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CSIRO Salmon cages. Australia's aquaculture industry has an annual value of more than $600 million and is expanding at the rate of 20% per year. Aquaculture in Australia is the country's fastest-growing primary industry, accounting for 34% of the total gross value of production of seafood.
For its land-size, Australia has a low diversity of native freshwater fish with only 281 described species. [1] This is largely because Australia is a very dry continent with sporadic rainfall and large areas of desert. There is a higher diversity of salt water fish. The most common freshwater fish are: Murray cod; Australian bass; Other ...
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) is the Australian Government agency responsible for the management and sustainable use of fisheries resources including combating illegal fishing activities in the Australian Fishing Zone [2] [3] that covers 8,148,250 square kilometres, the third largest in the world, [4] and in most of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends to ...
Seafood in Australia comes from local and international commercial fisheries, aquaculture and recreational anglers. [1] It is an economically important sector, and along with agriculture and forestry contributed $24,744 million to Australia's GDP in year 2007–2008, out of a total GDP of $1,084,146 million.
The fishing industry includes any industry or activity that takes, cultures, processes, preserves, stores, transports, markets or sells fish or fish products. It is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization as including recreational , subsistence and commercial fishing , as well as the related harvesting, processing , and marketing ...
They have economic importance in the fishing industry and fish farming; these industries provide some people with an income, and the general population with fish as food. Other practical uses of fish include recreational fishing and their use in biological research. Fish play symbolic roles in religion, mythology, folklore, and fairy tale ...
Fishing industry by country. ... Australia: 165,059 125,231 ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...