The rapidly developing international tuna aquaculture industry started with a joint Japan/ Australia experiment in 1991. Since then it has grown into the largest finfish aquaculture in Australia with an export value of $290 million. It is based on the capture of wild fish and subsequent fattening of...

The Western Australian Pearling Industry is totally reliant on quotas of wild stock silver- or goldlip pearl oysters, Pinctada maxima. Any sustainable expansion of the Industry is unlikely to occur unless hatchery-propagated oysters become available as an alternative source to wild stock....

Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS), the disease caused by OsHV-1 microvariant, results in high and rapid mortality in Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) and has been responsible for significant economic loss to oyster industries in Australia and around the world. The diversification of...