This FRDC funded research focuses on the obstacles to, and drivers of, positive practice change relating to aquatic animal welfare (AAW) in Australia’s wild-catch commercial fishing and finfish aquaculture sectors. It was conducted between December 2019 and March 2022 in response to...
The first national workshop on tropical oyster aquaculture was held in Darwin on 22 to 23 October, 2018 at the Waterfront Campus of Charles Darwin University (CDU). The workshop brought together representatives from Aboriginal communities, industry, government agencies, and Australian and...
This Project aimed to improve understanding of how and to what extent certain barriers keep the seafood industry from making substantive progress towards building greater stakeholder and community trust. The Project was designed to meet this aim by researching obstacles to, and enablers of,...
Fisheries are increasingly managed with involvement of fishers and other stakeholders. Stakeholders are especially critical where managers lack full knowledge of the system to be managed, resources to gather additional information, and/or resources to monitor and enforce compliance. Such...