Estuarine fishes in NSW are exploited by commercial and recreational fishers and are subject to significant pressure from habitat degradation. The NSW commercial estuarine finfish fishery is highly complex as it is based on multi-species and many fishers using variety of methods. Furthermore, there...

Red spot disease (RSD), a cutaneous ulcerative disease of estuarine fish, was first reported from the Burnetfc River in Queensland in 1972. By 1985, when the present application was submitted, seasonally recurrent RSD outbreaks were adversely affecting commercial fisheries in many east coast...