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Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-049
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Monitoring abalone juvenile abundance following removal of Centrostephanus and translocation

A new system of Abalone recruitment modules (ARMs) have proven to be successful in collecting juvenile abalone in Tasmanian waters. This design was subsequently transferred to the Eastern Zone, Victoria, where IMAS staff and Eastern Zone Abalone Industry Association (EZIZA) members installed ARMs at...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Reproduction
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Blank
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-075
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

National Workshop to develop a regional collaborative plan to control the invasive Longspined Sea Urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii)

The 2023 National Centrostephanus Workshop was convened by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania. The workshop brought together 130 representatives from industry, government, research, Aboriginal communities, recreational fishing groups, and the community to: • Identify...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)
TAGS
Rac Vic
SPECIES
Sea Urchins
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-038
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Long-term recovery of trawled marine communities 25 years after the world’s largest adaptive management experiment

This project investigated the extent to which trawled communities of Australia’s North-West Shelf have recovered from high levels of trawling before the exclusion of foreign fleets in 1990 and after the imposition of tight controls on trawl and trap fishing in the early 1990s. The results...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Threatened Endangered Protected Species
SPECIES
Emperors
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-019
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Removal of microalgae and total nitrogen in effluent water from prawn farms using electrocoagulation (EC) water treatment technology

This project focused on addressing a key challenge of the Australian prawn industry: the reduction/removal of nitrogen (N) and the coagulation of suspended solids (including microalgae) to facilitate the expansion of the industry whilst continuing to meet these sustainability targets. The...
ORGANISATION:
Nautilus Collaboration Pty Ltd
TAGS
Sustainability
SPECIES
Black Tiger Prawn
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-131
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Storm Bay Observing System: Assessing the Performance of Aquaculture Development

In Tasmania, farming of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L) has developed rapidly since the first trials in 1985 and has grown progressively to the current 60,000 tonnes produced in 2020.. Salmon farming in open sea cages produces organic and inorganic wastes which have the potential to impact the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
TAGS
Sustainability
SPECIES
Atlantic Salmon
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-054
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

NCCP: Social, economic, and ecological risk assessment for use of Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3) for carp biocontrol in Australia

The ecological and social risk assessment detailed in the three volumes of this report was one of the projects funded through the NCCP. The ecological component of the assessment was undertaken in two parts: (a) A compilation of the science and epidemiology of CyHV-3 and an assessment of...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Health and Biosecurity
TAGS
Survey
SPECIES
European Carp
Environment
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)
TAGS
Storm Bay
SPECIES
Atlantic Salmon
Environment
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
TAGS
Modelling
SPECIES
European Carp
Environment

Non-Market Impact Valuation for Fisheries RD&E (Phase I)

Project number: 2019-091
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $42,000.00
Principal Investigator: Talia C. Hardaker
Organisation: Agtrans Research
Project start/end date: 6 Feb 2020 - 30 Jul 2020
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TAGS
Non Market Values
Marketing
Environmental Impact
Ecosystem
Data

Need

FRDC requires a study to assess and compile relevant, publicly available, non-market impact valuation studies for potential use in future FRDC RD&E impact assessments and an assessment of the major gaps in the available non-market information related to the environmental and social impacts of fisheries RD&E to inform and prioritise potential future willingness-to-pay studies.

Objectives

1. Assess and compile relevant, publicly available, non-market impact valuation studies for potential use in future FRDC RD&E impact assessments.
2. Identify and prioritise the major data/information gaps in the available non-market information related to the environmental and social impacts of fisheries RD&E to inform potential future willingness-to-pay studies.

Final report

Authors: Buyani Thomy Talia Hardaker Peter Chudleigh and Jim Binney
Final Report • 2020-10-01 • 1.05 MB
2019-091-DLD.pdf

Summary

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 compile relevant, publicly available, non-market impact valuation studies for potential use in future Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) research, development and extension (RD&E) impact assessments. The report also provides an assessment of the major gaps in the available non-market information related to the environmental and social impacts of fisheries RD&E to inform and prioritise potential future WTP studies. The project was funded to address a recommendation made in the FRDC’s November 2018 Independent Performance Review conducted by Forest Hill Consulting that stated: ‘FRDC should develop and implement with its impact assessment provider a project to assess willingness-to-pay studies of environmental attributes of fishery resources and externalities arising from aquaculture as input into future assessments of the environmental impacts of FRDC’s Environment Program.’

Project products

Data • 2020-10-01 • 190.75 KB
2019-091-DLD.xlsx

Summary

A desktop review and assessment of the range and types of impacts attributable to past FRDC RD&E investments was undertaken. Impacts identified from past evaluations then were categorised in a triple bottom line framework. Environmental and social impacts were subsequently summarised to create a short-list of major fisheriesand aquaculture RD&E (hereafter referred to as ‘fisheries RD&E’) environmental and social impact types. The short-list of key environmental and social impact types was used to inform a comprehensive literature review of non-market valuations of environmental and social impacts associated with fisheries RD&E. Following completion of the literature review, a reference list/ database of available non-market valuation studies was developed in Microsoft Excel®. 
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