The production cycle of Pacific Oysters in Australia currently depends on hatchery production of spat, mainly in Tasmania. Experience in France and other European countries is that OsHV-1 affects mainly hatchery spat and juvenile oysters, with near total losses of affected batches being common....

In 2010, the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum listed access and allocation as one of the top priority policy issues to be addressed in Australian fisheries. Subsequently, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) formed a working group to examine possible approaches to access...

Four species of dories (Family: Zeidae) and five species of oreos (Family: Oreosomatidae) are caught in the South East Fishery (SEF). John dory and mirror dory are included in the SEF quota sytem with Total Allowable Catches (TACs), in 1993, of 240 t and 800 t, respectively. Oreos, originally a...