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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.
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.
Fishing ships of Australia (23 P) R. Recreational fishing in Australia (12 P) S. Seafood companies of Australia (4 P) Pages in category "Fishing in Australia"
Australia's marine domain, our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), is one of the largest in the world, covering around 10 million square kilometres. This is larger than mainland Australia (7.69 million square kilometres). Australia has a long history of Indigenous, commercial and recreational fishing (including charter fishing) in our waters.
Count Capture Aquaculture Total China 308,380 10,855,295 11,163,675 Philippines 298 1,338,597 1,338,895 Indonesia 7,730 910,636 918,366 South Korea 15,212 621,154 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The farming of cultured pearls remains an important part of the Kimberley economy, worth A$67 million in 2014 and is the second largest fisheries industry in Western Australia after rock lobster. [ 4 ]