The Strategic Plan summary reports as follows:
For all its economic promise the industry faces some challenges that constrain growth and profitability:
• Lack of appropriate peak body structure and supply chain fragmentation
• Limited enterprise commitment to joint industry development
• Complacency in dealing with market issues – predominant wild caught focus
• Limited sectoral or peak body strategic planning
• Policy dominated by resource managers and technologists rather than those with commercial and market experience.
The industry structure comprises around 300 small owner operator businesses with little or no capacity to coordinate investment in and manage industry development. Recovering lost industry value and delivering future growth is contingent upon coordinated investment in industry development at the whole of industry level.
The ACA is now established and well positioned with the CRC to implement its strategic plan and to integrate R&D work across all stakeholders under its leadership. Two distinct needs are involved in any consideration of better national R&D co-ordination for the abalone sector:
1. The strategic issues of R&D prioritization, funding and the linkages to (and support for) both industry development plans and Government objectives of industry development.
2. The operational issues of facilitating effective communication and coordination at all levels (industry/researchers, among researchers, among industry, FRDC and researchers etc).
Final report
This project aimed to enable the abalone industry to better be able to work collaboratively and improve the quality of products supplied to the market and to maintain market share in major exports.
This project aimed to:
- Coordinate the planning, implementation and reporting of research and development projects conducted by the Seafood CRC to achieve the outcomes specified in the Australia Abalone Council's strategic plan.
- Facilitate the abalone industry participation in CRC projects and the extension and utilisation of the project results, participation in relation to a national product integrity.
- Establish by December 2010, a mechanism by which the Australian Abalone Council can fund its own research and development communication coordination
This project aimed to enable the abalone industry to better be able to work collaboratively and improve the quality of products supplied to the market and to maintain market share in major exports.
This project aimed to:
- Coordinate the planning, implementation and reporting of research and development projects conducted by the Seafood CRC to achieve the outcomes specified in the Australia Abalone Council's strategic plan.
- Facilitate the abalone industry participation in CRC projects and the extension and utilisation of the project results, participation in relation to a national product integrity.
- Establish by December 2010, a mechanism by which the Australian Abalone Council can fund its own research and development communication coordination
