Information about growth and mortality are important in the management of resources because these provide us with an understanding about the productivity of the target population. Estimates are used to assess the impact of fishing upon the target population and the effectiveness of various scenarios...

A 5-day, intensive Shellfish Diseases Workshop was held at NSW Fisheries' Brackish Water Fish Culture Research Station, Salamander Bay, from 6-10 December 1993. The workshop was organized by Sub-Committee on Fish Health, a sub-committee of Animal Health Committee. It was attended by...

Depuration in the context of this report can be defined as the process by which harvested shellfish are placed in land based plants containing clean estuarine water to permit the purging of their gastrointestinal contents under controlled conditions. Depuration does not include the practice of...

This project was prompted by poor or variable availability of wild commercial scallop spat for fisheries enhancement and farming in southern Australia and by generally poor and variable success of commercial oyster hatcheries in earlier attempts to fill this shortfall. Scallops from Jervis Bay,...

Objectives: 1. To establish protocols for improved broodstock conditioning and handling, particularly to permit out-of-season spawning of selected oyster stocks. 2. To determine the effects of the key autecological factors (temperature and salinity) and nutrition on SRO embryos and larvae, to...