Fuel is a vital, but costly, input to seafood production, accounting for up to 30% of the operating costs of a fishing vessel in Australia. An estimated 270 million litres of diesel fuel is currently consumed in Australian fisheries each year, as well as a substantial amount of petrol. Australia...

In recent years, Commonwealth fisheries have undergone significant change with the fishing industry subject to greater reporting requirements and accountability for ensuring ecological and economic sustainability. This change has been driven in part by the Ministerial Direction (2005) which required...

This project compliments the FRDC People Development program and the strategic challenge of fostering leadership, professionalism and capability to contribute to decision-making and implementing change. The importance of leadership development has been recognised as a significant challenge that...

The Aquaculture Innovation Hub (2008/902), under the leadership of Dr Geoff Allan, was in operation from July 2009 to improve coordination and increase collaboration among aquaculture producers and researchers, and the project was wound up in June 2012 without achieving all its objectives. It was...