National Fisheries Plan Australia’s first National Fisheries Plan is expected to be released in February 2022 after extensive public consultation on the draft plan in September and October 2021. The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment received 73 responses, including 23 formal...

To help Australian producers join international markets for marine plants, the FRDC is developing an Australian standard for aquatic plant names ‘Beaded glasswort’ is one of several common names applied to samphire, which is expected to be included in the proposed Australian Aquatic Plant Names...

NSW oyster growers are joining forces to promote Sydney Rock Oysters as an alternative to the more widely available Pacific Oyster, which has suffered reduced supplies in the wake of recent Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) outbreaks. Sydney Rock Oysters represent more than 90 per cent of...

The FRDC’s first People’s Choice Fish and Chips Awards provide lessons for next year while raising the profile of seafood in Australia The sheer scale of the response and the enthusiasm with which Australians have embraced the fish and chips awards has amazed us all at the FRDC. We created...

Project Sea Dragon is a $US1.45 billion Black Tiger Prawn venture from the Seafarms Group, based at several sites across northern Australia with the grow-out facilities to be on Legune Station in the Northern Territory. With an export-oriented production target of 100,000 tonnes, it has been...