About Dr Tocher Douglas Tocher has a BSc and Doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He worked for 16 years for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) at the Institute of Marine Biochemistry, Aberdeen (1982-1986) and the Unit of Aquatic Biochemistry,...

Key objectives within the APFA's 5 year strategic plan relate to increasing production output, price per kilogram and increasing industry GVP. To achieve these goals research activities are in place for methods to improve production outputs. There is a need for marketing research to underpin...

Tasmanian Seafoods Pty Ltd (TSF) has been very successful in developing the viability of harvesting, processing, and marketing sea cucumber products in Australia. Over the last 15 years they have secured a large portion of the Australian wild fishery licenses for this industry particularly in the...

Abalone fishery assessments are very basic relative to other fisheries of comparable value and provide only general guidance for management. Consequently, management of the stock tends to evolve through adaptive management in response to year-to-year trends in catch and catch-rate trends, and...

This application was developed following a request from the Seafood CRC to deliver basic marketing knowledge to its industry participants. It is part of the A,B,Sea Theme Business Plan and it meets CRC outcomes #2 (CRC industry participants have the necessary skills to implement CRC research results...