The East Coast Bêche-de-mer Fishery (ECBDMF) is typical of many small scale fisheries in Queensland and Australia in that there has been few stock assessments on which to base robust management strategies. Adding to this difficulty is its multispecies catch and relatively short history. Management...

Fisheries throughout the world are undertaking increasingly complex science and monitoring in the face of higher demands for demonstrable scientific evidence across all aspects of EBFM (economic, environmental, social). The problem however, is that they are facing these challenges with diminishing...

The Tasmanian freshwater eel industry captures short- and long-finned eels (Anguilla australis and A. reinhardtii) from rivers and freshwater impoundments by predominantly fyke nets. Generally over 95% of the harvest is short-finned eel. The fish are held for a period in holding tanks before being...