Seafarmers is a marketer of quality Australian farmed seafood and has spent the past 12 months researching, developing and test marketing barramundi into the UK and European markets. Seafarmers directors have been working with the Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA) and government...

Pearl oysters of the species Pinctada maxima (silver lip or gold lip pearl oyster), P. margaritifera (black lip pearl oyster), and Pteria penguin (bat wing pearl oyster), are all used in the Australian cultured pearl industry, but Pinctada maxima is by far the most important economically. Pinctada...

This project found and described a baculovirus similar to Monodon Baculovirus (MBV) that was called Plebejus Baculovirus (PBV) as it was in eastern king prawns (Penaeus plebejus). It later found it in Australian cultured Penaeus monodon. The project investigated other conditions, particularly...

The East Coast Prawn Fishery extends along the east coast of Australia from Torres Straight in the north to Barrenjoey Point in New South Wales. A limited entry policy was recently introduced to the fishery and a task force comprising industry and government representatives is currently deliberating...

The prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria is worth $100 million/year and a large proportion of this is from catches of banana prawns. In one stage of their complex life history, banana prawn larvae are carried by ocean currents from their spawning grounds to the estuarine nursery...