"Fisheries and Aquaculture" conducts research on a wide range of fisheries management issues.  Research topics include the development of generic tools for evaluating fisheries management plans, in anticipation that future fisheries management plans will be fleet-based or fishery-based, and therefore will require a multi-species perspective.

A set of generic tools for bio-economic modeling is being developed in "FLR", the fisheries library in the R statistical language. The tools allow the easy construction of multi-fleet, multi-species fishery simulation models that can be used for various purposes, such as evaluating indicators of fishing capacity, studying how regulations influence discards, or comparing the costs and benefits of different management approaches (e.g. quotas on catches versus quotas on landings versus quotas on fishing effort, penalties for non-compliance with regulations).  There is also research on developing and validating models to identify feeding and spawning habitats of bluefin tuna and define high priority areas for protection.  The modeling approach is being extended to cover more species (e.g. small pelagic fishes).