This project has achieved its objectives as it has been able to deliver to representatives of local and regional industry groups the Strategic Plan drafted by the National Inshore Fisheries Working Group. Through the series of workshops under which the Plan was delivered those participating...
The National Inshore Fisheries Workshop 2015 was facilitated to allow a wide range of fisher interests from across Australia with small scale inshore fisheries to identify their issues and areas of common interest. Participants were exposed to the experiences of international, national and...
With FRDC support, Regional Larval Fish Archives (RLFAs) have been established at the Australian Museum, CSIRO Fisheries in Hobart, the Museum of Tropical Queensland, the Museum of Victoria and the South Australian Museum. In the RLFAs large larval fish collections can be deposited to be held...
The discharge of ballast water from one port into another is not a recent phenomena, although its importance as a dispersal mechanism for marine species has only been fully realized in the last decade with increasing volumes of ballast water being discharged and more studies being carried out on the...