PROJECT NUMBER
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2008-078
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
TAGS
21 results
PROJECT NUMBER
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2008-052
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
SPECIES
Co-management in Commonwealth fisheries
Project number:
2008-045
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$597,100.00
Principal Investigator:
Steve Bolton
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
30 Sep 2008
-
29 Jan 2012
Contact:
FRDC
There is growing need across fisheries management agencies and the fishing industry for improved cost-effectiveness and greater efficiency. This need stems from unprecedented economic pressures facing the fishing industry at a time when the Government is implementing a harvest strategy policy and ecosystem based fisheries management. These policy directions increase the emphasis on data collection and verification, fishery and stock assessments, compliance and investment in risk management. The cost recovery policy of the Government places added responsibility on AFMA to manage fisheries efficiently and cost-effectively. This project provides an opportunity to examine new business practices and management arrangements that will benefit both AFMA and industry, leading to a more collaborative and/or delegated approach to the management of Commonwealth fisheries. Greater stewardship of fisheries resources is likely to result where management responsibilities are effectively transferred to industry. Furthermore, there is a strong alignment between a cooperating industry, the strengthening of fishing rights, resources stewardship and satisfying key fisheries management objectives. In order to pursue co-management in Commonwealth fisheries, the theoretical bases already established need to be taken further through trialing, testing and evaluation in existing fisheries to determine whether greater efficiency, cost-effectiveness and other benefits can be achieved, compared to current management arrangements (from National Working Group on Co-management Initiative, draft interim report 2007).
1. Develop, trial and assess specific fisheries management and/or administrative functions that can be taken up by the fishing industry under various co-management institutional structures.
2. Build on existing and/or implement alternative management arrangements that will simplify
3. Improve industry/AFMA relationships and stewardship of fisheries resources by adopting a more collaborative and/or delegated approach to management.
Final report
Small pelagic fishery resource assessment group workshop
Project number:
2007-056
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$13,636.36
Principal Investigator:
James Findlay
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
5 May 2007
-
7 May 2007
Contact:
FRDC
Development of the ComFRAB 2004-2009 Research Plan
Project number:
2003-319
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$19,970.00
Principal Investigator:
Bruce Wallner
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
30 Oct 2003
-
30 Jul 2005
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
A new ComFRAB Strategic Research Plan is required to guide research investment in Commonwealth fisheries.
The revised ComFRAB 5-year plan will include the AFMA strategic research plan and seek to provide a coordinated approach to research in Commonwealth fisheries. The two functions will be clearly distinguished in the document, but are complimentary and indicate areas of innovative research and industry development opportunities that will support the future management and development of Commonwealth fisheries.
The ComFRAB Strategic Research Plan will provide research providers and users a clear statement of what is expected from research and the principles that the ARC/ComFRAB will apply in prioritising and supporting research projects. These principles will guide the process of planning and undertaking research.
The development of a set of strategic research areas will enable the ARC/ComFRAB to take a more pro-active position when calling for and evaluating research projects to meet the needs of Commonwealth fisheries.
1. Develop a plan to provide guidance to the ARC/ComFRAB in planning and undertaking research related duties.
2. Clearly articulate a processes for identifying research priorities and commissioning research to ensure transparency in procedures, priorities and budgets
3. Outline key criteria for assessing research projects
Final report
Author:
Bruce Wallner
Final Report
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2005-12-20
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3.87 MB
2003-319-DLD.pdf
The project developed AFMA’s strategic research plan entitled Researching for Fisheries, Industry and Community: AFMA’s Strategic Research Plan 2005-2010.
The plan provides guidance to the AFMA Research Committee / Commonwealth Fisheries Research Advisory Body in planning and undertaking research related duties. The plan sets out the principles for research investment in Commonwealth fisheries. The current drivers of fisheries research are outlined. AFMA’s four research programs are explained together with the avenues of investment in Commonwealth fisheries. Key participants in AFMA’s research activities are specified. The plan clearly articulated a process for identifying research priorities and commissioning research to ensure transparency in procedures, priorities and budgets.
The role of the plan and fishery research plans also is articulated.
Keywords: AFMA Strategic Research Plan, strategic, AFMA
Evaluation of alternative strategies for management of Commonwealth fisheries in southeastern Australia
Project number:
2003-061
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$1,429,399.00
Principal Investigator:
Margot Sachse
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
30 Aug 2003
-
30 Nov 2008
Contact:
FRDC
As part of a move towards EBFM, there is a clear need to identify the variety of management measures in place across fisheries within the region, and to evaluate a range of comprehensive and “integrated” management strategies that would best meet the needs of all fisheries across the full range of management objectives. The AFMA Board has recently signalled that it wants the MACs in the region to consider these issues, and particularly the implementation of a wider mix of strategies for managing fisheries, including time and area closures and gear modifications, in addition to existing output controls such as TACs. This project will assemble the information and provide the analytical tools to undertake such evaluations. A carefully evaluated set of management strategies would support the existing management process (including the MACs, AFMA management, and the National Oceans Office) in developing an operational management plan for south eastern fisheries that is tightly integrated with other uses of the marine environment in the region, including implementation of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas and of the South East Regional Marine Plan. If such a plan can be developed, it would put these fisheries and Australia at the forefront of practical implementation of EBFM. The need is to have all the issues, objectives and options on the table at the same time, to consider simultaneously the impacts of a set of management arrangements in addressing each issue and objective, and to support a process that will arrive at a comprehensive and balanced outcome considering all fishery sectors and all other legitimate stakeholders with interests in the region.
1. Identify the key economic and environmental issues facing the Shark, SET, SENT and GAB fisheries.
2. Identify the regional and fishery specific management objectives and strategies, encompassing the full range of management measures that are able to be adopted in the SESSF.
3. Evaluate integrated management strategies against regional and fishery specific management objectives:· Qualitative evaluation by February 2007· Preliminary quantitative evaluation by February 2007· Quantitative evaluation by September 2007
4. Make available evaluated strategies to AFMA, relevant MACs and other stakeholders.
Final report
ISBN:
978-1-877044-37-3
Author:
Margot Sachse
Final Report
•
2010-04-28
•
9.76 MB
2003-061-DLD.pdf
In early 2004, when this project commenced, the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) was in a critical situation with respect to its ecological and economic performance, and in the external management environment that it faced. It was clear that, as the prime management tool, the quota management system in place in the SESSF since 1992 had been unsuccessful in addressing most of these issues. Recognition of this failing had led to general agreement among managers, industry, scientists and NGOs that a fundamental rethink of management was required. The need was to have all the issues, objectives and options on the table, to consider simultaneously the impacts of a set of integrated management arrangements in addressing each issue and objective. A process was needed that would assist the fishery to arrive at a balanced outcome considering all fishery sectors and other legitimate stakeholders with interests in the region. A management strategy evaluation (MSE) approach was adopted.
Review of the assessment of school shark in the Southern Shark Fishery
Project number:
1996-129
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$32,183.00
Principal Investigator:
Trysh Stone
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
29 Jun 1996
-
15 Jan 1998
Contact:
FRDC
1. To ensure that best available scientific advice is available for management decisions and that industry has confidence in the outcome of the stock assessment.
2. To review estimates of abundance and basic biological parameters used in assessing school shark stock status.
3. To review statistical and modelling methods used in the school shark stock assessment.
4. To improve industry understanding of the stock assessment process and acceptance of the results.
Final report
Review of orange roughy assessment
Project number:
1994-143
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$52,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Kim Parkinson
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
25 Sep 1994
-
30 Jun 1995
Contact:
FRDC
1. Review estimates of abundance and basic biological parameters (motality rates, growth, stock structure, recruitment viability, proportion of spawners breeding each year) used in assessing orange roughy status in the South East Fishery
2. Review statistical methods used in the 1994 stock assessment
3. Reviewing methods of estimating the risk associated with the 1994 assessment
4. Reviewing means of improving future stock assessment in the light of objectives 1-3
Final report
Assessment of the impact of environmental factors and new technology on the NPF
Project number:
1994-128
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$64,247.00
Principal Investigator:
Carolyn M. Robins
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
14 Jan 1995
-
18 Apr 1997
Contact:
FRDC
1. To identify and quantify possible environmental factors (from meteorological records and satellite derived data) that might explain the year to year variation in catches of the two species of tiger prawn in the NPF
2. To estimate the impact that GPS has had on the effectiveness of fishing effort in the NPF
NPF Pre-Season Workshop
Project number:
1993-251
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$6,979.85
Principal Investigator:
Annie Jarrett
Organisation:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date:
6 Feb 1994
-
30 Dec 1994
Contact:
FRDC
1. To obtain information from the NPF industry on a range of issues and to determine research priorities and develop research strategies
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