Sustainable growth in aquaculture across Australia’s north could help local industry meet increasing global demand for high-quality protein There is scope to expand northern Australia’s farmed prawn industry – which embodies world best practice environmentally while producing record yields –...

Midway between Victoria and Tasmania, King Island is a major trading centre for some of Australia’s highest-value wild-catch fisheries Grassy Harbour, King Island, is one of Tasmania’s top landing ports for Southern Rocklobsters (Jasus edwardsii). Photos: Catherine Norwood By Catherine...

Additional research and testing facilities will improve the responsiveness of disease-management efforts for Tasmania’s expanding salmonid aquaculture industry Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) being vaccinated with Corrovac in a field trial run by Huon Aquaculture Company. Photo: Richard...

With the health and wellbeing of fisheries, fishers and entire communities at stake, fisheries economists argue that more than a ‘gut feeling’ is needed when considering the financial and social implications of policy decisions Illustration: Paul Dickenson By Bianca Nogrady How do you...

From its origins in the Murray–Darling Basin rivers and streams, the Murray Cod is finding its way onto more urban menus through Marianvale Blue’s successful aquaculture operations John Breen, general manager of Marianvale Blue, with a young Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii). Photo: Julie...