The Division of Fisheries was created on 1 January 1988 and replaced the former Division of Fisheries Research. The Division forms part of the CSIRO Institute of Natural Resources and Environment.
 
The Division plays a vital role in many areas of research both internal and on projects linked to other organisations at state, national and international level.
 
The Australian fisheries and aquaculture industry are heavily reliant on research undertaken by the Division.
 
Some areas in which the Division has been involved in research include:
  the southern blue fin tuna database;
  research on the southern shark fishery;
  monitoring of commercial fish stock numbers to provide data on
   which catch quotas are based;
  research into the tropical prawn ecology; and
  searching for new stocks of exploitable fish species.

As part of a rationalisation process to reduce the number of Divisions and Units in the CSIRO framework, the Division of Fisheries was amalgamated with the Division of Oceanography and resulted in the creation of the new Division of Marine Research on 1 February 1997.

Sources:
Mercury Newspaper, 15 July 1993
Evolution of the CSIRO 1926-1991
CSIRO Annual Report 1996-97 (Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper no. 217 of 1997)
Historical agency address
Castray Esplanade, Hobart