The sustainable production of meat proteins from the world’s oceans could almost double by 2050, according to a recently released international blue paper, The Future of Food from the Sea. By Catherine Norwood The report has identified that capture fisheries could increase yields by 20 per...

It was the end of a long era when the Gippsland Lakes commercial fishers pulled up their nets for the last time on 31 March 2020. Words Melissa Marino | Photos Leigh Henningham “It was a beautiful day, blue as far as you could see,” recalls Lynda Mitchelson-Twigg, whose husband and father held...

The Australian seaweed sector could grow to be worth $1.5 billion by 2040, employing 9000 people and helping to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent, according to the recently released Australian Seaweed Industry Blueprint. By Catherine Norwood The blueprint, released by...

For more than three decades Stephan Schnierer has been advocating for the rights of Indigenous people to access Australia’s fisheries, in a role that has not always come easily for the fisheries scientist. Words Larissa Dubecki | Photo Paul Harris Stephan Schnierer at one of his favourite...

The year 2010 was a good one for the recruitment of Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) in the Northern Territory. It was also a year when the Bureau of Meteorology’s Australian Monsoon Index peaked in response to a big wet season. By Catherine Norwood The relationship between a good wet season and...