There is a growing awareness of the impacts of fisheries on the marine ecosystem and the need for ecosystem-based fisheries management. Fisheries, particularly export fisheries, are increasingly being required to show that they are ecologically sustainable. The prime objective of the recently...

This project was developed to address two key needs in Northern Australia. The first was around filling in knowledge gaps on the biology of key coastal reef fish species which have suffered significant declines across the tropics and recent stock assessments in the Northern Territory (NT) have...

Expansion of the long-spined sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii southwards from southern New South Wales, through Eastern Victoria, the Bass Strait Islands to the Tasman Peninsular has occurred over the past few decades, with localised destructive consequences for subtidal habitat and associated...