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,...

There is evidence to suggest that some of Queensland’s major commercial and recreational fisheries are affected by physical oceanographic conditions and that in order to improve our ability to assess, forecast and manage stocks, some understanding of these influences is required. In the past,...

Clean Seas Tuna Ltd. (CST) as a participant in the Australian Seafood Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) has a suite of nine research projects addressing the nine objectives set out in the overarching proposal 2007/707 “Resolving larval rearing, juvenile development and productivity constraints for...

Within the framework of the Commonwealth Harvest Strategy Policy, AFMA has adopted clear decision rules to set catch limits for commercially targeted species in Commonwealth fisheries. In several fisheries they have adopted a tiered harvest strategy framework that specifies both assessment methods...

In 2008-2009, 46 wild Queensland (QLD) gropers, Epinephelus lanceolatus, a protected species under the Fisheries Regulation 2008, were found dead between Mackay and the Daintree River in north Queensland. Most deaths occurred in highly urbanised areas including Cairns and Port Douglas, with peak...