PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-052 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Digital Transformation of the WRL industry to help resolve challenges and leverage opportunities to grow GVP and maintain competitiveness Phase 2 ORGANISATION: Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC) TAGS Digitisation Capacity Building SPECIES Western Rock Lobster
PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-048 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT National Recreational Fishing Forum Series (2025-2029) ORGANISATION: Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF) TAGS Leadership Conference Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-044 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Inaugural International Conference of Indigenous Researchers at the 25th International Seaweed Symposium, Victoria British Columbia. ORGANISATION: Moonrise Seaweed Co. Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-043 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Southern Ocean Industry attendance at 3rd Kerguelen Plateau Symposium - bursary ORGANISATION: Australian Longline Fishing Pty Ltd TAGS Symposium Commercial Species Climate Change Capacity Building SPECIES Patagonian Toothfish
PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-041 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT National Seafood Industry Leadership Program (NSILP) 2025-2026 ORGANISATION: Mi-Fish Consulting Pty Ltd TAGS Leadership Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-027 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Centro Workshop - Actions and management outcomes for Longspined Sea Urchin ORGANISATION: Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff TAGS Rac Vic Rac Tas Rac Nsw Market Opportunities Invasive Species SPECIES Southern Rock Lobster Abalone Sea Urchins
PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-013 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Australian Sea Country Conference 2024 ORGANISATION: Aboriginal Sea Company TAGS Indigenous
PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-002 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Sponsorship: WISA Power Up Breakfast 2024 Seafood Directions ORGANISATION: Women in Seafood Australasia (WISA) TAGS Conference Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-209 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Workshop event: Establishing a maritime training and education facility on the NSW South Coast ORGANISATION: Barangaroo Consulting TAGS Training Indigenous Education Community
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-198 PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED First Nations Leadership Capacity Building and Macroalgae Research Trip to the 9th Asian Pacific Phycological Forum (APPF 2024) in Hokkaido, Japan. ORGANISATION: Moonrise Seaweed Co. Pty Ltd TAGS Seaweed
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-170 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT FRDC Fish Tank: building the research communities capability and capacity (Seafood Directions 2024/2026) ORGANISATION: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) TAGS Leadership Communications
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-160 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Economic Impact assessment of FRDC's annual RD&E investments: a three year procurement ORGANISATION: GHD Pty Ltd Sydney TAGS Economic
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-159 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Consultation pathways for Australian fishing and seafood industry focused RD&E to deliver improved economic, environmental and social benefits to Australia’s Indigenous people through the Indigenous Reference Group (IRG) and Indigenous RD&E program support ORGANISATION: Five Cubed Environmental Indigenous Consultants Pty Ltd TAGS Indigenous
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-157 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Safety & Wellbeing Steering Committee annual workshops ORGANISATION: Seafood Industry Australia (SIA) TAGS Workshop Safety Health And Safety Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-156 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Northern Territory Aquaculture Research, Development and Extension Workshop 2024 and supporting Aboriginal partner attendance ORGANISATION: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT) TAGS Workshop Aquaculture SPECIES Black Jewfish Barramundi Black Tiger Prawn Banana Prawns Sea Cucumbers
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-155 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Prawn trawl sea-snake bycatch reduction device - Assessment, refinement, and extension ORGANISATION: Sea Harvest Fishing Company Pty Ltd TAGS Rac Wa Fisheries Management Environmental Impact Bycatch SPECIES Prawns
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-132 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Capability and Capacity: Navigating leadership pathways in fishing and aquaculture ORGANISATION: CQUniversity (CQU) Rockhampton TAGS Leadership Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-131 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Capability and Capacity: Understanding diverse learning approaches and knowledge transfer opportunities to inform and enable change ORGANISATION: CQUniversity (CQU) Rockhampton TAGS Training Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-126 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Environment Social Governance (ESG) framework plan for fisheries and aquaculture ORGANISATION: ERM Australia Consultants Pty Ltd TAGS Sustainability Responsible Fishing Consumer Community
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-125 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Toxicological studies of nodularin to underpin risk management of seafood in Gippsland Lakes ORGANISATION: Cawthron Institute TAGS Toxin Rac Vic Consumer Health SPECIES Black Bream Dusky Flathead Sydney Rock Oyster Prawns
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-124 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Establishing a national end of life fishing/aquaculture gear recovery system for Australia ORGANISATION: TierraMar Ltd trading as Ocean Earth Foundation TAGS Wild Catch Recreational Fishing Rac Wa Marine Plastics Environmental Impact
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-117 PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED 2024 Fishing & Farming for the Future - DAF Hermitage Research Facility Schools Plant Science Competition ORGANISATION: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QLD) - Hermitage Research Facility TAGS Education Capacity Building
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-112 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Common approach to Greenhouse Gas Accounting; Platform – Build 1 (AIA Environmental Accounting Platform) ORGANISATION: Agricultural Innovation Australia Ltd (AIA) TAGS Climate Resilience
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-109 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Australian Council of Prawn Fishers Industry Partnership Agreement - Environment RD&E Program ORGANISATION: Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF) TAGS Trawl Technology Transfer Marine Plastics Bycatch SPECIES Prawns
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-106 PROJECT STATUS: CURRENT Capability and Capacity: Innovation bursaries and conference sponsorship ORGANISATION: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) TAGS Innovation Education Conference Communications Capacity Building