The Australian mud crab fisheries extend from northern Western Australia across the Northern Territory and Qqueensland through to northern New South Wales and sells to a common market valued at almost $50M/year. However, it is apparent that, while product is going into a national market with many common issues to resolve, there is insufficient cross-jurisdictional connectivity with agencies appearing to generally operate in isolation. Although high-quality work is undertaken across jurisdictions; from an industry perspective R&D, monitoring and management approaches didn’t appear coordinated enough, with no national marketing plan. This investment will support a national planning workshop to share experiences and understandings and identify issues and opportunities for collaborative approaches across the industry and agencies. The project will also build industry cohesion and capacity through development of a national industry plan and communication network.