•There is an existing FRDC funded project to develop a risk assessment for the translocation of prawns (as a model for crustaceans) and abalone (as a model for molluscs). To date there has been no attempt to develop national translocation guidelines for finfish. Concern about the lack of...

In the Northern Prawn Fishery, as in most fisheries, limited data are available on the catches and biology of byproduct species. This is a situation that creates challenges for fishery managers. Since the introduction of the EPBC Act and the Strategic Assessment process for fisheries, this...

Eastern Australian salmon are important to commercial, recreational and indigenous fishers and their management has been the focus of considerable debate during the past 10 years. They are acknowledged as being a species that is currently under-utilized and anecdotal information indicates that the...

Over the last 4 years, the annual catch of scallops from the Queensland east coast trawl fishery has fallen dramatically to about a third of the annual catch weight and value. We propose to determine whether the current range of management measures are resulting in the optimum use of the resource....

For many years now, industry and researchers have recognised the problems with using catch and effort data from commercial logbooks as the main index of abundance for SESSF species. It is generally agreed that this would be largely addressed by the implemenation of fishery independent surveys to...