This project was developed to address two key needs in Northern Australia. The first was around filling in knowledge gaps on the biology of key coastal reef fish species which have suffered significant declines across the tropics and recent stock assessments in the Northern Territory (NT) have...

There is evidence to suggest that some of Queensland’s major commercial and recreational fisheries are affected by physical oceanographic conditions and that in order to improve our ability to assess, forecast and manage stocks, some understanding of these influences is required. In the past,...

This project has been developed as a direct response to the NSW wild catch industry priorities identified through an industry wide call for RD&E ideas by NSW FRAB, and an open invitation priority setting workshop held at SFM 2012. The need to address people development for the catching sector was a...

Expansion of the long-spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii southwards from southern New South Wales, through Eastern Victoria, the Bass Strait Islands to the Tasman Peninsular has occurred over the past few decades, with localised destructive consequences for subtidal habitat and associated...