The Women's Industry Network was formed in 1996 by a group of women in fishing in South Australia and has since developed into a National body with organisations in each state. In February of 1998, SA WIN hosted a Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) sponsored workshop entitled...

The salmonid aquaculture industry is an important player in the Tasmanian economy producing approximately 16,000 tonnes of fish per year valued at around 165 million AUD (Battaglene and Buxton, 2003) and generating employment for more than 3000 people (Carrington Smith and Wardley, 2003). The...

Over the last 4 years, the annual catch of scallops from the Queensland east coast trawl fishery has fallen dramatically to about a third of the annual catch weight and value. We propose to determine whether the current range of management measures are resulting in the optimum use of the resource....