Snapper has been fished since the early development of the colony around Sydney Harbour in the late 18th century, but it was the arrival of steam power in the 1860’s that enabled fishers to start regularly targeting the abundant schools of snapper occurring in the deep-water fishing grounds...

Following the successes achieved from the 77/78 F.I.R.T.A. project "Design and development of a new purse seining method and equipment" a further grant of $27,580 was allocated from F.I.R.T.A. to introduce the technique into the pelagic fisheries. As the Mackerel fishery is still in need of...