The prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria is worth $100 million/year and a large proportion of this is from catches of banana prawns. In one stage of their complex life history, banana prawn larvae are carried by ocean currents from their spawning grounds to the estuarine nursery...
At the Fish Handling and Quality Control Workshop in Victoria, eight speakers delivered 40 minute presentations each, broken into 15 to 20 minute papers followed by discussions with workshop attendants.
This final report contains two of the papers presented, "Handling and Processing of Freshwater...
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
The three experiments conducted to spawn and grow C. Gigas were only partly successful, with total mortality of larvae occuring in 14 days: spawning and larvae growth to this period being successful on each occasion. Further experiments in an attempt to determine the reason for failure using the...