Good relationships are the backbone of Mervi Kangas’s life’s work on the water, as she strives to ensure commercial fisheries remain sustainable
By Melissa Marino
Mervi Kangas never tires of a good sunset. She has been privileged to see quite a few spectacular skies as the sun dipped below an...
Camera technology lights the way towards improved stock assessments as researcher Tony Courtney discovers in his search for ways to better understand Queensland’s Scallop fishery
Sea scallops in buckets.
Photo: NOAA Fisheries
As the adage goes, counting fish is like counting trees, except...
Marine and coastal biodiversity, ecosystems, species and genetic material – provide enormous benefits for human well-being. Coastal ecosystems provide services, including tourism and protection from storms, valued at nearly US$26 billion annually (Action Plan for the Sustainable Oceans Initiative...
Midway between Victoria and Tasmania, King Island is a major trading centre for some of Australia’s highest-value wild-catch fisheries
Grassy Harbour, King Island, is one of Tasmania’s top landing ports for Southern Rocklobsters (Jasus edwardsii).
Photos: Catherine Norwood
By Catherine...
AI tools are being developed to complement fishery-dependent data to improve stock assessments for Tasmanian fisheries.
By Catherine Norwood
Key target scalefish species are the focus of efforts to train Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered fish recognition systems as part of new...