PROJECT NUMBER
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2002-235
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
SPECIES
122,526 results
Seafood Services Australia Ltd: adding value throughout the seafood supply chain - second year review
Project number:
2002-233.80
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$45,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Patrick Hone
Organisation:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date:
28 Jun 2005
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30 Jun 2005
Contact:
FRDC
The 1993 Fishing Industry National Study (FINS) clearly identified that more cohesive and efficient delivery of the types services now provided under SSA’s umbrella was required to address important areas of market failure in the seafood industry and to help the industry identify and captilise on significant opportunities for industry development through post harvest value adding.
SSA’s products, services, and its comprehensive standards development process, are recognised nationally, by industry and governments, as having contributed significantly to the development of the Australian seafood industry, especially through keeping the industry abreast of legislative and technological change. SSA’s work is also being recognised internationally and used as a model for other primary industry sectors. See Appendix C – SSA Annual Operating Plan, December 2001 to June 2002. Recent evaluations have identified opportunities to further improve SSA’s delivery of products and services to all sectors of the industry.
Incorporation of SSA Ltd establishes a rigorous, transparent and accountable management regime with significant industry ownership that will further focus the SSA’s activities through corporate leadership, strategic vision and closer links with the industry on a national basis. Formal corporate directorship processes will also ensure SSA’s operates strategically within the broad industry development program outlined in the Investing for tomorrow’s fish: the FRDC’s research and development plan, 2000 to 2005.
The SSA Network brings together industry and government members from each State and Territory, and the Commonwealth to seek solutions to a wide range of seafood supply chain issues, including issues of market failure, from seafood safety through to environmental management systems. Experience over the past three years has demonstrated the pivotal role the Network plays in achieving SSA's outcomes so successfully. This project will strengthen the Network so that it can continue to have input into priorities and work programs, thereby ensuring SSA Ltd activities are responsive, cohesive, and appropriately targeted.
SSA Ltd provides a flexible and responsive mechanism that will for the first time, enable the seafood industry to attract private and public funding for seafood industry development from non-traditional funding sources. It will do this by encouraging and supporting people, businesses and organisations in the seafood industry who want to:
1. continually improve and add value to their businesses,
2. continually improve their environmental performance,
3. meet consumer expectations (especially in having high levels of confidence in Australian seafood products), and
4. receive broad community support for their activities.
SSA Ltd will is uniquely poised to foster unprecedented and sustainable seafood industry development, generating significant social and economic benefits to Australia.
Seafood Services Australia Ltd: adding value throughout the seafood supply chain
Project number:
2002-233
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$3,860,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Ted Loveday
Organisation:
Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Project start/end date:
28 Jun 2002
-
30 Jun 2009
Contact:
FRDC
The 1993 Fishing Industry National Study (FINS) clearly identified that more cohesive and efficient delivery of the types services now provided under SSA’s umbrella was required to address important areas of market failure in the seafood industry and to help the industry identify and captilise on significant opportunities for industry development through post harvest value adding.
SSA’s products, services, and its comprehensive standards development process, are recognised nationally, by industry and governments, as having contributed significantly to the development of the Australian seafood industry, especially through keeping the industry abreast of legislative and technological change. SSA’s work is also being recognised internationally and used as a model for other primary industry sectors. See Appendix C – SSA Annual Operating Plan, December 2001 to June 2002. Recent evaluations have identified opportunities to further improve SSA’s delivery of products and services to all sectors of the industry.
Incorporation of SSA Ltd establishes a rigorous, transparent and accountable management regime with significant industry ownership that will further focus the SSA’s activities through corporate leadership, strategic vision and closer links with the industry on a national basis. Formal corporate directorship processes will also ensure SSA’s operates strategically within the broad industry development program outlined in the Investing for tomorrow’s fish: the FRDC’s research and development plan, 2000 to 2005.
The SSA Network brings together industry and government members from each State and Territory, and the Commonwealth to seek solutions to a wide range of seafood supply chain issues, including issues of market failure, from seafood safety through to environmental management systems. Experience over the past three years has demonstrated the pivotal role the Network plays in achieving SSA's outcomes so successfully. This project will strengthen the Network so that it can continue to have input into priorities and work programs, thereby ensuring SSA Ltd activities are responsive, cohesive, and appropriately targeted.
SSA Ltd provides a flexible and responsive mechanism that will for the first time, enable the seafood industry to attract private and public funding for seafood industry development from non-traditional funding sources. It will do this by encouraging and supporting people, businesses and organisations in the seafood industry who want to:
1. continually improve and add value to their businesses,
2. continually improve their environmental performance,
3. meet consumer expectations (especially in having high levels of confidence in Australian seafood products), and
4. receive broad community support for their activities.
SSA Ltd will is uniquely poised to foster unprecedented and sustainable seafood industry development, generating significant social and economic benefits to Australia.
1. To underpin the further development of Seafood Services Australia Limited as a vital, national resource focused on industry development throughout the entire seafood supply chain
2. To enable SSA Ltd to build on the achievements of its predecessors and, in particular, to: a. inspire more strategic, integrated and forward-looking outlooks and actions among key players in the fishing industry and those who support the industry
b. encourage a “whole-of-supply-chain” approach to fisheries R&D planning and investment
c. encourage awareness and adoption of environmental management, quality management and food safety systems and associated certification
d. optimise national investment in fisheries R&D through influencing the way in which other R&D funding entities apply their industry development investments
e. deliver cost-effective, appropriate and timely knowledge, processes and technologies to enhance the industry’s profitability, international competitiveness and social resilience
f. develop and enhance effective networks within the seafood industry and between the seafood industry, researchers and government agencies involved in seafood industry development, both within Australia and overseas (See Section 5 of the Business Plan)
g. facilitate the dissemination, adoption and commercialisation of research results and other material for the benefit of the seafood industry
h. provide commercially sound advice and investment relating to industry development R&D
3. Position the seafood industry to meet future challenges by working with industry to develop and implement world’s best practice standards throughout the entire seafood supply chain.
4. Establish and maintain rigorous and accountable corporate governance procedures within SSA Ltd.
5. Establish a flexible and responsive mechanism that enables the seafood industry to attract private and public funding for seafood industry development from non-traditional funding sources.
Report
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PROJECT NUMBER
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2002-232
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Pearl Producers Association (PPA)
TAGS
SPECIES
Occupational health and safety national extension strategy
Project number:
2002-231
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$408,232.77
Principal Investigator:
Tanya L. Adams
Organisation:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Project start/end date:
27 Feb 2003
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30 Nov 2008
Contact:
FRDC
The WA Fishing Industry Council has supervised OH&S projects that are considered to be vital to the continued successful development of the State’s aquatic resources. The projects have been successful in demonstrating that the broader fishing industry needs a continuing process of improvement. The projects have also demonstrated that the industry can take the lead in OH&S issues, putting it in advance of legislative requirements. Other States have expressed the strong desire to emulate the success of WA, until such time as their relevant sectors of the industry take over the responsibility. There is a pressing need for each jurisdiction to evaluate and adopt OH&S Codes of Practice, and the most efficient manner for this to be done is via the adaptation of the WA OH&S codes.
WAFIC is required to review existing sections of the WA Code to ensure compliance with legislative requirments.
1. To be the node of Seafood Services Australia that delivers Occupational Health and Safety programmes nationally.
2. To provide each State and the Northern Territory with a comprehensive set of OH&S guidelines tailored to each jurisdiction's legislation and industry specific requirments.
Final report
ISBN:
978-0-9751694-1-4
Author:
Tanya Adams
Final Report
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2010-02-18
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321.62 KB
2002-231-DLD.pdf
All states have an OHS Code, which contains three parts. Part 1 addresses the legal requirements of workplace and marine safety legislation. Part 2 addresses generic OHS requirements across all fisheries. Part 3 outlines the basis for a vessel safety management plan. Workshops outlining the OHS Code have been held in some states and fisheries. State AGM‟s and industry meeting shave been attended to explain the project and the benefits to industry.
National atlas of fishing activities and coastal communities
Project number:
2002-223
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$629,047.50
Principal Investigator:
James Larcombe
Organisation:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Project start/end date:
30 Jan 2003
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1 Jul 2007
Contact:
FRDC
The proposal addresses a number of specific needs, as expressed in the FRDC research and development plan:
- Effects of fishing activities on fish and their ecosystems (Program 1, Strategy 3) - information on the spatial distribution and intensity of catch of species and effort is fundamental to assessing the effects of fishing on the environment. It is also very useful in assessment of individual stocks.
- Access to fisheries resources (Program 1, Strategy 8) - the distribution and value of fishing, as well as the potential social and economic impacts, is a vital consideration in multiple use planning (eg. Marine Protected Area planning).
- Fisheries and ecosystems management (Program 1, Strategy 10) - the proposal would make a significant contribution to ecosystem based and multiple use planning under the Regional Marine Planning process.
- Economic and social values of the industry and its impacts (Program 2, Strategy 2) - the proposal specifically aims to investigate socio-economic aspects of fisheries and connect these to marine resources. This will also assist in fulfilling ESD requirements.
- Community education (Program 3, Strategy 4) - the two major outputs (paper and web) will be widely available and comprise a valuable information resource for all Australians.
A tight schedule has been set for the development of Regional Marine Plans across Australia. Planning will require detailed information on the nature and extent of marine fishing activities. Nowhere has this information been drawn together to provide a body of data for use in regional marine planning. To ensure that the interests of the fishing industry are appropriately represented in the planning process it is important that accurate information is presented in a form that will be useful.
Similarly, the socio-economic nature of coastal communities and their degree of dependence on marine fisheries resources is poorly understood. The proposed research will provide a basis for identifying the social impacts of proposed changes to fisheries management arrangement and developing strategies for appropriate government interventions to reduce adverse impacts.
1. To develop a strategy for the management of national fisheries data. The strategy will focus on partnership arrangements and agreements with custodian agencies, scheduled data maintenance and updating and systems of data distribution. The strategy will refer to marine and estuarine commercial fishing and aquaculture specifically but will also consider recreational and indigenous fishing.
2. To develop a strategy for collection and collation of social data on an ongoing basis for future resource management use.
3. To undertake a one off fisheries national fisheries data collection, within the context of the National Fisheries Data Strategy development. These data will focus on catch, effort, method, location and port of landing collected from logbooks and fishery returns.
4. To derive social, demographic and economic profiles of coastal communities from existing data (1991, 1996 and 2001 ABS census data
BRS, AFMA and ABARE data
state and local government and other data sources such as consultants reports etc.)
5. To relate mapped fisheries resource usage to coastal communities.
Final report
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PROJECT NUMBER
•
2002-209
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA)
SPECIES
Sydney rock oyster hatchery and nursery health workshop
Project number:
2002-206
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$30,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Mike Heasman
Organisation:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date:
19 Oct 2002
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1 Jan 2004
Contact:
FRDC
1. To examine causes of mortality in oyster larvae and spat in hatcheries in NSW, other states and overseas.
2. To critically review procedures at the PSFC mollusc hatchery that might cause or contribute to Sydney rock oyster larval and spat mortality.
3. To assess the likelihood that strategic research can identify the problems casing mortality or develop processed to avoid it.
4. Depending on 3 above, to draft the objectives and methods for a three year research project aimed at solving hatchery mortality of Sydney rock oyster larvae and spat.
5. To recommend changes to current practices.
Final report
Author:
Mike Heasman
Final Report
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2017-09-29
•
2.79 MB
2002-206-DLD.pdf
Mass of mortality over the past decade in routine mass hatchery and nursery rearing to produce the millions of spat required for commercial operation. These same problems have also forced the abandonment of SRO production operations by several commercial hatcheries elsewhere in NSW. three complementary strategies have been developed and major resources marshaled, first strategy implement relatively simple but potentially significant modifications to existing bivalve hatchery facilities, rearing equipment and operating protocols at PSFC. The second strategy is assessing whether or not ‘in-house factors’ at PSFC, namely site and facility design and operational constraints (especially inherent plumbing design faults and hygiene constraints imposed by year-round competing demands for limited hatchery resources), have been responsible for variable and generally poor hatchery production of SRO spat. The third strategy, a 3-year program of systematic experimental investigation has been designed to optimize a wide spectrum of husbandry factors,
particularly those identified as of high probable significance during the course by an international health workshop that in August 2002. The program is also geared to ‘fast-track’ commercialization of SRO breeding program with the first large scale production run to be attempted in Sept/Oct 2003. A priority objective is rapid assessment of alternative settlement and spat rearing technologies, including use of spat bubblers and estuary-based field nursery systems, to promote fastest possible growth of spat to a size of 2 mm beyond which they appear to overcome susceptibility to the mass mortality syndrome. A critical outcome of the program will be to ensure the portability of improved commercial production technology developed.
particularly those identified as of high probable significance during the course by an international health workshop that in August 2002. The program is also geared to ‘fast-track’ commercialization of SRO breeding program with the first large scale production run to be attempted in Sept/Oct 2003. A priority objective is rapid assessment of alternative settlement and spat rearing technologies, including use of spat bubblers and estuary-based field nursery systems, to promote fastest possible growth of spat to a size of 2 mm beyond which they appear to overcome susceptibility to the mass mortality syndrome. A critical outcome of the program will be to ensure the portability of improved commercial production technology developed.
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PROJECT NUMBER
•
2002-204
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2002-202
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
SPECIES
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