Finfish aquaculture has the potential to be a major and increasingly important industry in Western Australia (WA); however, the requirement for start-up aquaculture operators to undertake a number of Government approvals processes is inhibitive to the growth of the industry. In many cases, the time...

The discharge of ballast water from one port into another is not a recent phenomena, although its importance as a dispersal mechanism for marine species has only been fully realized in the last decade with increasing volumes of ballast water being discharged and more studies being carried out on the...