Fisheries-related resources are finite and the need to share these resources among competing uses is inevitable. These resource sharing issues can be extremely contentious, politically difficult, and are often a significant drain on fisheries management agencies’ and stakeholders’...
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...
The Business Nous Project (BN) research and outputs have been finalised in November 2019 with the completion of the website and workshop outputs and the project evaluation. The project delivered successfully on three of the four objectives with the workshop component of the project is being held in...
The report details the production performance and health performance of Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) and Giant Groper (Epinephelus lanceolatus) reared in tanks, ponds and cages within a farm in the previously white spot syndrome virus affected region of the Logan River, Queensland.
Findings of this...
Tuna, swordfish and marlin kebabs were launched onto the Australian Domestic market at the wholesale level in December 1999. Two types of kebabs, Frozen and Chilled, are packaged in 50 x 100g portions. The chilled kebabs are sold interleaved in a polystyrene esky with a specially designed sleeve and...
The seafood industry and the environment - interference or legitimate public concern?
A two day workshop on the problems facing the Australian seafood industry in environmental matters, held at National Surveyors' House, Deakin ACT, on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th January 1996.
Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing...