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Fisheries
Domestic Fisheries and Aquaculture
Executive Manager, Ian Thompson
Ph: +61 2 6272 4623
Domestic Fisheries and Aquaculture
General Manager
Catherine Smith +61 2 6272 5863
DAFF develops and implements policies and programs to ensure Australia’s fisheries are competitive, profitable and sustainable. It supports Australia’s domestic fisheries and aquaculture, through research, quarantine, fish health and food safety programs, market access and trade negotiations, business development and management assistance and policy development.
Develops and reviews policy to promote competitive, profitable and sustainable fisheries industry. Working closely with AFMA in relation to fisheries management, revising jurisdictional boundaries, progressing Joint Authorities operations, legislation reviews, supporting fisheries Committees and responding to arising issues. This section also manages a program of grants for onshore fishing related businesses and fishing communities that comes under the Securing our Fishing Future package.
International Fisheries
Executive Manager
Craig Burns
Ph: +61 2 6272 3270
International Fisheries
General Manager
John Kalish
Ph: +61 2 6272 4045
Australia shares responsibility for the management of fish stocks with neighbouring countries in the Asia-Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic regions.
Australia engages in international fisheries issues on a bilateral, regional and global level, in order to promote more sustainable fisheries management practices worldwide and to achieve long-term and commercially viable access to regional migratory and straddling stocks for Australian fishers.