During the past three years in particular, the levels of impact on the environment of professional fishing practices have become a significant factor in the on-going debate within the general community about the future of the professional industry. At the same time, the concept of ecosystem based...

FISHERY SYNTHESIS A major purse seine fishery for small pelagics developed off Tasmania in the mid-1980s, with catches peaking at over 40,000 t in the late 1980s (Pullen 1994a). The fishery was based on surface schooling jack mackerel (Trachurus declivis) with catches that were prone to large...

In early 2003 the Centre for Legumes in Meditteranean Agriculture (CLIMA), a multi-institutional research centre based at the University of WA, initiated a negotiated Grains R&D Corporation (GRDC) project that examined the development and evaluation of grain-based protein concentrates for use by the...

A major bottleneck in the development of many new marine fish species for aquaculture in Australia is the production of high quality juveniles (Battaglene and Fielder 1997). According to the Australian Fisheries Statistics 2002 (ABARE, 2003) only three species of fish are cultivated from eggs and...

The western blue groper Achoerodus gouldii, the queen snapper (southern blue morwong) Nemadactylus valenciennesi and the bar-tailed flathead Platycephalus endrachtensis are important recreational fish species in Western Australia and contribute ca 85 tonnes annually to the overall commercial finfish...