21 results
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-077
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implementation workshop for the effective adoption of the outcomes from the SESSF Declining Indicators project

The key outcome of this project is the implementation plan at Appendix 1 which provides a comprehensive, prioritised list of actions for the SESSF as it transitions to a new harvest strategy framework. The implementation plan also provides a framework for ongoing governance and reporting to ensure...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
TAGS
Survey
Stakeholder
Rac Cmwth
Harvest Strategy
Fishing Technology
Blank
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-026
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

e-fish - An Integrated Data Capture and Sharing Project

The e-fish project provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges currently experienced by fisheries agencies in data integration and sharing. The project, led by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) in consultation with Australia’s State and NT fisheries jurisdictions,...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
TAGS
Traceability
Rac Cmwth
Market Opportunities
Data
App
SPECIES
John Dory
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-098
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Southern Bluefin Tuna: Changing The Trajectory

Life on the Line is the true story of the Southern Bluefin Tuna, its biological traits and its history of exploitation and most recently its recovery. This documentary covers how research, managers and the fishing industry - commercial and recreational have contributed to the recovering status of...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
TAGS
Wild Catch
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Rac Cmwth
SPECIES
Chub Mackerel
Atlantic Mackerel
Shark Mackerel
Slender Tuna
Grey Mackerel

Guidance on Adaptation of Commonwealth Fisheries management to climate change

Project number: 2016-059
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $271,499.79
Principal Investigator: Ryan Murphy
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 31 Dec 2016 - 30 Nov 2018
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Rac Cmwth
Fisheries Management
Ecosystem
Climate Change
Climate Adaptation

Need

The existing research predicts that climate change will have both positive and negative impacts on reproduction, recruitment and distribution of biomass of Australia’s commercially important marine species. Many fishery stakeholders acknowledge that the issue of climate change should be a high priority issue for fisheries management. Current research highlights the potentially significant impacts of climate change on fisheries and fisheries management, but to date strategies for fisheries management to address climate change have been lacking. The current ability of fisheries management to cope with these changes is unknown and therefore must be assessed to test its resilience, ability to adapt and the changes that may be required. AFMA is a prime candidate for leading this assessment since it has substantive responsibility for those areas of the Australian fishing zone that are expected to be hot-spots for climate change effects, such as SE Australia, one of the fastest warming areas in the ocean. In addition, the issues of climate change are canvassed in draft government policies for fisheries and this project could form part of the response to those policy needs.

To-date no jurisdiction in Australia has assessed the resilience of its management system to these anticipated impacts and it is likely to break some new ground in what may need to be done for management systems to effectively adapt to climate change and the options that may be available. Engagement with and participation from key fishery stakeholders is essential for this project to be a success and to assist in any subsequent fisheries management change processes. Overall, this project has the potential to benefit the marine ecosystem and fisheries stakeholders with a vested interest in climate change adaptation, to increase the benefits and reduce the risks. While the production end of the supply chain is often the focus, this project will also consider the supply chain risks, following approaches developed in recent FRDC projects (Hobday et al. 2015; Fleming et al. 2014; Lim-Camacho et al. 2015; Plaganyi et al. 2014; van Putten et al. 2015)

Objectives

1. To assess how well the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework will cope with climate change impacts.
2. To develop a methodology and approach for AFMA and other fisheries to adapt their regulatory environment to climate change impacts on Commonwealth fisheries.
3. To develop strategies and priorities to account for effects of climate change in the management of Commonwealth fisheries

Report

ISBN: 978-1-925994-24-7
Authors: Fulton E.A. van Putten E.I Dutra L.X.C. Melbourne-Thomas J. Ogier E. Thomas L. Rayns N. Murphy R. Butler I. Ghebrezgabhier D. Hobday A.J.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Project products

Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.38 MB
2016-059-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project is comprised of four key components:
(i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents);
(ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and identify feasible adaptation options);  
(iii) Educational Excel Tool (to support the Handbook); and
(iv) Fact Sheet.
 
Climate change is presenting some of the greatest challenges faced by fisheries, especially in hotspot locations like Australia. This project found that the existing Commonwealth fisheries management framework has many vulnerabilities with respect to climate impacts and has many potential points of failure with respect to pursuing policy and legislated objectives and international obligations. While Commonwealth fisheries follow best practice management approaches, which means they are starting from the best possible response foundation (FAO in press) adaptive responses will be required to cope with the many faceted impacts climate change is having and is anticipated to have on Australian marine and coastal ecosystems (Creighton et al. 2016).

To assist the adaptation process, this project developed a process documented in an Adaptation Handbook (and associated excel tool). This process steps interested stakeholders, industry and managers through a structured process to rate  risks and identify adaptation options – both to do with fishery operations and management actions. The process and handbook were specifically developed with AFMA needs and Commonwealth fisheries in mind, but can be applied to fisheries in other jurisdictions. Users could adjust them as needed for the context of their fishery, adding/removing ecosystem factors, industry operations and management actions based on relevance to their fishery.

The project activities – the initial ecological sensitivity analysis undertaken for all Commonwealth fisheries, the assessment of potential risks to AFMA’s capacity to deliver on policy and legislated objectives and the initial illustrative implementations of the risk assessment and adaptation process – have highlighted some general adaptation options that are likely to be of value in many Australian fisheries.

Key findings are:
• All AFMA fisheries contain valuable species sensitive to climate change, with some of the most valuable fisheries amongst those fisheries showing the greatest sensitivity
• All fisheries, but especially short lived and invertebrate fisheries are likely to become far more variable into the future, that is, when, where and how much fish is caught
• Bycatch and TEPS are likely to be highly sensitive to climate change effects, meaning there will be a need to understand how that interacts with any fishing effects
• A shifting ecosystem state over multiple years (or decades) has the potential to go unnoticed and eventually undermine the sustainability of Australian fisheries and the businesses and livelihoods that depend upon them
• Cross jurisdictional management coordination will be required to improve adaptation to climate change, maximising flexibility needed for adaptive capacity and minimising the risks arising from cumulative effects
• Monitoring and forecast capacity will become key to understanding system change that supports evidence-based decision making, fishery sustainability and business profitability
• Australia needs to find a way of making monitoring and forecasting possible and supported long term to maintain our position and reputation as having well managed fisheries (Australia’s monitoring capacity is currently insufficient given the degree to which climate change will likely reshape Australian ecosystems).


Report • 2021-08-31 • 547.42 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix3-Climate-Sensitivity-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 3 summarises the exposure of AFMA managed fisheries to ecologically mediated climate change effects. The assessment was undertaken in 2020 based on best available information at the time, including:
• Expected trajectories of climate change (temperature, pH, oxygen, salinity, rainfall) as projected by (a) the modified Ocean Forecasting Australia Model version 3 (OFAM-v3) from the CSIRO Ocean Downscaling Strategic Project (and as reported in Fulton et al. 2018), which specifically focuses on fine scale ocean environment around Australia; and (b) the Australian region of the ensemble of climate model outputs available from the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which will inform the upcoming 2021 IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6)
• Extreme events projections made by Oliver et al. (2018)
• Biomass trajectories from species distribution models and various ecosystem models (as reported in Fulton et al. 2018); and
• Climate sensitivity assessments following the method of Pecl et al. (2014) applied to all species currently listed in the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) level 2 productivity-susceptibility analysis for each fishery. Where species had been previously assessed (i.e. those species reported in the appendices of Fulton et al. 2018) the extant assessments were used. Where the sensitivity of a species had not previously been assessed an automated assessment was carried out using the criteria listed in Table 1-1 of Fulton et al. (2018) and the attribute values used in the ERAs.
 
Report • 307.75 KB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix4-Risk-of-Failure-to-Deliver-Objectives-Rating.pdf

Summary

Appendix 4 summarises the ways in which climate change exposes the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) to the risk of failing to meet objectives laid out in federal policy, legislation (e.g. Fisheries Act or Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and international obligations (due to international treaties and agreements). This assessment shows a number of points of potential failure. Fundamentally the abundance, distribution or behaviour of key Australia species and habitats is very likely to change in the short to medium term. This poses a number of risks to AFMA’s capacity to meet its current objectives.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.16 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part1- Regional-Projections-Northern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.1 provides regional projections for Northern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate change some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what northern Australia, from the Pilbara to Cape York and the Torres Strait, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 3.82 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part2-Regional-Projections-East-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.2 provides regional projections for Eastern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species (especially pelagics) may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 1.98 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part3-Regional-Projections-Southern-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.3 provides regional projections for Southern Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what southern Australia may look like by 2040, from Busselton to Tasmania and up the east coast to the Queensland border.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2021-08-31 • 2.36 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part4-Regional-Projections-Western-Australia.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.4 provides regional projections for Western Australia.
Oceans and climate are tightly tied together. This means that as the world’s climate changes some of the biggest signatures of that will be in our oceans, affecting the ecosystems and fisheries there. Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what western Australia, from the Pilbara to Albany, may look like by 2040.
CSIRO has used four different kinds of models to look how species and ecosystems may respond into the future. Just looking at environmental conditions the species currently prefer suggests many species will decline in abundance. However, food web interactions (where prey increase or predators decrease) mean that some species may actually increase in abundance instead.
Report • 2.04 MB
2016-059-DLD-Appendix5-Part5-Regional-Projections-Kerguelen-Plateau.pdf

Summary

Appendix 5.5 provides regional projections for the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island and MacDonald Islands).
Understanding what that means for specific locations can be difficult, but we have some idea about what Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean may look like by 2040.
Handbook • 2020-11-30 • 4.21 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Updated_June11_2021_WEB.pdf

Summary

This Handbook was written as a core deliverable of the AFMA/CSIRO project Adaptation of Commonwealth fisheries management to climate change (FRDC project 2016-059).
 
The basic aim of that project is to understand the risks climate change presents to Commonwealth fisheries so that the following questions can be answered:
1. What changes does AFMA need to make to its regulatory system so that it can still effectively deliver its management objectives?
2. What are the consequences of those changes for the fishing industry and other fishery stakeholders?

However, this handbook has been designed to be used by a range of fishery stakeholders including industry, management, traditional and recreational sectors. While its development focussed on application to Australia’s Commonwealth fisheries it can equally be applied to fisheries managed by other jurisdictions.

The risk assessment has been designed in a series of steps, each focussing on a different aspect of a fishery’s operation. As a result, the assessment steps can be used in their entirety or specific steps can be undertaken as needed. For example, the fisheries risk management assessment could be used more generally as checklist on how climate proofed any new alternative management strategy under consideration would be. Or industry groups might want to take the ecological risk assessment and consider financial factors outside of management decision making.
Fact Sheet • 2021-09-14 • 1.20 MB
2016-059-Climate_Adaptation_Handbook_Factsheet_2021_WEB_14Sep2021.pdf

Summary

This fact sheet contains essential information on the Adaptation Handbook in a concise and simple language.
Guide • 2020-12-31 • 500.69 KB
2016-059-Handbook_Guide_Tool.xlsx

Summary

This excel tool has been compiled to assist users of the Adaptation Handbook work through the multi-step assessment process. 
Each step provides a structured approach for deriving a risk score. Ecological, fishery and management risk scores are then combined into an overall risk assessment score to help guide decision making.
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-203
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SESSF Monitoring and Assessment – Strategic Review

The Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) is a multi-species, multi-gear, multijurisdictional Commonwealth fishery. It is a fishery of substantial economic and social importance to Australia, as a key provider of high quality fish products to Australian markets. More than 600...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
TAGS
Rac Cmwth
Policy
Market Opportunities
Harvest Strategy
Electronic Monitoring
SPECIES
Gemfish
Banded Morwong
Silver Trevally
Mirror Dory
Bight Redfish

Tactical Research Fund: improved line weighting method for tuna longline fishing using live-baiting to mitigate sea bird bycatch and improve worker safety

Project number: 2012-407
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $14,999.00
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 31 Aug 2012 - 31 Aug 2013
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Health And Safety
Fishing Gear
Bycatch

Need

The Commonwealth has listed the incidental capture of seabirds in oceanic longlining as a key threatening process.

Australia has a Threat Abatement Plan for the incidental catch (of bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations (TAP). The TAP sets out actions that must be followed to mitigate seabird bycatch, including line weighting, catch rate triggers and management responses.

AFMA requires all Commonwealth longline fisheries to implement line weighting and other seabird bycatch mitigation measures. Despite these, in previous years there has been protracted daylight setting bans in key sub-areas of the ETBF, where live bait is used (and large economic impact), because of seabird bycatch incidents. This demonstrates that the current measures are not fully effective. Live bait increases seabird bycatch risk but are used to maintain target species catch rates.

AFMA is aware of four ‘flyback’ incidents where a crew member was hit by a line weight and hospitalised. An AFMA observer was also recently injured by a ‘flyback’ and is subject to a Comcare claim.

New line weighting regimes trialled in Australia using dead bait in 2010 showed that a ‘sliding’ 40g weight at or near the hook is potentially safer for crew, cheaper, improves sink rates and reduces risks of seabird bycatch, while maintaining fish catch rates. However, a significant proportion of fishers use live baits for which the 40g line weighting regime is insufficient.

Moving the weight to be at or near the hook dramatically increases the sink rate. However, the effects on the life status of live bait (and fish catch rates) have not yet been tested and fishers continue to prefer not to move weights nearer to the hook. This trial will investigate the impact of 60g weights within 1 meter of the hook on bait life status and catch rates.

Objectives

1. Evaluate the effects of 60g sliding weights placed within 1 m of the hook on the life status of live baits.

Final report

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Attending the international marine mammal - gillnet bycatch mitigation workshop

Project number: 2011-407
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $3,166.26
Principal Investigator: Neil Hughes
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 13 Oct 2011 - 29 Jan 2012
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Social Science
Social Science
Resource Access And Allocation

Need

The Gillnet, Hook and Trap Fishery is facing a number of issues to do with marine marine interactions, particularly with Australian Sea Lion and dolphins. There are a range of possible management responses, but some uncertainty about the effectiveness of these approaches. An understanding of emerging solution and international best practice will position AFMA to best negotiate chnages in the fishery to deliver outcomes consistent with the Fisheries Management Act 1999. While attendance at the Workshop will support management of the fishery, attendance is not a core business element of the current position. Attendance at the Workshop will allow a quick and practical understaning of management and other responses for the fishery, well in advance of the emergence of scientific or management literature on the issue.

Objectives

1. To better understand marine mamal interactions in gillnet fisheries.
2. To understand the range of practical management or other measures to reduce interactions.
3. To forge links with researchers and managers who can provide ongoing technical assistance for managing the fishery.

Final report

Author: Neil Hughes
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Evaluating the use of onboard cameras in the Shark Gillnet Fishery in South Australia

Project number: 2010-049
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $288,462.00
Principal Investigator: Josh Davis
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 23 Sep 2010 - 31 Oct 2011
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Wild Catch
Fishing Gear
Fisheries Management
Electronic Monitoring
Behaviour

Need

Australian Sea Lions (ASL) have been known to interact with the gillnet sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) for some time but the nature and extent of these interactions have been poorly understood. On 30 June 2010 AFMA implemented the Australian Sea Lion Management Strategy. A component of this strategy requires that observer coverage in the fishery be increased from approx 2.6% to at least 11% in the South Australian gillnet sector of the SESSF. This increased level of monitoring is designed to detect interactions with Australian sea lions and provide an indication of accuracy of predicted level of interactions suggested in the report by Goldsworthy et al (2010). Given the rare nature of the interactions, significant increases in human observation at or above this level are unlikely to be economically sustainable in the longer term and digital monitoring including cameras have been proposed as a viable alternative. Onboard camera monitoring has the potential to improve fishery management outcomes cost effectively.
AFMA is currently undertaking e-monitoring trial featuring onboard cameras in the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery and the Northern Prawn Fishery to assess the capacity of onboard cameras to collect data cost effectively. Early indications from these trials are positive. This project differs from the ETBF as it focuses on an investigation of the equipment to collect a significant proportion of the data currently collected as part of the Independent Scientific Monitoring Program (ISMP) including protected species. In addition the capacity of onboard cameras to capture interactions between fishing operations and Australian sea lions in the Shark gillnet fishery is unknown. The proposed project will be designed to enable a detailed cost benefit analysis of onboard camera monitoring in gillnet and fish trawl fisheries to test this hypothesis.

Objectives

1. Assess the capacity of electronic monitoring to provide in-season data on interactions with Australian sea lions in shark gillnet fisheries.
2. Improve the level of certainty on the impact of fishing operations Australian sea lions that currently surrounds the Goldsworthy findings.
3. Investigate the use of electronic monitoring for the further collection of data currently collected by observers with a focus on opportunities to improve data integrity and data quality in the ISMP data set.
4. Assess the cost and benefits of utilising electronic monitoring in the shark gillnet fisheries

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-877044-43-4
Author: Josh Davis
Final Report • 2012-06-19 • 2.64 MB
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Tactical Research Fund: Assessing catch handling and discards using onboard electronic monitoring in the Northern Prawn Fishery

Project number: 2009-076
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $35,000.00
Principal Investigator: Matt Piasente
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 7 Apr 2010 - 28 Feb 2011
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Sustainability
Survey
Fisheries Management
Economic

Need

The NPF MAC considered the NPF Individual Transferable Quota Cost Benefit Analysis report in July 2009. The report details higher onboard observer coverage requirements to provide adequate base level information to estimate discard rates during the transitional phase (2-3 years) of quota management. The MAC recommended to implement a 15% level of observer coverage for the first two years and requested AFMA to investigate the potential use of cameras to offset the increase in observer coverage and subsequent costs.

To accommodate this trial, AFMA is in a position to capitalise on the recourses available from the current onboard e-Monitoring pilot project (FRDC 09/048). Project staff and equipment can assist the development and undertaking of the proposed pilot in the NPF. For example, an AFMA owned e-Monitoring system recently upgraded to the latest operating software is available for use in this proposed trial. Data analysis software has been leased from Archipelago Marine Research for use by AFMA during the current e-Monitoring project. This software can also be utilised for data analysis requirements during the NPF trial.

As part of the ETBF e-Monitoring project, comprehensive evaluations and assessments are being undertaken to assess the costs and benefits of integrating an ongoing e-Monitoring program within AFMA. These assessments will provide the necessary data inputs and comparisons to aid and support cost-benefit analyses and service delivery evaluations for integrating an ongoing e-Monitoring program in the NPF.

Drivers for e-Monitoring include the desire to explore alternatives to current observer monitoring and synergies with the co-management initiative. The current co-management trial between AFMA and the NPF Industry Company will provide necessary support during the course of this trial. Additionally the adoption of electronic logbooks in the NPF will support the timely collection of logbook data to audit against e-Monitoring data during the trial.

Objectives

1. To deploy an electronic monitoring system on one commercial fishing vessel in the NPF and maintain its continuous operation during the 2010 banana and tiger prawn seasons.
2. To evaluate the efficacy of electronic monitoring for assessing discards and a number of fishery monitoring issues.
3. To develop and evaluate an onboard discard procedure to estimate discard weight.
4. To develop an audit-based approach to electronic monitoring data analysis for evaluating fisher logbook data quality.
5. To undertake a cost benefit analysis of monitoring options and programs required to meet the fisheries data needs.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-646-57119-5
Author: Matthew Piasente
Final Report • 2012-06-01 • 6.51 MB
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Electronic on board monitoring pilot project for the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery

Project number: 2009-048
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $579,431.00
Principal Investigator: Matt Piasente
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2009 - 30 Sep 2010
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Stakeholder
Fishing Gear
Electronic Monitoring
Electronic Log Book
Data

Need

ETBF Pilot Progect
In 2007, an AFMA commissioned cost benefit study and business case showed reduced costs if electronic monitoring technologies were adopted in several Commonwealth fisheries. However, there is considerable uncertainty regarding the extent to which onboard observer coverage can be replaced in the ETBF and the costs involved in intergrating electronic monitoring into AFMA management practices. This pilot project will collect suffiecient information to enable an in-depth cost benefit analysis of future monitoring options. It will resolve the uncertainty surrounding the utility of electronic monitoring technologies in the ETBF and the costs associated with integrating an electronic monitoring program within AFMA.

In addition to the time and cost savings from reduced onboard observer requirements, there are also potential efficiencies for both industry and AFMA from the use of electronic monitoring reporting. Some of these efficiencies include;
1. better understanding of fishing effort,
2. better understanding and management of fishing operations, and
3. increased data accuracy (resulting in more responsive fisheries management).

Pilbara Trawl Fishery Pilot Project
Monitoring of remote small vessel fisheries in Australia is often difficult and always costly. Travel costs, observer wages, and operational inefficiencies and restrictions of small vessels in accommodating on-board observers are all factors which act to restrict monitoring coverage while still incurring a relatively high cost to industry. With the a growing need for accurate catch and effort data and the high costs and operational restrictions of using human observers there is a subsequent need to find a cost-effective alternative that will not only improve coverage levels but also reduce costs.

Objectives

1. To deploy electronic monitoring systems on ten commercial fishing vessels in the ETBF and maintain their continuous operation for a period of up to one year.
2. To evaluate the efficacy of electronic monitoring for a number of fishery monitoring issues.
3. To develop an audit-based approach to electronic monitoring data analysis for evaluating fisher logbook data quality.
4. To undertake a cost and benefit analysis of monitoring options and programs required to meet the fisheries data needs.
5. To develop and evaluate the feasibility of establishing a third party service delivery structure with Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. for an ongoing electronic monitoring program in the ETBF.
6. To assess the feasibility of electronic monitoring systems to provide better fishery monitoring outcomes, their future capacity and applications in the Pilbara Trawl Fishery and other fisheries.

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-877044-42-7
Author: Matthew Piasente
Final Report • 2012-06-01 • 12.12 MB
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