About
CrabTrace Team
A cross-sector partnership bringing together government, academia, and industry to deliver end-to-end mud crab traceability.
CrabTrace is the Winner of 2025 QLD iAwards in Government & Public Sector Solution
Recognised for innovation in public-sector digital infrastructure that strengthens seafood traceability and regulatory compliance.
View iAwards announcement →
Research partners
This pioneering research initiative is being led by the Food Innovation team at the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI), in partnership with the UTSCybeR team at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Through collaboration with state fisheries regulators, Fisheries Queensland (FQ), selected traceability-relevant data is being shared to the CrabTrace platform from FQ’s existing eFisher app, FishNet and other mandatory reporting systems, with consent from participating mud crabbers.
Industry engagement
The research is primarily being advanced with Queensland-based commercial fishers as use-case participants. However, to ensure broader applicability, supply chain intermediaries and sellers from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria are also engaged, including Sydney Fish Market (SFM) as a key project partner.
ARDC co-investment
The project received co-investment (doi.org/10.47486/DC108) from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
