The problem of deterioration of the crab flesh, commonly called 'mushiness', has been widely known, and mostly ignored, for many years. When mushiness occurs, the normally firm and resilient crab muscle loses integrity and becomes soft. A mushy crab is externally indistinguishable from one with firm...

The bursary was awarded to Maria Mitris of Pacific Reef Fisheries to undertake a personal development opportunity with respect to the marketing of seafood products. Maria completed the Agribusiness Executive Program which comprises of training modules in marketing market realities, successful...

This aim of this final report was to develop technology for automatic grading and packing of prawns. We have demonstrated the technical feasibility, and indicated the economic feasibility, of automatically producing single-layer 'consumer' tray packs of prawns so that, in every tray, each prawn has...

The objective of this report was to ascertain the feasibility for the Geraldton Fishermen's Co-operative (GFC) to export Western Australian Western Rock Lobsters (Panulirus cygnus) into the new and emerging market opportunities of India at a comparative price premium when benchmarked against other...