PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-109
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Western Abalone Divers Association (WADA)
SPECIES
30 results
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2017-039
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Developing East Arnhem Ltd (DEAL)
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2016-206
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Indigenous fishing subprogram: Business Nous - Indigenous business development opportunities and impediments in the fishing and seafood industry
The Business Nous Project (BN) research and outputs have been finalised in November 2019 with the completion of the website and workshop outputs and the project evaluation. The project delivered successfully on three of the four objectives with the workshop component of the project is being held in...
ORGANISATION:
Affectus Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-192
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Travel Bursary to attend the AquaVet program at Cornell University, in Massachusetts, USA
AQUAVET is a demanding intensive 4 week aquatic veterinary medicine course aimed to equip members of the veterinary profession with the skills and knowledge required to work in the aquatic field. The biomedical skills used so successfully by veterinarians to deal with disease and increase...
ORGANISATION:
Panaquatic Health Solutions Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2015-024
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Managing ecosystem interactions across differing environments: building flexibility and risk assurance into environmental management strategies
Summary
The overarching aim of this research was to provide an improved understanding of the environmental interactions of Atlantic Salmon farming and to provide recommendations to both government and industry on monitoring and management strategies that are appropriate to the level of risk...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2016-406
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Australian Society for Fish Biology: Scientific networking, early career development and international engagement
The 2019 ASFB conference was held in Canberra from 14 to 17 October, 2019 at the National Library of Australia, ACT. The conference theme of “Communicate to illuminate & inspire" encouraged the 251 delegates (including 62 students) from across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa,...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Society For Fish Biology Inc
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2017-094
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
NCCP: Review of Carp control via commercial exploitation
The present study, undertaken by Charles Sturt University, was developed to investigate the potential for commercial, or subsidised, fishery exploitation to effectively control carp populations in Australia. Using published literature examples of fish (and other) vertebrate pest-removal...
ORGANISATION:
La Trobe University Mildura Campus
SPECIES
Valuing Victoria's Wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture industries
Project number:
2017-092
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$507,438.75
Principal Investigator:
Kate Barclay
Organisation:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Project start/end date:
28 Feb 2018
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31 May 2022
Contact:
FRDC
A study which measures the contribution of Victorian wild-catch and aquaculture fisheries to community wellbeing will meet multiple needs:
• Generate detailed, spatially-defined knowledge on the economic and social contributions of fisheries to community wellbeing, and elicit where contributions could be enhanced
• Inform government (local, state) of the importance of fisheries and likely impacts of policy or management decisions on regional and metropolitan communities
• Enhance community engagement and support for fisheries through demonstrating the benefits that flow from professional fishing and aquaculture sectors into communities
Audience: 1) industry representative organizations; 2) government; 3) general public. Currently, very little data exists about the economic and/or social benefits of professional fisheries to communities in Victoria. Existing data only calculate total value of production (beach/farm gate price x volume), and the number of business owners or fisheries employees identified in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census. There is no reporting of the multiplier effects in communities of having businesses based there, through service industries or seafood product going into markets. The lack of sophisticated information about the contributions of professional fishing puts the industry as a group at a disadvantage compared to competing resource users which do have such reporting and have been persuasive in negotiations.
Information on social contributions dovetails with economic contributions to build a picture of the overall contributions fisheries make. This can help address the lack of community support for fisheries and consumer influence on the regulatory environment, which has grown to constitute a threat to the continued viability of fisheries. While information generated via this project will not fix the problem – relationships between industry and community must be improved via sustained, strategic engagement – credible data on the social and economic contributions commercial fisheries make to Victoria is useful for boosting the industry’s ‘social license to operate’.
1. Evaluate the economic contribution of commercial wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture to community wellbeing for seven regions of Victoria, including the regional economic impacts such as multiplier effects and employment and contributions to related sectors within regions, building on previous Australian studies.
2. Evaluate the social contributions of commercial wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture to community wellbeing for the same regions, including the social aspects of economic contributions, food provision, health and nutrition, services and infrastructure, interactions with tourism, consumers, and recreational fishers, contributions to community identity and heritage, and knowledge networks, building on previous Australian studies.
3. Build on and refine a methodology to be used for ongoing social and economic evaluations of industry as part of FRDC national framework.
4. Disseminate findings, identifying the social and economic contributions of seafood production to community wellbeing for each study region, highlighting threats to sustainability and viability, as well as opportunities, in a form suitable for engaging: 1) local and state government agencies
and 2) the general public, to raise awareness of the role of professional wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture in Victorian communities.
Final report
ISBN:
978-0-9953662-5-1
Authors:
Abernethy
K.
Barclay
K.
McIlgorm
A.
Gilmour
P.
McClean
N.
Davey
J.
Final Report
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2020-06-29
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6.04 MB
2017-092-DLD.pdf
This project provides the first evaluation of the social and economic contributions of wildcatch professional fisheries and aquaculture of Victoria to the communities in which the industries are located and to the entire state. This project was developed in consultation with the Victorian seafood industry who identified the need to communicate the economic value of their industry, inclusive of the economic contribution of businesses supplying or being supplied by seafood producers. In addition, there was no evaluation of the social benefits of the industry to Victoria.
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2017-233
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Future Oysters CRC-P Communication and Adoption
The Future Oysters CRC-P project (CRC-P 2016-553805; Future Oysters) was funded by the Australian Government’s Business Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program, which is managed by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS).
The Future Oysters CRC-P project was developed to...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd (ASI)
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2019-091
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Non-Market Impact Valuation for Fisheries RD&E (Phase I)
This report, titled ‘Non-Market Impact Valuation for Fisheries RD&E – Phase I: An Investigation and Gap Analysis of Non-Market Impact Valuation Studies for Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture RD&E’, presents the findings of the first stage of a process to assess and...
ORGANISATION:
Agtrans Research
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