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Bursaries to attend the 2022 New Zealand Seafood Industry Conference

Project number: 2022-052
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $2,675.22
Principal Investigator: Claire Webber
Organisation: SA Sardine Industry Association Inc
Project start/end date: 12 Aug 2022 - 19 Aug 2022
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Bursary recipient will attend five sessions over the two day conference:
- Fishing with care and precision
- Thriving coastal communities
- Growing market value
- Healthy marine environments
- Modernising fisheries management

Additional conference activities will be attended were possible, including networking functions and FRDC meetings.

Benefits of including the bursary recipient in the Australian delegation to New Zealand include:
- Improvements in trans-tasman industry relationships
- Enhanced learning and sharing on important industry issues (notably electronic monitoring of fleets)
- Relevance and input to group discussion and thinking regarding important session topics and ideas
- Increased understanding of government policy decisions and drivers and other external impacts on fishing industry productivity

Objectives

1. Australian fishing industry participation at the Seafood NZ Conference 2022
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-117
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A global review on implications of plastic in seafood

Microplastics are commonly consumed by seafood species however, there is still limited understanding of the effects and implications that microplastics may have on the fishing and aquaculture industry. This project summarises research on the effects that microplastic may be having on seafood...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-088
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Quantifying inter-sectoral values within and among the Indigenous, commercial and recreational sectors

This study explored the extent to which values are shared (or not shared) by fishers across three key sectors (i.e., Indigenous, commercial and recreational). The study was run online using Q-Method Software (https://qmethodsoftware.com), a semi-quantitative technique used to explore human...
ORGANISATION:
Natural Capital Economics
People
Environment
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-209
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Digital Campaign: Innovation, sustainability, labour retention in Western Australian inshore fisheries - National video stories investment

This project developed a suite of videos that showcased an unbiased and authentic perspective on what the commercial wild catch sector looks like from the fishers' perspective. Through a series of interviews, each video focuses on the themes of - career opportunities, sustainability within wild...
ORGANISATION:
Anvil Media
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