A new range of environmental factors is to be added to the calculations used to set the commercial annual catch from Australia’s Southern Rocklobster fishery Rocklobsters take cover during stormy weather and are harder catch. Photo: SARDI By Karin Derkley New research has verified the...

To help consumers better understand the health benefits of seafood, some of Australia’s most popular species have undergone nutritional evaluation Super Seafood is the Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre’s new guide that details the nutritional analysis of our 20 most popular seafood...

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The organisation that has spearheaded efforts to provide a common, national naming system for Australia’s diverse seafood has closed its doors. Seafood Services Australia (SSA), which operated the Fish Names website, announced on 22 July that it would cease trading. Established in...

Rhy Arangio By Catherine Norwood Depredation of catches in longline fisheries is an increasing problem worldwide: whales and seals can steal up to 75 per cent of the catch from hooks as the lines are being hauled aboard. While it is still a relatively rare phenomenon in Australia’s...