The Australian Southern rock lobster (SRL, Jasus edwardsii) fishery is largely reliant on an international live lobster market. The increased value of lobsters and reliance on live export has meant that even low levels of stock losses or poor product quality can have significant financial or brand...
Recent changes to legislation in the United States (US) requires that nations importing seafood must demonstrate that they have a regulatory program for reducing marine mammal bycatch that is comparable in effectiveness to the U.S. standards under ‘Fish and Fish Product Import Provisions’ of the...
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There is no shortage of passion and commitment to the industry among the winners of the 2015 National Seafood Industry Awards
By Catherine Norwood
The largest-ever seafood industry awards night provided a gala conclusion to the successful 2015 Seafood Direction conference in Perth, with...
FRDC-sponsored Nuffield Scholars Joana Mendes (2023 scholar) and Tom Cosentino (2024 scholar), have been awarded a 14-week global learning experience, diving deeper into their respective fishing and aquaculture study areas.
By Dempsey Ward
Joana Mendes, FRDC’s 2023 Nuffield...
A preliminary risk assessment identified two species of sea snake, Hydrophis pacificus and Disteira kingii, as species potentially at risk from prawn trawling in the Northern prawn Fishery during the FRDC project 96/257 (Milton 2001). This assessment was based on limited data collected in 1997-1998...
The Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance (ASSA) with the FRDC has been successful in securing an $8.M grant from the Federal Government (Department of Industry, Science and Resources will be administering the grant on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) to develop...