Commercial fishing is an economically important activity in the Torres Strait providing financial opportunities for the traditional inhabitants of the region. A key barrier to development of this fishery has been identified as the additional cost of reaching markets and the cost of doing business...
The South Australian Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF) has
sustained extensive management change over time, influencing its demographics. Now
fishers in the MSF community are dispersed both physically and in perspective.
These factors have made it harder for the MSF to connect with and...
FRDC Research Project 2014-409, Production of a Sea Cucumber Product Processing Training Video for Torres Strait Communities, was developed to educate fishers about the management and best practice identification, handling and processing techniques for achieving optimum quality and price for the...
As at March 2013 the Seafood CRC had invested $6.79 million into research projects in its Future Harvest research theme to broadly address the issue of ‘fishing for profit’. The overall outcome and benefit of this legacy project is the improved application of research from the Future...
The aim of this study was to assist in identifying the strategies and processes utilised in the extension, education and training of Seafood CRC research outcomes and to highlight the associated challenges and successes encountered during industry application of Seafood CRC facilitated research...