Priority R&D focus for many sectors and agencies is on improving management and sustainability of our marine and estuarine environments for multi-users, and ensuring social licence to operate. This proposal has been developed to validate the novel use of biosensors on sentinel individuals to provide...

In December 2005/January 2006, a disease outbreak caused high mortality rates in abalone from two land-based farms in Victoria. Two other, marine-based farms also experienced disease but to a lesser extent. The abalone species affected by the disease are Haliotis laevigata, H. rubra, and H....

There has been increasing focus and emphasis on the ecological sustainability of human development, including development involving fisheries, in the last several decades. But in the last decade a potentially confusing range of different names and concepts are being used to describe and guide this....

Challenge 1: Improve the sustainability of natural resources supporting wild-catch and aquaculture. • improve governance, policies, and methods in wild-catch management; in particular review and assess abalone fishery stock assessment performance indicators, assessments and management objectives,...

State and Territory and National Seafood Awards are run every two years the FRDC gets asked to sponsor both jurisdictional and national seafood awards. Historically the FRDC has sponsored the R&D Award. In 2017, the FRDC changed direction and sponsored the fish and chip category in an endeavour to...