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cover printing, postage and ongoing development costs (www.marineconservation.
org.au/seafood). The 3-step pocket guides can be ordered by educational bodies in
bulk free of charge direct from the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
The species that appear in the Guide were chosen from amongst Australia's most
popular domestic seafood species. Seafood markets were visited around the country
to assess the 'regionality' of species, and this influenced the species selection - the
most commonly observed species were chosen for review. Both the common and
scientific names of species are used in the Guide and these are consistent with
those developed by Yearsley et al . (2001) (www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/
pshz.html) and are used by the fishing industry and Standards Australia to develop
a standardised list of marketing names for seafood species (www.seafoodservices.
com.au/fishnames/).
Both wild-capture and aquaculture-produced species were reviewed in the Guide.
Wild-capture species included those caught by a range of methods, e.g. prawn and
finfish trawl methods, gill and seine nets, surface and seabed longlines, fish traps and
hand collection. Species produced in aquaculture production included freshwater
and marine species farmed or ranched using various methods, e.g. intensive open
systems such as seacages (for finfish species), enclosed systems such as ponds and
tanks (for both finfish, crustaceans and molluscs) and extensive open systems such
as lines and racks (principally for molluscs).
Imported species were not assessed due to the immense difficulty of getting
relevant information about their sources, methods of capture or production, stock
status and fisheries management regimes. The quantity of seafood imports into
Australia continues to increase, and devising a method to assess the sustainability
of imported species remains a challenge that must be confronted in the future.
19.2.1
Funding
The original funding for the development of the Guide in 2004 was provided by
The Myer Foundation. The Myer Foundation is a major Australian philanthropic
organisation and one of the few which readily supports conservation organisations
and programmes which are political (but non-partisan) in nature. The production
of the 2006 Guide was funded by the Australian Marine Conservation Society's
internal donor base.
19.2.2 Information sources
The Guide was developed by the staff of the Australian Marine Conservation Soci-
ety. Fisheries and conservation experts were consulted informally at various stages
during the Guide's development regarding the Guide's content, style and approach.
All information contained in the Guide was sourced from BRS Fisheries Status Re-
port 2004, the Australian Department of Environment Strategic Fishery Assessment
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