This project lead to a large number of outcomes that provided significant benefit to the Australian live mud crab industry supply chain. These include:
Agreement on an easy to use, national, industry-driven, grading scheme for live mud crabs (the Australian Industry Live Mud Crab Grading...
The project facilitated on-going discussion within industry on eco-certification for the Australian seafood industry.
The project demonstrated that clear benefits can be gained from eco-certification and that there are numerous certification programs available to industry. This is consistent with...
The original Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Report – “Comanagement: Managing Australia’s fisheries through partnership and delegation” Project No. 2006/068 – was reviewed and found to remain rigorous, relevant and appropriate as a guide to...
Issues surrounding access to fisheries resources and their allocation among competing parties go back to early feudal times in England where the Magna Carta was thought to be responsible for establishing the common law principle of the public right to fish in tidal waters, with fish being deemed to...