“It’s always in the back of your mind. You talk about if anything happens. He always showed me what to do if the boat flips over or anything. How to get out… but, upside down everything is different.” These are the words of Michael Williams, the man who swam more than 20 kilometers to get help […]
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Membership Sales Consultant About us Seafood Industry Australia (SIA) is the national peak-body representing the whole of Australia’s seafood industry with members from the wild-caught, aquaculture and postharvest sectors. As the voice of Australian seafood, SIA provides consumers, Government and other stakeholders with confident and united representation. Our unity indicates a love for what we […]
Study assessing the trawling footprint of Australian fisheries finds less than 3.5% affected
The first national picture of the footprint of bottom trawling on Australia’s seabed habitats has just been released. Overall, less than 3.5% of the Australian seabed was found to be affected by trawling in recent years. Although this figure varies regionally, it is among the lowest footprints recorded worldwide. The work analysed the most comprehensive […]
Seafood Industry Australia replies to “Classification of marine microdebris: A review and case study on fish from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia”, Frederieke J. Kroon, Cherie E. Motti, Lene H. Jensen and Kathryn L. E. Berry, as published in Scientific Reports
Seafood Industry Australia (SIA), the national peak body representing the Australian seafood industry, has called for more research to be done following the recent finding of microplastics in the gut of juvenile coral trout on the Great Barrier Reef. “This research is a cause for concern, but ultimately more research needs to be done,” SIA […]