The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F) was commissioned by Seafood Services Australia Ltd (SSA) to prepare an update of the publication "Evaluation of the Market for Dried Seafood 1993-96”. This was done as a desk study using data from State and Commonwealth...
Survey forms sent to over 800 companies in the aquaculture and processing sectors of the Australian seafood industry on the provision of occupational health services and the prevalence of allergic health problems drew 140 responses.
The key findings of this survey were:
About half of the...
Spanner crabs (Ranina ranina) represent a valuable single-species fishery in Queensland. Although a transparent and effective assessment process was developed some years ago for setting the commercial total allowable catch (TAC), additional information was needed to reduce some of the uncertainty in...
The saucer scallop, Amusium balloti, is distributed along the Western and Eastern coast of Australia and supports a fishery in both Queensland and Western Australia. Two commercial companies are investing in sea-ranching operations in an attempt to stabilise and increase annual catches. These...