Results of a previous FIRTA-funded project (86/53) indicated that red spot disease (RSD), a cutaneous ulcerative disease of estuarine fish, is caused by a number of interacting factors. The study showed that lower catchment rainfall is an important determinant of RSD outbreak occurrence. The study...

This project represents the first detailed study exploring the relationship between eDNA concentrations and the biomass and/or abundance of some economically and ecologically important (primarily freshwater) fish species in Australia. The work was conducted over four-and-a-half-years as part of a...

A two and a half year study was conducted to compare the performance of sibling diploid and triploid Sydney rock oysters Saccostrea commercialis (Iredale and Roughley) at three intertidal and one subtidal site in Port Stephens, New South Wales (NSW). The findings of this study have major...