The fishery for western lobster (Panulirus cygnus) has supported an annual catch of about 10,500 tonnes per annum over the last twenty years and is worth between $200-300 million per annum. The fishery has been experiencing increasing exploitation rates over time and estimates in the early 1990s...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
This report outlines the role that the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Indigenous Reference Group (IRG) has had in providing high level and strategic advice to the FRDC on its Indigenous Research Development and Extension (RD&E) investment and also the IRG’s role in...
With the expansion of aquaculture in Australia there is a need to improve coordination between and within both the R&D and industry sectors with regard to the study of hatchery feeds, and to identify opportunities and priorities for future research. The recent world shortage of the brine shrimp...
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...