New technology and more sophisticated data systems are helping fishers and managers offer greater assurance on sustainable fishing practices By Tom Bicknell The increased complexity of fisheries management and greater scrutiny of the industry overall is leading to an increase in the monitoring...

Executive director Patrick Hone reflects on his time with the FRDC and charts some of its major changes as it celebrates 25 years Team FRDC circa 2000 with executive director Peter Dundas-Smith. By Patrick Hone The FRDC is one of Australia’s 15 Research and Development Corporations...

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Creating models to test choices and consequences, Tony Smith AM has provided new tools for better fisheries management Tony Smith By Catherine Norwood Mathematics and ecology may have been what first brought CSIRO chief research scientist Tony Smith to the seafood sector, but the human...

From solid scientific foundations, the FRDC will expand communication efforts to the food-service sector Chef Colin Barker (left) from Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, NSW, with Anthony Huckstep. By Peter Horvat With the June issue of FISH, I reach a personal milestone: it is my...