Throughout the world, the fishing industry has come under increased pressure to comply with environmental requirements. This pressure has been prompted by scientific evidence that most of the world's commercial fisheries stock have either been over-fished or are in danger of over­exploitation beyond...

These guidelines were developed as part of Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) project number 2019-086: Development of a national sector-specific biosecurity plan guideline and template for the farmed freshwater native finfish industry of Australia and in accordance with: •...

In this project, CSIRO researchers implemented the first Australia-wide spatial approach to quantifying the exposure of mapped seabed assemblages to the footprints of Commonwealth demersal trawl fisheries, as well as their spatial protection in areas closed to trawling. These outputs are assisting...

Ecologically sustainable development (ESD) has been accepted as the foundation for the management of natural resources in Australia since 1992, when the National Strategy for ESD was released. ESD was specifically identified as an objective of fisheries management in the 1991 Commonwealth Fisheries...

From 2016 to 2018, recreational fishers across Australia focussed their attention on fish habitat as part of the project, Empowering recreational fishers as champions of healthy fish habitat. Fish habitat throughout Australia is in trouble. Progressive degradation of fish habitat has occurred since...