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Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-400
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sustainable Fishing Families: Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety and resilience

This project conducted the first national survey of the health, safety and wellbeing of the Australian professional fishing industry in 2017. The results of the survey provide a baseline for the state of the wild-catch industry members across a range of indicators, including reported physical and...
ORGANISATION:
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
TAGS
Wellbeing
Sustainability
Survey
Rac Wa
Rac Vic
People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-109
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of Fish Health Indicators for the Gladstone Harbour Report Card

As the link between land and sea environments, estuaries are complex ecosystems vulnerable to human impacts, which directly and indirectly affect plants and animals, including fish. Fish are key biological indicators of environmental contamination, as they are water breathers, common in aquatic...
ORGANISATION:
CQUniversity (CQU) Gladstone
TAGS
Innovation
Health Benefits
Data
Contamination
Behaviour
SPECIES
Pikey Bream
Yellowfin Bream
Barramundi
Mullets
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-092
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

FRDC communication of evidence-based information on the healthfulness and sustainability of seafood to Health Professionals

Seafood is a nutritionally important food and an inherent part of Australian eating culture. However, consumers are often unsure which seafood to eat. This is for a range of reasons, including not knowing enough about the defining features of differing species or how to prepare and cook them, as...
ORGANISATION:
Professional Nutrition Services
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Physiology
Nutrition
Health Benefits
People

Rural Safety & Health Alliance - A joint RDC initiative

Project number: 2018-214
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $60,000.00
Principal Investigator: Jenny Medway
Organisation: AgriFutures Australia
Project start/end date: 31 May 2019 - 29 Jun 2021
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workforce
Leadership
Health And Safety
Community

Need

Australia’s Rural Industries, represented by nine Rural Research and Development Corporations, are leading the way on health and safety improvement through effective research, development & extension (RD&E).

The Rural Safety and Health Alliance will facilitate cross-sectoral RD&E to minimise the negative impacts associated with death, injury and illness, and maximise the benefits of a productive, healthy and safe rural workforce.

For more information refer to: https://www.rsha.com.au/

Objectives

1. Key features of the alliance include setting clear priorities to better target research, development and extension, strengthening industry leadership and developing a ‘shark tank’ funding model, where applicants work together to pitch projects for funding.

Report

Report • 2020-05-12 • 1.80 MB
2018-214-WHS Industry Communications Guidelines (RSHA)-DLD.pdf

Summary

The Work Health and Safety (WHS) Communication Guidelines aim to help Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) and industry associations within the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector to communicate with flair and impact to improve WHS outcomes.   
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-213
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tackle Box - Fishing at home during Covid 19

This project examined the impact of Covid-19 on recreational fishing using a citizen science approach. The Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF) teamed up with Infofish Australia Pty Ltd to use recaptures of tagged fish in Queensland and fishing competitions around Australia in novel...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF)
TAGS
Recreational Fishing
Mental Health
Innovation
Habitat
Economic
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