Recent workshops on small-scale fisheries management in Adelaide and the use of bio-economics in Queenscliff highlighted the use and value of increasing engagement between jurisdictions, to improve understanding and uptake of innovative solutions to fisheries management. At these workshops managers...
Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) is a devastating disease affecting Pacific Oysters. It is caused by the virus Ostreid herpesvirus-1 microvariant (OsHV-1 μVar). POMS has been associated with high mortality events involving Pacific oysters in Europe, New Zealand and NSW. All ages of Pacific...
This project has grown out of a recognised need for recreational fishers to grow in their capacity to engage in fish habitat rehabilitation. It has also evolved out of an ongoing conversation between everyday recreational fishers, recreational fishing organisations and representative bodies and...
Small scale multispecies, multi-gear inshore community based fisheries across Australia, in particular the Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF) and Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF) in South Australia face significant challenges to build their economic, social and environmental capacity. These challenges...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
Significant effort of the past 50 years has seen the tools available for established, often high value, fisheries become increasingly robust and transparent – with the combination of Ecological Risk Assessments of the Effects of Fishing (Hobday et al 2011), tiered Harvest Strategies (Smith et al...
At the November meeting the Board asked FRDC to look at current soft assets with a view to commercialise. In discussions with the selected web developers, they have indicated that of the FRDC web platforms Fishfiles.com.au poses the greatest potential for commercialisation and generation of income –...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)