FRC Environmental's capabilities are focused on aquatic environments: freshwater, estuarine and marine. In this broad area we are able to provide a range of allied capabilities including environmental planning, coastal and hydraulic engineering. The following sections provide some examples of our 'core' capabilities.

FRC's operations are grouped into three areas:

• Environmental research, monitoring and management;
• Fisheries research; and
• Aquaculture

FRC's expertise and experience in selected fields of study are presented in detail in the following hyperlinked pages

• Coastal Zone and Riparian Management
• Impact assessment
• Design of Survey and Environmental Monitoring Programs
• Seagrass, mangrove and saltmarsh ecosystems - wetland rehabilitation
• Mosquito and biting midge control
• Sewage Plume Tracking Using Stable Isotope Analysis
• Coastal fish and fisheries
• Freshwater wetlands, aquatic macrophytes, fish and fisheries- constructed wetlands
• Freshwater macro-invertebrates SIGNAL Index and related assessments
• Environmental flow requirements
• Effects of dredging and spoil deposition
• Effects of nutrient enrichment of acid sulphates, heavy metals and pesticides on rivers estuaries and reefs
• Effects of flow alteration and impoundments
• Aquaculture: Freshwater and marine fin-fish and crustacean culture
• Management of noxious fishes and exclusion of sharks and stingers
• Coral Reef Ecosystems
• Fisheries Survey and Assessment
• Marine and Estuarine Benthic Invertebrate Monitoring
• Sediment Sampling & Analysis