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2024-03-26

Supporting careers for stock assessment scientists

Building the skills of the next generation of stock assessment scientists to support informed fisheries management is a priority for FRDC. By Catherine Norwood Fisheries stock assessment is a relatively niche field – a national database lists only 100 people who work in this...
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2019-05-31

Seafood Directions to make community connections

Plans to kickstart action on industry issues, and to bring consumers along on the seafood journey, are part of a new format for the national conference Story and photo Catherine Norwood Seafood Industry Victoria executive director Johnathon Davey, pictured at the Apollo Bay Seafood Festival,...
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-212
DATE START/END: 11 JUN 2019 - 29 JUN 2019

Establishing an industry recovery strategy for the Area 3 zone of the Western Australian Abalone Managed Fishery

The Australian wild abalone resource is experiencing under pressure from fishing, environmental change and disease outbreak. In Western Australia, these fisheries have been particularly hard hit by the warm water events experienced beginning in 2011and subsequent years. These events have severely...
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Southern Seafood Producers (WA) Association
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DATE:
2024-06-26

Prawn fishers to harvest their reporting data and more

South Australia’s prawn fishers are on the brink of a digital transformation, after successful sea-testing software Deckhand, showcased the potential to improve the efficiency and profitability of their operations. By Catherine Norwood In South Australia’s Spencer Gulf and West...
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2021-03-01

Device trials underway to keep sharks from the catch

A range of shark deterrent devices using acoustic, electronic and electromagnetic technologies is being put to the test in Western Australia’s shark hotspots By Catherine Norwood Researcher Peter Coulson with the shark deterrent devices being tested in Western Australia, from left, Ocean...
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