PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-070
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
256 results
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-060
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
The Detection of Ciguatera Toxins in NSW Spanish Mackerel
Ciguatera Poisoning (CP) is an illness through the consumption of fish containing naturally occurring toxins, and is considered a high risk for Australian seafood safety. Ciguatoxins (CTXs) are produced by benthic microalgae (Gambierdiscus spp). In Australia, CP cases are related to fish caught in...
ORGANISATION:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
SPECIES
Community Trust in Rural Industries - A framework for advancing social acceptance of the agriculture sector in Australia - A joint RDC initiative
Project number:
2019-042
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$105,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Jenny Medway
Organisation:
AgriFutures Australia
Project start/end date:
30 Jun 2019
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30 Jun 2023
Contact:
FRDC
AgriFutures Australia, on behalf of the RDC funding partners, is seeking to develop a sector wide understanding of community trust in rural industries. This scope includes identifying key and material issues with industry stakeholders in order to effectively baseline community sentiment quantitatively. This baseline will then provide data against which additional data collection activities in years two and three may be used to assess sector initiatives designed to improve trust, monitor changes in community trust and its drivers due to external factors, and clearly communicate sector sustainability narratives to key external and internal stakeholders. Moreover, there is significant power in approaching this as a collective of agricultural industries to develop a consolidated, consistent framework for community trust that may then be used in industry-specific ways as required.
1. A stakeholder engagement process to determine the industry’s key social license issues
2. An annual quantitative benchmark survey of community sentiment, including issues identified in the stakeholder engagement process
3. Pathways and models for improving community trust and acceptance over time
4. A report outlining the social insights and trust building strategies
5. Supporting communication material to facilitate interpretation of the data insights and research outcomes
Project products
Optimising Compliance Outcomes in Recreational Fisheries
Project number:
2019-011
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$20,605.90
Principal Investigator:
Jade Lindley
Organisation:
University of Western Australia (UWA)
Project start/end date:
1 Dec 2019
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6 Jun 2021
Contact:
FRDC
SPECIES
This research questions how best to optimise compliance within the WA and SA blue swimmer crab fishery. Optimising 'cooperative compliance' in a fishery should consider the perspectives of those paying management costs, those tasked with management and fishers themselves, yet little formal study exists of the perceptions of the effectiveness of recreational fisheries rules and their impact on the overall fishing experience.
WA Peel-Harvey and SA blue swimmer crab recreational fisheries are large, iconic, accessible and popular fisheries. A licence is not required and inspections often reveal high levels of noncompliance with regulations, requiring intensive education and enforcement efforts. These fisheries present a challenge: minimising management costs and restrictions while maximising recreational fisher enjoyment can be conflicting aims.
There is clearly a need to identify optimal education and enforcement strategies that can be demonstrated to work well in a recreational context of low inspection coverage (typically fewer than 10% of fishing opportunities are subject to inspection in recreational fisheries) with a cryptic fisher population that lacks licencing or registration requirements to target education.
FRDC 2014/206 led to development of a Compliance Outcomes Framework adopted by WA and SA, but a need remains to develop metrics for that framework. Perceptions of the effectiveness of rules and their impact on the recreational fishing experience could meet that need.
Prospective longitudinal studies are the gold standard in measuring change over time and demonstrating causality for that change. To determine the cost-effectiveness of such a study for a fishery, there is a need for scoping work to ascertain suitability of existing datasets, sampling methodologies and what skills and experience would be required to undertake the work. This project will consider those issues and others to determine the feasibility of undertaking such longitudinal studies to routinely assess the effectiveness of fisher education and enforcement strategies and how rules impact on fisher enjoyment.
This application targets Human Dimensions Research Goal 2: Understanding compliance behaviour of fishers.
1. To characterise the quality and contents of compliance datasets held by WA and SA government agencies and specific to two recreational blue swimmer crab fisheries, in order to evaluate their adequacy for social science research objectives such as longitudinal studies.
2. To analyse existing blue swimmer crab compliance datasets for trends and insights and test those findings against reference groups.
3. To contrast recreational blue swimmer crab fisher’s attitudes towards compliance in WA and SA to their own, and the other jurisdictions' management frameworks.
4. Determine whether illegal catch can be estimated based on assessment of available data and analysis of drivers of non-compliance.
5. To conduct a proof of concept that scopes out the resources, expertise and design necessary to show changes in blue swimmer crab fisher behaviour and attitudes and demonstrate any causality to education and enforcement strategies and their effect on 'cooperative compliance'.
6. To better understand how recreational blue swimmer crab fishers in both jurisdictions obtain information and respond to education and enforcement strategies.
Final report
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
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29 Jun 2021
Contact:
FRDC
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/
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.
Developing primary school teacher kits for use by the Professional Fishers Association (NSW)
Project number:
2018-213
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$13,047.39
Principal Investigator:
Emily A. Mantilla
Organisation:
Honey and Fox Pty Ltd
Project start/end date:
2 Jun 2019
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29 Sep 2019
Contact:
FRDC
PFA has been awarded 50% funds to hold a Seafood Industry in Partnership with Coffs Harbour School - (Grades 2-6). The students will visit the Coffs Harbour Fishermen's Cooperative on the 21-22 May to be shown the variety of seafood, seafood handling, filleting, fishing methods, the ocean to plate story etc.
1. Develop two teacher kits
2. Collate existing Australian seafood, aquaculture and wild catch school resources currently available nationally
Final report
ISBN:
13: 978-0-9876352-3-5
Author:
Emily Mantilla
Final Report
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2019-09-10
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409.00 KB
2018-213-DLD.pdf
To support a series of school excursions run by the Professional Fisherman's Association a series of lesson plans were developed to support teaching during the excursion and back in the classroom. These lesson plans made up the first stage of the project. The second stage of the project was to conduct an audit of existing primary and secondary school resources that are available in digital and hard copy.
Long-term analysis of the sea-state in the Great Australian Bight
Project number:
2018-210
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$21,261.00
Principal Investigator:
Charles E. James
Organisation:
University of Adelaide
Project start/end date:
6 Aug 2019
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21 Oct 2019
Contact:
FRDC
SPECIES
The Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association (ASBTIA) operates in shelf and offshore waters of the Great Australian Bight (GAB). In recognition of the exposed nature of the offshore GAB environment, ASBTIA have requested information to better understand the climatology of the physical meteorological and oceanographic conditions which contribute to the ‘sea-state’ and ocean conditions at a deep water petroleum permit location in the Great Australian Bight.
This project will provide the oceanographic services required to identify, access and analyse long-time series of relevant met/ocean parameters and statistically describe their climatology in order to better understand the ‘sea state’ characteristics of the GAB and how they compare with sites located within other international oil production regions.
1. To understand the exposure and sea-state of the Great Australian Bight relative to three other regions of interest.
3. For each location and parameter (detailed in methods), provide a summary of monthly sea-state climatology described by the mean, variance, frequency and intensity.
3. For each location and parameter, determine of the probability of extreme events to occur at fixed return periods.
Final report
ISBN:
978-1-876007-29-4
Author:
Charles James and Mark J. Doubell
Final Report
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2020-08-31
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5.14 MB
2018-210-DLD.pdf
This report provides a detailed characterisation, assessment and prediction of the meteorological and oceanographic conditions that will be encountered by, and have the potential to impact, future petroleum activities in the Great Australian Bight. In the absence of direct, long-term observations, the improved understanding of the offshore Great Australian Bight environment generated by this study is critical to the assessment of the suitability of the Great Australian Bight for hosting offshore petroleum industry and response planning necessary to mitigate any environmental impacts which may result from associated activities.
Bursaries for emerging leaders in the Southern Rock Lobster industry to attend the 2019 Trans-Tasman Lobster Congress.
Project number:
2018-207
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$21,225.38
Principal Investigator:
Tom T. Cosentino
Organisation:
Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Project start/end date:
31 May 2019
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30 Oct 2019
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
SPECIES
Informing strategies, policies and options supporting owner-operated fishing businesses in fisheries experiencing corporatisation
Project number:
2018-205
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$14,023.89
Principal Investigator:
Tom T. Cosentino
Organisation:
Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Project start/end date:
31 May 2019
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30 Dec 2019
Contact:
FRDC
SPECIES
Southern rock lobster fishers have expressed concerns about trends in ownership of the fishery, including issues like concentration of ownership, foreign ownership and loss of regional economic benefits. Fisheries managers and industry leaders have expressed interest in attending a workshop that is aimed to conceptualise small-scale fisheries, the role of the state in facilitating or limiting corporatisation, and the extent that corporations are involved in conservation.
1. Plan for and adapt to corporatisation in the southern rock lobster fishery and summarise concerns and identify possible solutions.
2. Identify ways that fishers can become better organized and better able to protect their interests.
3. Identify comparisons with fisheries that exist within ITQ managed systems.
Final report
ISBN:
978-1-925983-56-2
Author:
Thomas Cosentino
Final Report
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2020-11-13
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10.09 MB
2018-205-DLD.pdf
The Australian wild caught Southern rock lobster industry operates in the South Eastern part of Australia and spans three distinct jurisdictional areas - South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. The industry comprises a fleet of vessels run by a mix of family owned and operated business and vertically integrated export businesses. Some industry participants consider that the ownership structure has an impact on the culture of the industry which extends to benefits to regional communities, employment and job satisfaction. Southern Rocklobster Limited (SRL) recognised there is diversity in the composition of the industry’s structure and the receipt of benefits from the fishery varies between user types.
A workshop hosted by Southern Rocklobster Limited was held in Melbourne in October 2019, to allow industry stakeholders, managers and investors the opportunity to discuss the current industry structure and determine any paths of action. The purpose of the workshop was not to consult with industry on various options, but to lead thought and inform strategies, policies and options on what areas industry could improve, and how it could implement change to achieve those improvements.
FRDC Community Engagement Strategy Evaluation Framework
Project number:
2018-201
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$89,891.00
Principal Investigator:
Victoria Pilbeam
Organisation:
Clear Horizon
Project start/end date:
14 May 2019
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31 Oct 2019
Contact:
FRDC
The objective for this project is to design and pilot an M&E framework and toolkit for fisheries and aquaculture community engagement. The M&E Framework support a more systematic approach to industry evaluation and generate useful information to support industry decision-making by clearly articulating priority outcomes. While the evaluation toolkit will provide industry organisations with practical resources for planning, conducting and learning from the evaluation of community engagement processes
1. Design and pilot an M&E framework and toolkit for fisheries and aquaculture community engagement
2. The M&E Framework will support a more systematic approach to industry evaluation and generate useful information to support industry decision-making by clearly articulating priority outcomes.
3. The M&E toolkit will provide industry organisations with practical resources for planning, conducting and learning from the evaluation of community engagement processes.
Final report
Author:
Clear Horizon
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