In recent years, increased interest has been shown in the Queensland beche-de-mer industry. As a consequence, there has been a number of initiatives taken to ensure the industry will have a sustainable future. The industry, traditionally a 'cottage' industry in the past, has not been able to access...

The First Australasian Scallop Workshop was held in Taroona, Tasmania in July 1988 and was attended by 51 participants from Australia, New Zealand and Japan. It proved to be a very valuable forum for exchange of ideas on scallop biology, management and culture. The organisers of that workshop, Mike...

Snapper has been fished since the early development of the colony around Sydney Harbour in the late 18th century, but it was the arrival of steam power in the 1860’s that enabled fishers to start regularly targeting the abundant schools of snapper occurring in the deep-water fishing grounds...