Fine-scale population structure is common in many inshore marine species (Swearer et al. 2002; Orensanz et al. 2005), particularly sedentary invertebrates with limited larval dispersal whose populations (or stocks) tend to be characterised by a complex spatial structure evident at fine spatial...

The Aquatic Animal Health Technical Forum (AAHTF), a network of aquatic animal health specialists, was established in 2010 and to date there have been 6 workshops conducted. AAHTF training workshops have proved to play an important part in developing the networks between the aquaculture industry and...

Since 2000 the use of BRDs (& TEDs) has been a mandatory requirement in most tropical prawn trawl fisheries. Despite this period of mandatory use, the number of BRD designs has remained unchanged and their performance can, at best, be described as modest. In the NPF tiger prawn fishery, these...