Tasmanian Seafoods has identified stock enhancement as a means to improve the viability of sea cucumber harvesting operations in Northern Australia. Successful enhancement of the fishery has the potential increase catches, reduce harvesting time, and improve the operational efficiency and management...

This project evaluated the benefits of a rotational harvest strategy (the Rotational Zoning Scheme - RZS) in the Queensland East Coast Sea Cucumber (Bêche-de-mer) Fishery and found that, in general, the current management arrangements result in a low risk to most fishery species and reduce the...