The ACPF IPA management project is needed to:

1. Resource the investment of $3.98M under a 2021-2025 IPA across Environment, Industry, Communities, People, Adoption Programs according to the ACPF's 2021-2025 Strategic Plan (Note that the ACPF's Plan is aligned to the Goals of FRDC's 2020-2025 RD&E Plan)

2. Deliver a People Development Program

3. Deliver a Community Engagement Program which is designed to maintain moderated community engagement with RD&E projects (in the form of 'What We Care About Series')

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1. Tracing lobster origin
The need for determining whether stable isotopes are a useful tool for diet analysis and identification of catch location is a priority for the SRL fishery. If proved useful, this technology will allow for rapid identification and isolation of stock abnormalities – such as toxic algal blooms, which has potential to save a lot of time and money for fisheries management.

2. Invasive urchin controls
If results show that small lobsters do predate on urchins, this will be important for informing stock rebuilding targets and reference points relative to urchin control. Primarily we could advise on whether urchin control targets and performance indicators should be based on total lobster biomass or only large lobster biomass. For example, if small lobsters (140mm CL) are found to actively predate on small urchins, the pressure to rebuild the large lobster biomass (>140mm CL) may be reduced. This could in turn help to adapt the rebuild strategy, in line with effective urchin control.