This project provided input into the National Prawn Market Development Strategy. It has established a process to collect voluntary contributions on a national basis for the prawn industry across all license holders in the wild-catch and aquaculture sectors.
The value proposition for prawn license...
The project was developed to take advantage of an Australian presence at the world’s leading seafood event, the European Seafood Expo, to introduce young Australians to the world market for seafood. In selecting ESE, the bursary recipients would be exposed to the products from over eighty countries...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Government agencies, NGO’s and local and international conservation groups are increasingly advocating the use of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for the conservation and management of Australia’s oceanic and estuarine resources. In December 1998, the Australian Commonwealth...
The overall objective of this study is to provide critical background knowledge to support the reexpansion of Queensland oyster aquaculture, which has been experiencing low levels of production since the 1920s. Once the epicentre of the oyster industry in Australia (Schrobback, 2015),...
The use of transferable fishing rights has increased
internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now
using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual
transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries.
Australia also has...