5 Mar 2026 | Seafood, Fisheries & Marine
Harmful algal blooms are becoming more frequent across Australian waters, and when they occur, regulators can move quickly to close fisheries, disrupt supply chains and expose seafood businesses to significant legal and financial risk. INTRODUCTION In recent years,...
3 Mar 2026 | Seafood, Fisheries & Marine
Australia’s marine environment is governed by an increasingly complex intersection of conservation law, fisheries regulation and international biodiversity commitments. As marine protected areas expand and environmental scrutiny intensifies, commercial fisheries are...
26 Feb 2026 | Seafood, Fisheries & Marine
Invasive marine species are no longer a hypothetical risk for Australia’s seafood, aquaculture and commercial fishing sectors—they are an operational, legal and reputational reality. As ocean temperatures rise, shipping traffic intensifies, and coastal infrastructure...
24 Feb 2026 | Seafood, Fisheries & Marine
The closure of commercial fishing activity across parts of Western Australia’s west coast from December has been one of the most disruptive regulatory interventions the sector has faced in decades. For many licence holders and crew, the sudden cessation of fishing has...
19 Feb 2026 | Seafood, Fisheries & Marine
Climate-driven mass mortalities in Tasmanian salmon aquaculture are no longer a “once in a decade” anomaly. Warmer waters, lower dissolved oxygen, shifting currents, and more frequent marine heatwaves can push farm systems past biological limits fast—sometimes within...
