Spanner crabs (Ranina ranina) represent a valuable single-species fishery in Queensland. Although a transparent and effective assessment process was developed some years ago for setting the commercial total allowable catch (TAC), additional information was needed to reduce some of the uncertainty in...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Until the 1990s, when it became possible to access and analyse DNA directly from the environment, the study of microbiology was limited to studying microbes that were able to be grown in artificial culture. The advent of DNA-based methods provided a way to access and study the enormous diversity of...
A 5-day, intensive Shellfish Diseases Workshop was held at NSW Fisheries' Brackish Water Fish Culture Research Station, Salamander Bay, from 6-10 December 1993.
The workshop was organized by Sub-Committee on Fish Health, a sub-committee of Animal Health Committee. It was attended by...
The East Coast Tunas and Billfishes Research Program was funded by the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account (FIRTA F86/127) from July 1986 to June 1988.
The objectives of the program were to identify the stock(s) exploited by the east coast tuna and billfish fisheries, examine the structure of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
The research presented in this report was led by Charles Darwin University and conducted in collaboration with the University of Melbourne and the Fisheries Division of the Northern Territory (NT) Department of Primary Industries and Resources (DPIR). A novel statistical modelling framework based on...
Prawn farming is the most valuable aquaculture sector in Queensland and is a priority development industry for the State Government. Marine prawns have provided the major growth in this industry with a value of $37 million in 2000/01, or over 66% of the value of Queensland aquaculture. Nevertheless...