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...

Abalone fishery assessments are very basic relative to other fisheries of comparable value and provide only general guidance for management. Consequently, management of the stock tends to evolve through adaptive management in response to year-to-year trends in catch and catch-rate trends, and...

In lieu of high-level research input, fishers have had to apply a trial and error approach to the development of better trawling systems. Trawl net design is an exceedingly complex and difficult research area because of the coupled reaction of the apparatus to the harsh environment in which it...

The microvariant of Ostreid herpesvirus type-I (OsHV-1 µVar) was first recognised in France in 2008 as the cause of high mortality disease outbreaks in Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas). This strain of OsHV-1 has emerged rapidly in many countries throughout the world, with a devastating impact on...

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...