The Northern Territory's mud crab industry will not supply crabs to the market this Christmas after a decision to close its fisheries for three months. It came after a harvest strategy assessment ...

Dampier Peninsula and Cape Leveque offer the perfect getaway for the adventurous traveller. Stretching 220 kilometres north from Broome, the only access to the area is via the partially unsealed Cape ...

Half a dozen crab traps, shiny and new, lay in the bottom of our 1973 outboard. A package of chicken scraps waited to do their part in catching our supper. My new fishing license hid with Hank’s in a ...

Each step through the mud felt like a gamble - stingrays beneath, sharks offshore, and a feast waiting if I was brave enough ...

It is a game of search and dredge. The trawler Phyllis Ann’s first tow of the day, made at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, returned just a half-bushel of blue crabs and a mess of unsalable spider ...