlines | To investigate American Plaice by-catch reduction in the cod longline fishery. |
| 398 | Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture | High Strength Shrimp Beam Trawl | To design and fabricate a cost-effective, high-strength, low-weight, water-tight beam for use in the shrimp beam trawl fishery that is superior to what is currently available. |
| 404 | Fisheries and Marine Institute of MUN | Fisheries and Marine Awareness in High Schools | To adapt the Marine Technology 2128 high school course for distance delivery. |
| 406 | Fogo Island Co-op | Processing Sea Cucumber | The Fogo Island Co-operative will retain the services of a technician to train workers in processing sea cucumber for the Asian market. |
| 407 | Burgeo Diversification Development Board | Sea Urchin Initiative | To provide assistance for the transportation of sea urchins to Green Seafoods for quality assessment and to study commercial viability of shipping the product from the Burgeo area. |
| 409 | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Promotion of Environmental Awareness & Conservation Harvesting | Workshops will be held for the promotion of environmental awareness and conservation harvesting technology. This process began in 2001 and will conclude in 2003. |
| 411 | Fred Saunders (F&S Enterprises Ltd.) | Purchase RSW | A refrigerated seawater system(RSW) will be installed on a new 34’11” vessel. |
| 413 | Earl Johnson | Catamaran | A 35 foot catamaran fishing vessel will be purchased and demonstrated in a variety of fisheries. |
| 416 | Dept. of Fisheries & Aquaculture | Promotion of Projects Under Emerging Fisheries Component | A series of workshops will be held, in conjunction with DFO, to promote the results of projects carried out under the Fisheries Diversification Program. |
| 420 | Quality Bait Services | Test Kitchen for $ & D | Quality Bait Services will establish a test kitchen to conduct in-house research and development on fishery bait and formulated feed products. |
| 421 | DFA | Processing & Marketing Initiative
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A series of product and market development projects will be carried out. The species targeted are shrimp, jellyfish, seal, lobster and whelk. |
| 423 | Coast of Bay Corporation | Sea Urchin Biomass Study | Sea Urchin resource biomass survey from McCallum to Small Bay. |
| 424#1 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Rock Crab Survey – Western Newfoundland | To study the Rock Crab resource in o the West Coast of Newfoundland |
| 424#2 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Whelk Resource Survey/ Onboard Handling | To study the abundance of whelk on the St. Pierre Bank and investigate on-board handling during a trip type fishery. |
| 424#3 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Sea Cucumber Dive Harvest / Gear Testing and Design | Exploratory fishing for Sea Cucumber in areas of Bonavista Bay and Notre Dame Bay |
| 424#4 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Periwinkle Quality Analysis | To examine the quality aspects of periwinkle harvested on the Burin Peninsula. |
| 424#5 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Jellyfish Exploratory Survey | Exploratory fishing for jellyfish in Trinity Bay |
| 424#6 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Sea Urchin and Sea Cucumber Exploratory Survey – South Labrador Coast | Exploratory Survey from Williams Harbour to North Head |
| 424#7 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Rock Shrimp Survey – North Coast of Labrador | To determine an effective gear type and to document catch rates along the North Coast of Labrador |
| 424#8 | Dept. of Fisheries and Aquaculture | Shrimp Beam Trawl Gear Profile | To research and document designs of equipment used in the shrimp beam trawl fishery. |
| 426 | Atlantic Shell Fish Inc. | Marketing of Value-Added Seafood | A full-time co-ordinator will be hired and promotional fact sheets and posters will be produced. In addition, the company will participate in local and national food shows to promote their imitation crab products. |
| 427 | Newfoundland Aqua Ventures | Cod Hatchery | Newfoundland Aqua Ventures will install a water disinfection system in a newly constructed cod hatchery operation. |
| 428 | Newfoundland Seafood Market Council | Coldwater Shrimp Marketing Initiative | The NSMC will implement an awareness and promotional campaign for cold water shrimp. |
| 433 | DFO | Snow Crab Survivability – Phase II | An evaluation of methods to reduce mortality of snow crab released from crab vessels. |
| 434 | DFO | At sea bottom trawl experiments to reduce juvenile yellowtail and American Plaice by-catch. | |
| 435 | DFO | Effect | At sea, large vessel bottom trawl experiments will be conducted to determine the effect that Chafing Gear has on otter trawl selectivity. |
| 437 | DFO | Gillnetting – Best Practices | A 20 minute video will be produced to illustrated the “Best Practices” for the use of gillnets by 20 to 35 vessels. |
| 451 | DFO | Crab By-Catch in the Danish/Scottish Seine Net Fishery | A survey will be conducted in Bay St. George to determine areas where grey sole can be harvested without crab by-catch. |
| 452 | Grand Atlantic Seafoods | Extraction of Carotenoprotein | Extraction of protein from crab/shrimp shells. |
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