Seafarmers is a marketer of quality Australian farmed seafood and has spent the past 12 months researching, developing and test marketing barramundi into the UK and European markets. Seafarmers directors have been working with the Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA) and government...
Marketing the western rock lobster has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last 5 years. For the 1993/94 season 2.8 m kg out of a catch of (ca) 11 million kg was marketed live, approximately 25.5%, compared with 5% of the catch, which was the norm 5 years ago.
The rock lobster industry has...
Measurement of stable isotope ratios of oxygen (18O:16O) and carbon (13C:12C) in the earstone (sagittal otolith) carbonate from assemblages of goldband snapper, Pristipomoides multidens, from waters off northern and western Australia revealed location-specific signatures and indicated that fish...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
The origins of many stocks of fish are unknown. As juveniles, many fish are found in estuarine regions. After a period in these habitats they may leave estuaries for coastal reefs and shelf waters where they may be commercially fished. Currently, we do not know the proportion of...
Virtually all of the research in the orginal 'Pacific oysters in New South Wales' grant (FIRTA 86/66; DAN11Z) application (1986-1989) was carried out. The major objectives of the grant were as follows:
Determination of the optimum conditions for spawning, larval survival and spat settlement of the...