The New South Wales demersal trap fishery is a complex, multi-species fishery. The most valuable species in the fishery is snapper, worth approximately half the value of the fishery, with bream, rubberlip morwong, ocean leatherjacket, silver trevally, sweep and pigfish accounting for a further...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
A sampling method was developed to quantify changes in the abundance of abalone on reefs in NSW from Port Stephens to the Victorian border. The method is based on the repeated sampling of the same, fixed areas and has been used each year since 1994 to provide indices of the relative abundance of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Huon Aquaculture and NSW DPI are working together to establish NSW’s first Yellowtail Kingfish (YTK) farm. Using a recently approved Marine Aquaculture Research Lease (MARL) and an existing farm site off Port Stephens, NSW, we have begun to establish NSW largest fish production facility, with...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Several critically important steps to achieving the central long-term aim of this project namely, cost-effective enhancement of abalone fisheries using hatchery produced seed stock, were achieved. The first was year-round controlled temperature conditioning and spawning of captive broodstock. This...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Seafood, unlike most other foods, can pose serious food poisoning risks simply as a result of their biology and/or the way in which they are consumed. This problem is further exacerbated by the fact that animals posing a risk do not show any signs that can easily distinguish them from...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)