The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) is Australia’s leading agency concerned with planning, investing in, and managing fisheries research, development and extension.
The FRDC is a statutory corporation founded in 1991 under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development (PIERD) Act 1989. It is responsible to the Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry.
The FRDC’s mission is to maximise economic, environmental and social benefits for its stakeholders through effective investment and partnership in research, development and extension.
Closer Does Not Mean More Abundant: Tuna Shifts Its Map in the Pacific Worldwide
The warming of the Pacific is modifying the distribution of several tuna species in the Eastern Pacific, temporarily bringing them closer to the California coast. For the industry, this signal does no...