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Story time on ancient coastal trail

The restoration of an Aboriginal trail on the NSW south coast provides the opportunity to celebrate and re-engage the community with ancient sea country connections By Melissa Marino Les Kosez from the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council tells stories of the area’s history and future on the...
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Navigating an ocean of data and opportunity

Australian fish stocks added to international research efforts By Catherine Norwood International researchers are using global fish stock assessment datasets to produce new, high-profile research on the status of the world’s commercial fisheries. But Australian fisheries are largely...
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Celebration of excellence

The seafood industry’s “night of nights” celebrates outstanding performers showing the way for future success Members of the award-winning Bass Strait Direct team. The team from Austral Fisheries (left to right): David Carter, Dylan Skinns, Camay Young, Sam Greaves, Jodie Blacker, Shin Tanabe,...
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Search for the fisheries x-factor

Business-acceleration program Fish-X launched at Seafood Directions 2017 with the aim of fostering innovation in fisheries and aquaculture. Source: www.fish-x.com.au The combination of fisheries and start-up science is set to accelerate innovation and the commercialisation of new ideas in...
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Data-smart fishing

The potential to make more from fisheries data through digitisation and technology uptake is gaining momentum By Catherine Norwood Advances in technologies such as cloud systems, smartphones and digital data hold incredible potential to create opportunities and improve efficiencies. For...
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Risk reviews beyond fish stocks

www.whichfish.com.au While the sustainability of fish populations underpins the future of seafood supplies, buyers across the supply chain are increasingly calling for additional performance measures when sourcing their fish. These include the impact of fishing on the broader environment and...
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Citizen science captures recreational data

More information on the recreational take is emerging from the development of the Track My Fish app, which in turn is leading to better recreational fishing By Andrew Cooke Efforts to quantify national recreational fishing activity have been notoriously difficult and expensive in the past,...
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Out of the ocean into the fryer

Up for a challenge, the team assessing the national judged Fish and Chips Award traversed the country in search of Australia’s best Story and photos by John Dory (the identity of the judges has been kept anonymous) Eddie Willoughby-Smith, Frying Nemo, Northern Territory Portrait: Michael...
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Access all areas

The FRDC’s revamped websites will provide unprecedented access to fisheries information for diverse audiences, from consumers and fishers to researchers, traders, managers and the media Centralising its information and data and connecting what were previously standalone websites into a suite of...
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Voting jump-starts seafood conversations

The FRDC’s first People’s Choice Fish and Chips Awards provide lessons for next year while raising the profile of seafood in Australia The sheer scale of the response and the enthusiasm with which Australians have embraced the fish and chips awards has amazed us all at the FRDC. We created...
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