Australian abalone (Haliotis spp) support major commercial fisheries in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales with total catches from these States being around 5500t in 2004-05. Of this catch, Tasmania is the largest producer with approximately 50% of the total...

In recent decades, the incidental take of bycatch species has become an important issue in trawl fisheries worldwide. There has also recently been an increased focus towards ecosystem-based fishery management as a result of greater environmental concern for marine resources. Within the Northern...

This project gives effect to a successful Rural R&D for Profit application Oyster sales in Australia have been relatively static for the last decade. The need to shuck oysters is the biggest barrier to increasing oyster consumption. To overcome this, the Seafood CRC invented a method of partially...

The SBT Industry The aquaculture of southern bluefin tuna (SBT) has been a major success story in the expansion of the Australian aquaculture industry. The industry, which started in 1990, has expanded to produce about 8,200 tonnes of gilled and gutted tuna, worth about $264 million in 2000/2001...