SafeFish originated from the recognition by the members of the former Seafood Access Forum (SAF) (industry and government) of the need to provide coordinated, cohesive and robust technical advice to support Australian negotiators and delegations dealing with trade and market access issues related to...

Australia is one of the few countries in the world where much of the domestic catch of prawns is landed chilled after being cooked onboard the vessel. In most other fisheries the catch is chilled thoroughly and then brought into port. This gives the buyer or processor a much greater range of options...

This project lead to a large number of outcomes that provided significant benefit to the Australian live mud crab industry supply chain. These include: Agreement on an easy to use, national, industry-driven, grading scheme for live mud crabs (the Australian Industry Live Mud Crab Grading...

The southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsit) is fished commercially in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. The Victorian annual catch is currently 458 tonnes with a landed value of $14.5 million representing 10.6% of total rock lobster landings in south east Australia (ABARE 1997). Over eighty...