The First Australasian Scallop Workshop was held in Taroona, Tasmania in July 1988 and was attended by 51 participants from Australia, New Zealand and Japan. It proved to be a very valuable forum for exchange of ideas on scallop biology, management and culture. The organisers of that workshop, Mike...

There is currently an estimated economic gap (lost profit) in the CRC participant fisheries of approximately 40% or $200 million per annum.. If the economic gap could be halved from 40% to 20% the profitability of CRC fisheries would be improved by approximately $100 million. This project aimed 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...