The WISA Power Up Breakfast at Seafood Directions is WISA's premier event. In 2022, the event was sold out within a few weeks of tickets online and we had a long waiting list. An important drawcard for the event was the high profile journalist Annabel Crabb as the keynote speaker (funded by FRDC as...
Stock assessment is a key component of sustainable fisheries management. It relies on a small pool of scientists who are technically able to develop and adapt complex statistical estimation methods to lead the assessments undertaken in Australia. A series of projects has given us some insight into...
Public scrutiny of trawl impacts from fisheries on seafloor ecosystems is increasing (Amoroso et al. 2018). Demonstrating the environmental sustainability of trawling is a major challenge. Well-managed trawl fisheries aim to employ best practices, which are described as ‘management and technical...
Background
The Tasmanian scalefish fishery contributes to total state fisheries production and is of high community value. However, target species remain difficult to assess and manage. Historically, scalefish, except for Banded Morwong, have been assessed using trends in commercial catch and...
SBT Aquaculture Industry: Position
The aquaculture of southern bluefin tuna (SBT) has been a major success story in the expansion of the Australian aquaculture industry, although it has not been without its challengers. The industry, which started in 1990, has expanded to produce about 9000 tonnes...
The parasitic gill amoeba Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis is believed to be the primary causative agent of amoebic gill disease (AGD) of cultured Atlantic salmon in the South east of Tasmania. The amoeba attaches to the gills of susceptible salmon and the response to the irritation by the amoeba is an...
The Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) is the professional scientific society for fish and fisheries research in Australia. Each year, ASFB hosts a workshop on a topical issue in Australian fisheries.
The workshop for 2004 is entitled the ‘National Symposium on Ecosystem Research and...
The Aquatic Animal Health (AAH) Subprogram was established in 2001, prompted by the federal budget initiative Building a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health. Under a joint agreement between AFFA and FRDC, the subprogram was initiated to manage the establishment of the subprogram, develop,...