The Australian Government has committed is to conduct national recreational fishing surveys every five years. To meet this objective, a survey methodology was designed in 2015 for a national telephone-diary survey of recreational fishing to measure participation, catch, effort, economic and social...

The application has been developed over several years in response to ongoing spatial issues in southern rock lobster fisheries: (a) regional mismatch between biology and management; (b) the concentration of commercial effort in shallow water; (c) increasing stocks with low harvest rates in deep...

The Fisheries and EPBC Acts now require that fisheries are managed sustainably, not only for target species but for the ecosystem in which the fisheries operate. The ET&BF impacts pelagic ecosystems by taking a range of apex predators including tunas, billfishes and sharks, along with other minor...

Penaeid trawls are regarded as one of the world's least selective fishing methods, catching large quantities of non-targeted finfish and other organisms. This bycatch is considered wasteful and attracts significant attention and/or controversy from a host of stakeholders including interacting...

Perkinsus is the cause of serious disease and on-going losses in commercial mollusc populations in temperate waters world-wide and is listed internationally by the OIE as a notifiable disease. In New South Wales and South Australia Perkinsus infections have resulted in severe depletion of stocks and...

Aquaculture has been practiced in Australia for approximately 40,000 years by Aboriginal communities who used sophisticated fish traps to capture and hold fish. The modern Australian aquaculture industry is relatively new, having grown in volume at an average rate of around 12% per annum since...