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...

The saucer scallop Amusium balloti is fished commercially in four main regions of Western Australia with the highest production historically from the two key fisheries, Shark Bay and the Abrolhos islands. The annual value of these two fisheries is between $5 and $20 million and these two industries...

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...

The DAFF Report on the Review of Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy and Guidelines (2013) identified that deriving appropriate economic-based target reference points in multispecies fisheries was a complex problem. While it is recognized in the HSP that achieving a fishery level net...

It is well-recognised that validation of diagnostic tests for diseases that are exotic to Australia is hampered by the lack of reference populations that are infected with the specific disease agent. Experimental infectivity studies provide one approach to address this gap. In consultation with Prof...