A workshop was held on September 18, 2002, to discuss the development of a quality index suited for use on Australian seafoods. A wide range of stakeholders from industry, fisheries organisations and R&D providers was represented and many others, unable to attend, requested to be kept informed....

At the start of this project, there was only the project vessel equipped with Japanese machinery and gear. During this year this has grown to eight vessels fully equipped to fish using Japanese methods and a further 15/20 vessels which have Australian devised systems using entirely monofilament...