PROJECT NUMBER
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2023-072
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
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Engagement for Success: evaluation of engagement events to inform industry management strategies
Project number:
2019-074
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$135,450.00
Principal Investigator:
Lowri Pryce
Organisation:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
Project start/end date:
29 Feb 2020
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27 Feb 2021
Contact:
FRDC
Commercial fisheries and aquaculture activities with insufficient levels of social support can negatively affect industry member well-being and contribute to restricted resource access. More & appropriate engagement is needed to improve stakeholder and community trust & support, both with those affected by industry activity, and with those who affect industry activity (i.e. decision-makers and influencers).
This project addresses the need to ensure that the range of engagement activities and strategies undertaken by organisations and operators within fisheries and aquaculture are effective at:
- building relationships and trustworthiness;
- understanding concerns and needs arising from industry activity; and
- influencing preferences and decisions.
Limited evaluation has been undertaken regarding the effectiveness of engagement strategies and activities in meeting predefined goals. Similarly, limited opportunities exist to transfer knowledge between industry organisations of successful and future engagement practice; or to support improved return on investment of engagement strategies.
The NSW Fishing Industry has a need to improve relationships and trustworthiness with key stakeholders, and to achieve specific outcomes for PFA members, which include; improve social license by industry taking the lead on its own imagery, and an increase in the consumption and variety of NSW seafood.
In addition, there is limited feedback on whether communication strategies about to embark on will be effective at achieving the PFA’s desired outcomes, and there is information to help develop long term engagement strategies and direct limited resources to the most effective activities.
Therefore, there is a need to select a range of community engagement strategies and activities, and evaluate these against predefined goals. Engagement successes need to be extended to other industry organisations,
and if appropriate, decision support materials to be developed to extend knowledge adoption of the findings and materials.
1. Evaluate these engagement activities and strategies against their predefined goals, applying an engagement evaluation framework developed by Clear Horizon as part of "FRDC project 2018-201" using standardised and defensible monitoring and evaluation methods.
2. Pilot and refine the evaluation framework using the above.
3. Develop materials to support other industry organisations based on the specific case studies, in selecting, designing, implementing and evaluating types of engagement activities and strategies which have been demonstrated to be highly effective at achieving specific engagement goals. (REVIEW with Stop/Go point)
4. Contribute to extension and knowledge mobilisation of these findings and materials. (REVIEW with Stop/Go point)
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PROJECT NUMBER
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2013-024
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2012-302
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2010-305
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2009-328
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2008-314.20
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
Tactical Research Fund: Effectiveness of larger mesh size in reducing the capture of juvenile target species in select NSW ocean beach seine operations
Project number:
2008-036
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$32,805.00
Principal Investigator:
Dave Cranston
Organisation:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
Project start/end date:
30 Mar 2008
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1 Dec 2008
Contact:
FRDC
This application is an industry initiative aimed at reducing the incidental bycatch of juvenile target species encountered in ocean deployed beach seines. This project will not only empower industry members with instilled confidence in their gear, but also assist in addressing the potential conflict between the two user groups.
There is genuine concern regarding the capture of significant proportions of juveniles whilst targeting migratory schools of bream, tarwhine and luderick predominantly; when using currently legislated beach seine net specifications.
A beach seine net can be divided into three 3 main sections: anterior wings, posterior wings and the bunt/codend. Current legislation prescribes a maximum mesh size of 86, 65 and 65mm respectively for these sections.
Recently, (Wooden, unpublished) investigated the use of alternate net configurations and the use of morphological data in ocean and estuary deployed beach seines. In brief the study indicated:
(i) Current configurations of NSW beach seines are inappropriate for maximizing size selectivity for nearly
all retained species,
(ii) Morphological data can be used to predict and trial appropriate mesh sizes to reduce
bycatch and
(iii) No significant physical or physiological damages resulted from juvenile bream escaping from a
modified beach seine with a mesh size of 102mm (in simulated laboratory experiments).
Anecdotal information from numerous sources on landings of juveniles in conventional beach seine gears, identifies the need for further research on certain gear components of the ocean beach seine fishery. Proposed investigations (beach seine net constructed entirely of 102mm mesh) aim to further improve size selectivity and eliminate the unwanted capture of juvenile target species.
The research proposed in this application clearly relates to the vision of the fishery and directly addresses many objectives listed under Goal 1 & Goal 2 of the FMS and addresses FRDC’s high priorities responding to strategic challenge 1.
1. 1. To examine and quantify the effectiveness of larger than prescribed mesh size in reducing the capture of juveniles in ocean beach seine operations targeting ground-fish species.
2. 2. Provision of information that support management decisions for the long term benefit of the resource and users.
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PROJECT NUMBER
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2004-410
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2003-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Adoption of an environmental management systems by NSW commercial estuary fishers and oyster farmers
This project has provided estuary fishers and oyster farmers across NSW with an opportunity to develop an Environmental Management System (EMS), based on ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems for their businesses.
The main driver for each group to develop an EMS was primarily improving...
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
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