Increased understanding amongst the commercial fishing industry of economic considerations in the management of fisheries was considered a high priority by the CRC, who identified a need to get better support for and implementation of harvest strategies based on Maximum Economic Yield. Experience...

Judd Evans and I attended the WERA 099 Broodstock Management, Genetics and Breeding Programs for Molluscan Shellfish meeting on Sunday the 6th of April and the National Shellfish Association Annual Conference, 6th to 10th of April, held in Providence, Rhode Island. We then travelled, via New York,...