Fishing, Aquaculture

The industry on WA's south coast says the state government is taking an "untrustworthy" approach to the creation of a new marine park in the region.

A study of fish sold in supermarkets and restaurants around Australia finds nearly 12 per cent of seafood is mislabelled, as researchers call for more stringent labelling laws.

For a long time a lot of the region's wild-caught barra was sent to southern states for processing, but Darwin's first major fish processing facility aims to cut the distance fresh seafood travels before hitting local plates.

A whale conservation group reacts angrily to the SA government's decision to permanently allow year-round commercial rock lobster fishing in a breeding area, intended to give the industry more flexibility.

Australia's largest seafood producer buys the country's only ocean-based barramundi farm, situated off the Kimberley coast.

Wearing helmets as heavy as a medieval suit of armour, divers had one hour to fill their baskets with pearl or trochus shells.

A group representing fishermen in south-east Australia says it will be forced to stop cooperating with offshore wind projects if shark fishing is further restricted in marine parks.

New catch limits for east coast Spanish mackerel have inflated costs for North Queensland fishers, forcing many out of the industry.

When Liza Putzka's husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer they were forced to wind down their Spanish mackerel fishing business. She always thought she could sell their licence and boat and retire comfortably — but that is not the case.

Did you know South Australia is home to the only great white shark cage-diving tour in Australia? It's been around since the 1970s, but some locals aren't a fan.

A father shares the moment he "hugged" a shark and shot it in the eye with a spear near Coral Bay to avoid being bitten, as his helpless family watched from a boat.

Fishing is all Queensland's Clint Waldon has ever known, but he's worried new regulations banning the use of gillnets will see the end of his business and decimate the industry.

Third-generation fisherman Clint Waldon fears the gillnet bans will decimate the industry.

Fried calamari rings? You may want to think twice — the Tasmanian government is proposing a reduction in the number of calamari fishery licenses.

Scientists and Indigenous rangers are studying why humpback whales are returning to waters off the Northern Territory after decades of being largely absent. 

In Australia's Red Centre, seafood had to be trucked more than 1,500 kilometres from the northern and southern coasts — and as the price of fuel skyrockets, fishmongers are being forced to pass on the cost.

After 60 years at Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula the Tunarama festival is ending due to sponsorship woes.

A seafood industry advocate says increases to the protected marine national park area off Queensland's coast will drive up the price of seafood and open the door to imported products.

Traditions such as the tuna toss will be shelved on the Eyre Peninsula after a major festival struggled to attract enough sponsorship.

To boost fish numbers in a secluded dam, a NSW council teams up with volunteers to drop stockpiles of logs and rocks into the water.

Long before sunrise, dozens of people gather around boats along a portion of Venezuela's vast Caribbean coast, their tanned bodies shaped from years of fishing. Most are men, but a growing number are women.

Marron is a highly sought after restaurant delicacy, but native water rats have become this farmer's latest consumer, eating the crayfish from the inside out.

Sam was fed up with the amount of plastic pollution in the ocean, so he made a raft of marine debris — now, after nervously watching it get wet for the first time, he is planning to sail it from southern Tasmania to Sydney to highlight the problem of waste management.

Fisheries Queensland says new catch limits are to rebuild the fishery for future generations, but the state's peak seafood body says new reductions to Spanish mackerel quotas are "nonsense".

The opera house yabby net is set to be banned because it causes unnecessary deaths to air-breathing animals like the rakali. But there are fears the discontinued equipment will be an environmental hazard cluttering riverbanks.