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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-107

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Attendance at the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Tenure and User Rights Conference in Yeosu, Korea 10 to 14 September 2018

The present project, which was undertaken by Primary Industries and Regions South Australia, was developed to provide the opportunity to showcase the management arrangements in the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery (SGPF) and expand the knowledge base in relation to contemporary management arrangements in...

ORGANISATION:

Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)

TAGS

Individual Transferable Quota

SPECIES

King Prawns

National Snapper Workshop - Rebuilding our iconic Snapper stocks

Project number: 2019-085

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $59,857.04

Principal Investigator: Jonathan McPhail

Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)

Project start/end date: 29 Sep 2019 - 29 Sep 2020

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

Resource Rehabilitation

SPECIES

Snapper

Need

There are numerous Australian jurisdictions that have faced and are currently facing management challenges with Snapper stocks in decline. It proposed that a national Snapper workshop is needed to bring together from each jurisdiction fisheries managers, scientists and key stakeholders from the commercial and recreational fishing sectors to:

(1) Communicate findings on Snapper research, gain an insight into the challenges, successes and learnings from management arrangements implemented in each jurisdiction.
(2) Identify a national approach to collaborate and manage a Snapper stock that crosses jurisdictional boundaries
(3) Develop a set of national R&D priorities for Snapper, in particular dealing with the issue of ‘hyperstability’.
(4) Develop a tool kit to support fisheries managers recover Snapper stocks.

The main aim of the workshop is for each jurisdiction to exchange information on Snapper and to ensure that Snapper R&D has a national co-ordinated approach that addresses the challenges being faced, makes the most efficient use of available resources and integrates key stakeholders such as the recreational and commercial fisheries, government and research providers.

Objectives

1. To identify key issues and challenges for Snapper, review Snapper research, and critique jurisdictional management arrangements.

2. To explore a national approach to collaborate and manage cross-jurisdictional Snapper stocks.

3. To explore and develop a set of innovative national R&D priorities for Snapper that address the challenges being faced.

4. To develop a tool kit to support fisheries managers to recover depleted Snapper stocks.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-6482204-5-9

Authors: I. Cartwright J.W McPhail I Knuckey I Smith T N. Rayns and M. Steer

Final Report • 2020-09-21 • 1.08 MB

2019-085-DLD.pdf

Summary

The Department of Primary Industries and Regions organised and ran a national Snapper Workshop in Adelaide from the 12 to 14 November 2019 with funding from FRDC and the strong support of the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum. The workshop objectives were to:

identify key issues and challenges for Snapper, review Snapper research and critique jurisdictional management arrangements;
explore a national approach to collaborate and manage cross-jurisdictional Snapper stocks;
explore and develop a set of national R&D priorities for Snapper that address the challenges being faced; and,
develop a tool kit to support fishery managers to recover depleted Snapper stocks

Government representatives, independent scientists, fishery managers and Fisheries Research and Development Corporation representatives attended all three days of the workshop. Commercial, charter and recreational fishing representatives attended the last day of the workshop.

Improving early detection surveillance and emergency disease response to Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) using a hydrodynamic model for dispersion of OsHV-1

Project number: 2018-090

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $70,168.00

Principal Investigator: Shane D. Roberts

Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)

Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2018 - 31 Oct 2019

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

SPECIES

Need

Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) is a disease caused by Ostreid Herpesvirus type 1 (OsHV-1) microvariant, which causes rapid high mortalities (up to 100%) in Pacific oysters. POMS has caused significant economic impacts to the oyster growing industry in parts of NSW and Tasmania where it occurs. On 28 February 2018 OsHV-1 was first detected in Port Adelaide River feral oyster populations. PIRSA and industry mounted an immediate emergency response aimed at containing the virus to the Port and preventing spread to the nearby oyster industry (>25km away).

In the absence of accurate information, surveillance designs and emergency response plans (including translocation protocols) assume a disease spread distance of 5NM (10km) to define epidemiological units for all water bodies (see Figure 1). That uncertainty causes policy makers to take a conservative approach. Consequently there is a need to improve the accuracy of predictive information used to manage such aquatic disease incursions.

Aim: Model the dispersal of Ostreid herpesvirus (OsHV-1) particles from various locations around South Australia to determine epidemiological units aimed at improving surveillance, biosecurity zoning and future emergency responses.

This project aligns with two key objectives of Australia’s National Strategic Plan for Aquatic Animal Health (AQUAPLAN 2014-2019): (1) Enhance surveillance, and (2) Strengthen emergency disease preparedness and response capability. See http://www.agriculture.gov.au/animal/aquatic/aquaplan.

A recent FRDC project (2006/005) demonstrated how various oceanographic data can be incorporated into a hydrodynamic model (e-SA marine system) to map past, present and future ocean conditions. This project proposal will provide a case study for how such a model can predict pathogen spread to underpin improved surveillance designs, effective emergency disease response and appropriate biosecurity zoning for translocation protocols.

Objectives

1. To model viral particle dispersal at key locations around the State, including commercial oyster growing areas, known feral oyster populations and ports, and incorporating seasonal oceanographic parameters

2. Using hydrodynamic model outputs, identify epidemiological units to inform surveillance, disease management and emergency disease response activities

3. Demonstrate how hydrodynamic model outputs of predicted viral particle dispersal can be used to develop a risk-based surveillance design for the detection of OsHV-1

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-876007-22-5

Authors: Shane Roberts Charles James Matthew Bansemer Frank Colberg Saima Aijaz Kaine Jakaitis Eric Schulz and John Middleton

Final Report • 2020-01-01 • 6.85 MB

2018-090-DLD.pdf

Summary

Rapid predictive capability of viral spread through water during an aquatic disease outbreak is an epidemiologist’s dream, and up until now has not been achievable. A biophysical particle tracking model for Ostreid herpesvirus 1 microvariant (OsHV-1) that causes POMS was developed to determine virus spread during disease outbreaks in South Australian coastal waters. Model outputs from 23 hypothetical outbreaks across the State have provided valuable information for PIRSA to review and update current Disease Management Areas (DMAs) for POMS. Outputs from this project will greatly enhance future disease surveillance programs and emergency responses.

PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-016

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED