Spanner crabs (Ranina ranina) represent a valuable resource to southern Queensland and northern NSW. The fishery became established in the late 1970s, and as a result of an almost exponential increase in fishing effort between 1992 and 1995 an output-controlled limited entry management arrangement...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
There is an enormous market throughout the world for dried seafood, many of which command high prices. Six major markets have been identified by FAO. The Japanese market is very large and is growing slowly. Markets in Hong Kong and Spain, Germany, Italy are big and growing while that in Portugal is...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Female penaeid prawns grow faster and may have higher feed conversion efficiency than do males. If a technique could be devised to bias the sex ratio of larvae produced so that the proportion of females in each brood outnumbered the males, the commercial grower could achieve dramatically...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct