Huon Aquaculture and NSW DPI are working together to establish NSW’s first Yellowtail Kingfish (YTK) farm. Using a recently approved Marine Aquaculture Research Lease (MARL) and an existing farm site off Port Stephens, NSW, we have begun to establish NSW largest fish production facility, with...

Estuarine habitats, and in particular coastal floodplains and wetlands, provide essential nursery habitat for a large number of fish and prawn species, many of which are commercially and recreationally significant. Human activities on coastal land, such as those associated with grazing and...

This project concerns an assessment of the significance ghost fishing in the NSW Rock Lobster Fishery and potential modifications to fishing gears and practices that could minimise trap loss and consequent ghost fishing of the target species, Eastern Rock Lobster, Sagmariasus verreauxi. The...

The Select Oyster Company breeding plan has been amended to include a comprehensive manual of protocols for pair mating Sydney rock oysters (4.1). The association between phenoloxidase (PO) and QX resistance has been confirmed and a sensitive test for PO genotypes has been developed so that the...

Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis vims (EHNV) was the first virus isolated from finfish in Australia. It causes outbreaks of disease in wild redfin perch (Perca fluviatilis) and also in hatchery reared rainbow trout (Onchorhynchus mykiss). The principal aim of this project, which was to develop a...