PROJECT NUMBER
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2022-180
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Hort Innovation
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PROJECT NUMBER
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2022-094
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Dr DM Stafford Smith (sole trader)
TAGS
PROJECT NUMBER
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2021-095
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Designing the integration of extension into research projects: tangible pathways to enhance adoption and impact
How can we get greater adoption of the outcomes from Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) projects? This
question has perplexed us for decades, and it seems there are no simple silver bullets. It’s a complex problem but through
this project, ‘Designing the...
ORGANISATION:
Hort Innovation
PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Storm Bay Biogeochemical Modelling & Information System Supporting sustainable aquaculture expansion in Tasmania
This project delivers a hindcast and near real time Storm Bay Modelling and Information System that is fit for the purpose of simulating water quality and characterising nutrients in Storm Bay from ocean currents, sediment resuspension, river and anthropogenic (including fish farm) inputs. The...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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.
Developing a value proposition and future track for the National Aquaculture Council (NAC)
Project number:
2019-207
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$30,650.00
Principal Investigator:
Kim Hooper
Organisation:
National Aquaculture Council (NAC)
Project start/end date:
14 Jul 2020
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29 Nov 2020
Contact:
FRDC
R&D includes the activities companies and groups undertake to innovate and introduce new products and services or to improve their existing offerings. The FRDC invests in RD&E to generate knowledge that can be used to create change which will benefit the fishing and aquaculture sectors and this, in turn, benefits Australia more broadly. This research is needed now to provide knowledge to clarify directions and roles in the context of national seafood leadership. Importantly, there is a need for Seafood Industry Australia and NAC to confirm their respective focus to the satisfaction of members, noting that SIA also has an aquaculture remit.
NAC has been representing the sector with severely limiting resources and at the end of last year, the Tasmanian Salmon Growers Association (TSGA), the largest aquaculture sector determined not to renew its membership on a wait and see basis. It is critical and timely for NAC to consult with its current and past members, and sectors not previously represented - including smaller and emerging sectors - and with other key stakeholders, to understand what their needs are for national representation. This includes understanding the RD&E for the sectors, and where these intersect with the objective to confirm what direction should be taken.
In addition, the research and priority setting would provide guidance to FRDC's RD&E planning to align with industry priorities and building on the work completed to date to inform the 2020-2025 vision.
Should it be determined that the NAC is needed and supported, a second phase of work (outside the scope of this application) would be identified to identify the structural, human, and financial resources needed to deliver the value for members. (The implementation of any operating models discerned, will be beyond the scope of FRDC-funded research).
1. Determine the value proposition for a national Aquaculture peak body
2. Confirm aquaculture industry shared priorities
Final report
Author:
David McKinna
Final Report
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2020-11-02
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2.28 MB
2019-207-DLD.pdf
Following a decline in its membership, the board of the National
Aquaculture Council (NAC) initiated this project to gain an
understanding of the needs and expectations of industry
stakeholders in terms of industry representation. The two core
objectives being:
1. To determine the ideal value proposition for a national
Aquaculture peak body, and
2. To confirm the shared priorities of all aquaculture industries
PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-086
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Improved risk management of paralytic shellfish toxins in Southern Rock Lobster
To examine toxicokinetics of PST in Southern Rock Lobster, an experimental study was undertaken in a biosecure aquaculture facility in South Australia. Adult male lobsters were fed highly toxic mussels (6 mg STX.2HCl equiv. kg−1) sourced from the Tasmanian east coast for 4...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania
SPECIES
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