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2018-06-01

The mark of a leader

Leadership program proves valuable to sector into the future Below Helen Jenkins and Alex Ogg with their ARLP group, at the beginning of the program in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. Photo: Alex Ogg By Gio Braidotti Queensland’s Helen Jenkins was in the midst of her 15-month...
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Netting data to bury phanton fishing

Coordinating data collection and collaborating with fishers are key requirements in successfully dealing with the global issue of ghost gear The Global Ghost Gear Initiative website highlights clean-up activities around the world. By Annabel Boyer Lost fishing gear represents about 10 per...
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On-country fishing brings broader benefits

Fresh food and community pride are two of the benefits that come with the opportunity to expand fishing activities for the Northern Territory’s remote coastal Indigenous communities Don Wilton with a great catch at Nardilmuk. Photos: Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation By Annabel Boyer In...
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Local catch makes a splash

Seafood enterprises in Queensland’s Mackay region are finding new ways to add value to consumer experiences and community wellbeing Story and photos by Melissa Marino Mackay, sitting midway between Brisbane and Cairns, is a city of more than 120,000 people in the heart of sugarcane and...
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Cooperative approach on seismic impacts

Western Australia’s pearl industry is taking a new tack with seismic surveyors and oil and gas explorers By Bianca Nogrady The last wild-stock fishery of the Silverlip Pearl Oyster (Pinctada maxima), the world’s largest and rarest pearl oyster, lies just offshore from the remote Eighty...
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The number cruncher

When it comes to fisheries data, Nadia Engstrom is the ‘go-to’ person in Queensland Nadia Engstrom Photo: Paul Harris By Anne Crawford When Nadia Engstrom was young she loved catching prawns in Perth’s Swan River in Western Australia. Now as Queensland’s principal fisheries research...
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Fish-X cuts to the core of new business opportunities

Shark Bay Seafood’s Wild Scampi Caviar, from WA, is one of the new seafoods Platinum Provedore promoted to chefs. Photo: James Barnes Destination Food By Rebecca Thyer Fish-X ‘micro-hack’ participants came together in Brisbane in February for a two-day, hands-on workshop. The aim was to...
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Keeping community together

The flow-on effects of successful fisheries businesses contribute to improved community wellbeing in diverse spheres Below left Shaun Macklin from the Dysart Bulls Masters team. Photo: Melissa Macklin The small town of Dysart has been hit hard in recent times. About 250 kilometres south-west...
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Science briefs

Second Red Handfish population found Handfish Divers from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Tasmania and the citizen science project Reef Life Survey (RLS) have discovered a new population of what is believed to be the world’s rarest fish. Until early this year, only one...
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Have fish, will travel

Sharon Petersen reckons she has the best job in the world, bringing seafood to far-flung communities around the Mackay region Sharon Petersen packs her truck in preparation for her Mornabah run. While Debbie and Mark Ahern’s car was effectively Debbie’s Seafood’s first mobile retail vehicle...
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