This project conducted the first national survey of the health, safety and wellbeing of the Australian professional fishing industry in 2017. The results of the survey provide a baseline for the state of the wild-catch industry members across a range of indicators, including reported physical and...

This research project was undertaken by a national collaboration of government and academic scientists representing key Australian crustacean fisheries. The collaborating institutions were the: Marine Ecology Research Centre – Southern Cross University, Department of Fisheries Western...

This project consists of nine research projects addressing nine objectives set out in the overarching program of activity described in project 2007/707. The nine projects collectively endeavour to resolve the larval rearing, juvenile development and productivity constraints for propagated Southern...

Keywords: Discards, elasmobranchs, post-trawl survival, Aptychotrema rostrata, Trygonoptera testacea, turtle excluder device, bycatch reduction device, TEDs, BRDs, ecological risk assessment, ERA Executive Summary: Researchers from the Queensland Government’s Department of...