Fishing and Aquaculture Industry

Country of origin seafood labelling laws will be introduced to Australian food service outlets from the first of July.  At a time of spiralling costs and mounting political pressure, the long-awaited laws could deliver a boost to local seafood producers.

South Australia's peak seafood body says a short supply of some species due to the algal bloom and commercial fishing restrictions has led to slight price increases, as it warns it could take industry five to 10 years to fully recover.

Karumba's rich fishing industry dates back to the roaring, prawning era of the 60s, but major blows are seeing a seafood decline. However, the Gulf of Carpentaria residents say they "wouldn't live anywhere else".

The Victorian Fisheries Authority wants to host a carp virus trial, but the federal government says it needs regulatory approval, which will delay research. 

The largest operator in Australia's most valuable prawn fishery wraps up banana prawn season a month early because catch numbers were so high.

Where tonnes of Tasmania's dead salmon went.

High-volume salmon mortalities last year swamped Tasmania's waste streams as companies scrambled to find somewhere to accept them, documents show. There are now concerns the state remains unprepared for future mass deaths.

After decades of fighting for their traditional fishing rights, Aboriginal custodians are now fighting to save their sea country from ecological collapse. 

New research links seismic testing used for oil and gas exploration with decreases in commercial fish catch rates in Victoria's east.

The owners of a Bunbury seafood business raise money to fund a legal challenge against the WA government's controversial demersal fishing ban.

One of South Australia's main fishing zones will remain closed for another year to allow stocks to recover from the algal bloom, sparking concerns from fishers over their future and warnings of price increases for consumers.

A proposed relaxation of import rules for uncooked prawns has angered Australia’s prawn fishers and farmers complying with strict domestic biosecurity rules to contain white spot disease.  Deadly to prawns but safe for humans, white spot has led to bans on selling uncooked prawns in affected regions, leaving some fishers and communities struggling to survive.

Murray cod numbers have bounced back across much of Victoria and NSW, and that's good news for the whole Murray-Darling Basin ecosystem.

While testing has shown a dramatic improvement in South Australia's algal bloom situation, industry and experts fear it won't be a quick recovery.

Almost 3 tonnes of the antibiotic florfenicol were used at one Tasmanian salmon farm lease in just two months, with information on its use across eight other sites yet to be released to the public by authorities.

Oyster growing areas on the Yorke Peninsula are ordered to close due to the detection of a toxic phytoplankton for the second time this year.

A new advertising campaign featuring the stories of workers adjacent to Tasmania's fish farming industry is launched amid calls for the sector to be shut down. 

The once-abundant pale octopus has not been caught in lower Spencer Gulf for more than a year, and what happened to the species remains a mystery.

Commercial fishers question their future as they compete with ravenous long-nosed seals that continue to rip man-sized holes in fish nets in South Australia's Coorong.

Jono Ridler swam 1,367 kilometres down New Zealand's east coast to raise awareness for ocean health and to end bottom trawling. His exploits have galvanised a nation.