Over the past few years, our CSIRO fisheries researchers working on Torres Strait fisheries have been engaged in strengthening two-way information sharing with Torres Strait Islanders and building science capacity, such as through science capacity workshops held in Brisbane and in Torres Strait....

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,...

Fishing is the major extractive resource use on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), where the annual economic value of the commercial Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery is about AU$60-100 million. Each year the commercial line sector harvests between 3000-4000 t from the multi-species reef line fishery, while...