Colin Shelley is the current Manager Aquaculture, Industry
development and Policy for the Department of Primary Industries and
Fisheries. Until recently he was the Manager Aquaculture in the Northern
Territory. He has worked primarily in tropical aquaculture for the last 20
years, after starting out his career in marine biology and fisheries. He has
worked in Papua New Guinea, and Ireland, in addition to his efforts in
Australia and has consulted in Asia and the Pacific. His most recent
accomplishments in the R&D arena have been as the principal investigator in
an FRDC funded project, commercialising mud crab aquaculture in Australia,
as co-developer of a GIS system incorporating fuzzy logic for aquaculture
site identification, and in describing the sea cucumber (trepang) fishery in
the Northern Territory utilising a novel spatial-temporal method. In his
current post he has the challenge of 'opening the doors' to more aquaculture
development in Queensland.
Presentation: Profitable
Queensland Aquaculture - Aligning for Success
What is QDPI&F doing to encourage aquaculture development and how will that
impact on existing and new entrants to the industry?