While recreational fishers in Australia have targeted Swordfish in the past, both at night-time with shallow set baits and during the day with deep-set baits, success had been limited with only a few Swordfish reported landed. In 2014, adjacent to the coast of Tasmania an individual fisher had...

The main objectives of this project were to develop a purse seine fishery based on the Australian skipjack tuna resources, primarily to supply product to the cannery at Eden, and to develop a complementary purse seine fishery based on the jack mackerel resource off S.E. Australia, especially...