THE Western Australian Government has announced significant and targeted management actions along the WA coast to rebuild ...

Recreational fishers say WA's new demersal catch laws are hurting regional communities Bans prohibit fishing for select species off boats for six months of the year between Augusta and Kalbarri The ...

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

Understanding the impacts of climate change on fish communities is an important piece of navigating the future, but it’s difficult to tease out the individual factors at play in natural systems. This ...

Land reclamation and channelling of the sea-bed, have paralleled major declines of demersal fish stocks. This is part of the findings of the fish resource assessment survey project conducted from ...

For 5 days, researchers subjected populations of demersal fish, which live close to the bottom of water bodies, near Australia's Pilbara Coast to varying levels of exposure to a commercial seismic ...

The European Commission has agreed on plans to extend the discard ban to demersal fish such as cod, haddock, sole and plaice caught in the Atlantic. The Commission on Monday (12 October) adopted draft ...

The wild populations that sustain a significant Indonesian fishery are more depleted than the government had estimated, as highlighted by a recent scientific study. The authors have called for a ...

In a new study, researchers took advantage of the natural oceanographic gradient in the Gulf of California to study the effects of variable oxygen levels and temperatures on demersal fish communities.