The debate over the commitments that Australia has made or should make to the conservation of marine biodiversity and how these should be incorporated into fisheries management is active, but the issues are by no means resolved. Unfortunately, there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the...

Perkinsus is the cause of serious disease and on-going losses in commercial mollusc populations in temperate waters world-wide and is listed internationally by the OIE as a notifiable disease. In New South Wales and South Australia Perkinsus infections have resulted in severe depletion of stocks and...

This proposal addresses the FRDC RD&E Theme 2 objective “Minimise the effects of fishing, aquaculture, pollution, habitat destruction and land-based activities, and non-fishing occurrences, on fish, aquatic habitats and ecosystems” by identifying juvenile eastern king prawn nursery habitats in NSW,...

Fuel is a vital, but costly, input to seafood production, accounting for up to 50% of the operating costs of a fishing vessel in Australia. An estimated 270 million litres of diesel fuel is currently consumed in Australian fisheries each year, as well as a substantial amount of petrol. Faced...