PROJECT NUMBER
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2024-059
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
SPECIES
10 results
PROJECT NUMBER
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2022-102
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
TAGS
SPECIES
Determining if the CCSBT Management Procedure sufficiently demonstrates sustainability credentials of Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna
Project number:
2021-037
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$34,377.00
Principal Investigator:
Daniel Casement
Organisation:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
Project start/end date:
5 Aug 2021
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13 Oct 2021
Contact:
FRDC
SPECIES
After discussions with MSC, ASBTIA applied for MSC and completed the pre-assessment (ACDR) for SBT caught in the Great Australian Bight (GAB) for farming. An approved CAB, Marine Resources and Assessment Group (MRAG) completed the ACDR (attached) and identified three possible challenges to certification. First was that the MSC Standard requires the product to be “landed.” This was resolved because SBT caught for farming is officially deemed “landed” by AFMA and CCSBT. Second was the SBT listing under the EPBC Act 1999 – the same problem faced by Orange Roughy East (ORE). ASBTIA has applied to the Australian Minister for Environment for SBT to be delisted in 2021.
Another major problem is that the MSC Standard requires the SBT stock to be “at least an 80% probability that the true status of the stock is higher than the point at which there is an appreciable risk of recruitment being impaired” (MSC Standard SA2.2.1.1 and SA2.2.1.2). The Standard notes that: “Where proxy indicators and reference points are used to score Principle 1 (Pl 1.1.1), the team shall justify their use as reasonable proxies of stock biomass for the PRI and/or MSY.” The Standard also notes that “The recent trends in fishing mortality rate may be used as a means of scoring stock status.” (SA2.2.4). Currently the CCSBT MP is tuned to a 70% probability of rebuilding the stock to the interim rebuilding target reference point of 20% of the original spawning stock biomass by 2035, which does not meet the MSC Standards.
As soon as this problem was identified by MRAG in the ACDR – ASBTIA had detailed discussions with AWE and CSIRO on how this barrier could be overcome. The view that SBT could not pass the MSC Principle 1 without this being resolved was then supported by the ISSF analysis in February 2021 (see www.iss-foundation.org) CSIRO noted that the problem could be addressed by a project – but that it required use of data and analysis which evolved from the meetings of the CCSBT Extended Scientific Committee (ESC) but were not published or used in the ESC annual Reports (see www.ccsbt.org)
1. For CSIRO (on behalf of Australia) to produce a report on how the current CCSBT Management Procedure (MP) can be tuned to achieve the default PRI within the next 3-5 years.
Final report
ISBN:
978-0-9807000-3-9
Author:
Brian Jeffriess and Claire Webber
Final Report
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2022-02-01
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523.29 KB
2021-037-DLD.pdf
This research project is an important step for the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna fishery for catching fish for farms. The project directly addressed the point which is seen as the remaining barrier to the fishery achieving Marine Stewardship Council certification.
The project establishes that Southern Bluefin Tuna exceeds considerably the Marine Stewardship Council sustainability criteria required to meet Marine Stewardship Council Principle 1: Sustainable target fish stocks. The methodology used by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation was confirmed by the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna Extended Scientific Committee in August 2021 and might be seen as model to be used by other fisheries facing the same problem with certification bodies.
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-208
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2013-409
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
SPECIES
People development program: 2012 FRDC governance scholarship for women - Claire Webber
Project number:
2008-318.15
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$6,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Claire Webber
Organisation:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
Project start/end date:
30 Jun 2012
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29 Jun 2013
Contact:
FRDC
Industry organisations need to build their capacity to meet future challenges and opportunities. Building the skills and confidence for industry to influence is one aspect of capacity that the people development program aims to address through this project, providing opportunity to influence is another.
There is a need for coordinated delivery of opportunities to develop governance capability in the fishing
industry and and to promote opportunitites to foster diversity through succession planning within industry committees and boards.
PROJECT NUMBER
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2008-227
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2004-205
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2000-221
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Aquafin CRC - SBT Aquaculture Subprogram: quality and nutritional evaluation of baitfish used for tuna farming
The project provided nutritional profiles for all types of baitfish used for feed in the Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) (Thunnus maccoyii) Aquaculture Industry, as well as for the only available commercially produced compound feed and SBT. Included are values for amino acid and fatty acid...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
TAGS
SPECIES
SBT grow-out
Project number:
1991-056
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$213,266.00
Principal Investigator:
Daniel Casement
Organisation:
Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association
Project start/end date:
11 Sep 1991
-
7 Nov 2002
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
1. To assess the feasibility of capturing live SBT in a state from which they can survive under agistment conditions
2. To grow out SBT in pontoons in the Port Lincoln area to assess: growth rates, total and in specivic period, feed conversion ratios, preferred feeds
3. To assess the influence of the SBT grow out on the environment with water quality testing by the SA Government
4. To assess the quality and market acceptance of farmed SBT
5. To provide an example for other pontoon culturing or farming in Australia
6. To examine the possibility of breeding SBT
7. To provide a basis for sustainable biological research (eg Otoliths)
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