An online education resource is helping teachers to equip their students with knowledge about primary production in Australia
By Melissa Marino
Australia’s food and fibre industries – including fisheries – are being highlighted in schools thanks to Primezone, a web-based resource that...
There is an urgent need to accurately identify introduced marine worms and distinguish them from native Australian species. The National Marine Pest Sectoral Committee (MPSC) including representatives from all states and New Zealand identified correct recognition of marine pests as a high priority...
Mud crab is the basis of a highly valuable resource for commercial, recreational and indigenous fisheries in the northern half of Australia. The wild-harvest commercial mud crab fishery is the highest value fishery in the Northern Territory (NT) and in 2007 provided a gross value of production (GVP)...
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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Wild abalone catches have declined by 50% nationally and 39% in South Australia over the past 20 years; in South Australia, most of this decline was for the Western Zone Fishery, particularly for Blacklip Abalone over the past decade. The Central Zone Blacklip Abalone Fishery is also closed due to...
Queensland’s Sue Poole has been in the vanguard of post-harvest seafood scientists who have lifted the quality, value and consumer appreciation of seafood
By Brad Collis
As a pioneering seafood researcher, particularly in the area of post-harvest management, Sue Poole has been a key player in...
By Catherine Norwood
Leadership, innovation and industry professionalism are key themes for the continuation of the FRDC’s people development program.
Following the success of the program’s first five years, a two-year extension until 2015 has been approved, with more than $500,000 of funding...
Finfish aquaculture is the single most valuable sector of South Australia’s aquaculture industry, and is likely to see continual growth into the near future. Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) farming is well established in the Port Lincoln region, and there is currently provision for...
To help consumers better understand the health benefits of seafood, some of Australia’s most popular species have undergone nutritional evaluation
Super Seafood is the Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre’s new guide that details the nutritional analysis of our 20 most popular seafood...