Most of Australia's Commonwealth and State fisheries are managed with due consideration of optimising the economic returns to the community from utilisation of those fisheries resources. The Commonwealth Harvest Strategy Policy (DAFF 2007) is a key policy that guides the harvest of commercial...

Western Australia's extensive coastline is currently underutilized for marine finfish production, yet a recent Aquaculture Development Council discussion paper pointed out that aquaculture sites along this coastline can collectively host between 25,000 and 100,000 tons of annual finfish production....