This application extends from a Consultancy Brief provided by the FRDC.
The FRDC’s previous policy regarding investment in aquaculture species was based on the larger sectors or sectors that could return the highest potential (such as high end species) that contributed or could contribute higher...
Background to the problem:
The Tasmanian blacklip abalone fishery is the largest and most valuable fishery in Tasmania. Following collapse of major abalone fisheries elsewhere (South Africa, Japan, Mexico, California, British Columbia), Tasmania now supports the largest wild abalone fishery in the...
Creating models to test choices and consequences, Tony Smith AM has provided new tools for better fisheries management
Tony Smith
By Catherine Norwood
Mathematics and ecology may have been what first brought CSIRO chief research scientist Tony Smith to the seafood sector, but the human...
Preserving customary fishing practices is more complex than simply providing an allocation for Aboriginal fishers
Spear fishing north of Carnarvon, Western Australia.
Photos: Guy Wright
By Rose Yeoman
“That’s the fish we go for in the river ‘Yirrigana’ – the bony bream, that’s our feed....