Oyster farming is one of Australia’s top five aquaculture industries. However, its largest contributor, the Sydney rock oyster (SRO) industry, has undergone two decades of decline in which production has fallen by 40%. Two of the greatest challenges to SRO farming have been competition from faster...

Department of Fisheries WA staff visualized Chlamydia-like organisms (CLO’s) in OOD-affected animals by electron microscopy, suggesting a link between the presence of these CLO’s and OOD-affected pearl oysters. Molecular research confirmed that two Chlamydia-like organisms were present in...

Critical in the production and marketing of Sydney Rock Oysters (SRO) is their physical and reproductive condition. While cycles in SRO condition are broadly understood, and to some extent can be manipulated through gross environmental changes, our understanding of the biochemical processes...

It is widely recognised that natural resource management is contested, especially in the case of common-pool resources, such as fisheries, where numerous interests compete for development and use of those resources. Controversy is common in these settings, because people’s different and conflicting...