Australian Seafood Traceability WWF Workshop Series

by Matt Woods | Aug 19, 2021

This report describes a series of roundtable workshops on seafood traceability that were attended by representatives from organisations across the seafood sector in Australia. The aim of those workshops was to facilitate the drafting of an Australian Seafood...

Zone 2 Biomass Survey of Black Teatfish of the Queensland Sea Cucumber Fishery (East Coast)

by Matt Woods | Aug 17, 2021

At the Eighteenth Meeting of the Conference of Parties held in Geneva in 2019, the Secretariat recommended to list Black Teatfish in Appendix II the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). That listing came into effect...

Optimising Processes and Policy to Minimise Business and Operational Impacts of Seismic Surveys on the Fishing Industry and Oil and Gas Industry

by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021

The overlap and interaction between commercial fishing and the offshore oil/gas industry can at times mean both operations are negatively affected. This project aimed to work collaboratively between both industries and establish processes for effective communication...

Review of Monitoring and Assessment in the SESSF

by Matt Woods | Jul 21, 2021

The SESSF is a very large and complex fishery that covers multiple jurisdictions, multiple gear types, interacts with over 600 species and targets 34 commercially important species. The 34 target species are managed under TACs which are periodically adjusted by AFMA...

Understanding Factors Influencing Under-caught TACs, Declining Catch Rates and Failure to Recover for many Quota Species in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery

by Matt Woods | Jul 20, 2021

Despite improvements in the status Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) fish stocks, three key indicators of the performance of the fishery have raised concerns: the fishery is failing to catch the TAC’s of many quota species despite historically...

Shark Product Traceability

by admin | Dec 2, 2020

Traceability of shark products is fundamental to ensuring it is sourced from a sustainably managed fishery and to the effective operation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. This project has developed a system that...