By Rose Yeoman
The map defining the four WA bioregions to be pre-assessed under MSC assessment guidelines.
Photo: Marine Stewardship Council
A pre-assessment for the first of Western Australia’s four fisheries bioregions has been completed, as the state begins the process of achieving...
Aquaculture has been practiced in Australia for approximately 40,000 years by Aboriginal communities who used sophisticated fish traps to capture and hold fish. The modern Australian aquaculture industry is relatively new, having grown in volume at an average rate of around 12% per annum since...
The search is on for Australia’s best fish and chips… will South Australia win?
7 September 2018
Every Australian town and city boasts a fish and chips shop. But who has the best? With only a week left to vote for Australia’s best fish and chips the competition is heating up.
Senator Anne...
The production of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) represents Australia’s largest individual aquaculture industry. Salmon farming has exhibited a rapid increase and its inherent competitive market advantages make the salmon industry a critical agribusiness to Tasmania’s economy. Considerable...
Finding new ways of doing things to help make fisheries more efficient, safer and more profitable will be the focus of a new FRDC investment strategy
By Catherine Norwood
Brainstorming the future at evokeAG 2020, from left: Crispian Ashby, Christine Pitt, Rob Hulme, Cal Foulner, Wil Taing and...
New efforts to overcome river barriers are helping to restore crucial life cycle travel for migrating fish species
By Bianca Nogrady
Before (above) and after (below) The removal of a barrier at the Gooseponds in Mackay has included rock ramps to slow water flow and strategically...
Abalone sea ranching in Australia has had only moderate success to date. This is because success is dependent on a combination of having the right species in an appropriate environment, supported by adequate husbandry. Evidence (FRDC 2012-220) is that greenlip abalone are well adapted to living on...
One of the key themes emanating from the CRC Revised Commonwealth Outcomes and objectives, the
CRC OzSeaValue theme and the WAFIC Strategic plan is optimizing post harvest value through supply
chain analysis and intervention. However in order to undertake effective seafood supply chain analysis...