International experts gather to help Australia’s Atlantic Salmon industry navigate a course for sustainable growth
International experts discussed trends in the design and location of Atlantic Salmon pens at the Blue Future forum in Hobart.
Photos: Catherine Norwood
By Catherine...
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While the sustainability of fish populations underpins the future of seafood supplies, buyers across the supply chain are increasingly calling for additional performance measures when sourcing their fish.
These include the impact of fishing on the broader environment and...
A delegation of five Australian fishers, led by OceanWatch Australia’s Project Manager for Whale Entanglement Mitigation, Kristin Hoel, recently returned from an enlightening trip to the Ropeless Consortium in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
By Dempsey Ward
Supported by an education...
The South Australian Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF) is a small-scale, community-based commercial fishery that operates in the Coorong estuary and Lower Lakes region. The fishery is an important source of local seafood, regional employment and income for South Australia (SA).
Over the past decade,...
The Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) was founded in 1971 and is a professional, independent, non-profit, and non-aligned organisation. The Society’s objectives are to promote research, education and management of fish and fisheries and to provide a forum for the exchange of information. ...
New species and new ways of analysing data make the latest reports on Australian Fish stocks the most comprehensive yet – and available on your smartphone
By Annabel Boyer
Crimson Snapper.
The latest edition of the Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) reports is set to be...
AQUAPLAN 2014-2019 is Australia’s national strategic plan for aquatic animal health. It was jointly developed by aquatic animal health industry sectors and the Australian, state and territory governments. The development of a program to support farms to develop and implement enterprise-level...
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...