The ranching of Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) has been a major success story in the expansion of the Australian aquaculture industry, although it has not been without its challenges. Since 1990, the industry has steadily expanded to produce about 9000 tonnes of gilled and gutted SBT annually with an...

River regulation and freshwater flow extraction for irrigation, industrial use, town water supplies etc are common practices across Australia, and have caused severe impact on the water-dependent ecosystems including estuarine environments and coastal fisheries. In recent years, the need of...

The Australian Wild Caught Abalone industry is at a crossroads—although widely regarded (and priced accordingly) as somewhat of a prestigious, luxury food item, it is currently very much traded as a commodity product. The industry is now in a precarious situation where it is “sitting on a knife...

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...