The Western Rocklobster industry (and the fishing industry in general) is experiencing a labour shortage, with many fishers experiencing difficulty obtaining skilled crew, particularly as returns on investment decrease and labour shifts to other primary and resource industry sectors. To address...
The Australian Seafood Industries’ (ASI) breeding program is now in its eighth generation of selectively bred Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) families, concentrating in South Australia and Tasmania on increased turnover, shell shape and uniformity. The Select Oyster Company (SOCo) of New South...
The commercial fishing industry has operated in Australian waters for over a century, often in areas without other resource extraction activities taking place, but in recent years there has been a significant increase for exploration of oil and gas in many of these same waters. This exploration...
The Black jewfish (Protonibea diacanthus) is a large-bodied species of croaker that is highly prized for its table qualities. Black jewfish are aggressive and aggregative in behaviour, have strong spatial population structure and are highly susceptible to barotrauma. They have been heavily...
Four FRDC initiatives have been officially endorsed by the United Nations Ocean Decade, a bold 10-year campaign to advance and address pressing challenges in world oceans.
FRDC Capability and Capacity Manager Sally Roberts, says this prestigious distinction highlights the vital role FRDC...
Seafood CRC participants have identified the need to improve competitiveness and profitability through improved supply chain management as one of their highest priorities. This is reflected in the outputs and milestones of the Seafood CRC agreement, the CRC OzSeaValue theme and plans of various CRC...
Seafood on Spencer
On a sunny Saturday in late March, thousands of people flocked to a sold-out Seafood on Spencer festival. Held on the foreshore at Port Broughton on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, the festival was organised by a committee of local fishing families and other...
Citizen science has made an important contribution to an FRDC-funded project to predict the impact of climate change on three fish species of increasing recreational and commercial importance in Tasmania.
Dr Barrett Wolfe of IMAS processing fish frames. Photo - IMAS, Univesity of...