Bycatch from fishing (the unintended, non-targeted organisms caught when targeting particular species or sizes of species) remains one of the most important issues concerning the world’s fisheries. And discards are considered the most important component of bycatch because they represent a...

With FRDC support, Regional Larval Fish Archives (RLFAs) have been established at the Australian Museum, CSIRO Fisheries in Hobart, the Museum of Tropical Queensland, the Museum of Victoria and the South Australian Museum. In the RLFAs large larval fish collections can be deposited to be held...

The objectives of this project are to use the Victorian Western Zone (WZ) abalone fishery to develop and evaluate a new approach to calculating abalone density and biomass indicators from the combination of three information sources. The three information sources are: i. ...