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National Recreational Fishing Forum Series (2025-2029)

Project number: 2024-048
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $300,000.00
Principal Investigator: Cassie Price
Organisation: Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF)
Project start/end date: 27 Mar 2025 - 31 Aug 2029
Contact:
FRDC

Need

ARFF proposes to run a 1-day National Recreational Fishing Forum on Tuesday 22nd July 2025. With the set up and additional meetings around recreational fishing to be held on Wed 23rd, the AFTA Trade Show held on Thurs 24th, Fri 25th and Saturday 26th. Allowing participants to travel to the event on Monday 21st and home on Sunday 27th (if not prior). Followed by Annual events in the two years following.

Target Audience/s – Leaders in recreational fishing sector, future leaders of recreational fishing sector, key leaders of other fishing sectors (commercial wild and indigenous), decision makers in governments/departments relevant to recreational fishing. We expect between 150-300 participants.

ARFF will engage a conference organising agency (preferred proposal attached) on the Gold Coast, and set up a forum organising committee from their broader membership. Together they will;
- Determine the logistics of the location and set up, and alignment with AFTA events
- Set up online information and registration
- Promote broadly to recreational fishing groups, peak bodies and recreational fishers
- Determine a program, themes/topics and call for speakers
- Run the event smoothly including all pre event and post event logistics

FRDC will have the opportunity to receive,
- A place on the organising committee
- A mutually agreed number of complimentary registrations
- Any signage provided by FRDC for the forum on stage or at strategic meeting places in the forum break-out/gathering areas
- Logo on all materials, both hard copy and digital including conference website
- Ability to promote the event

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-197
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing FRDC’s 2020-2025 RD&E Plan

This report covers the second of two CSIRO contributions to the project FRDC 2018-197. This project was reviewing FRDC research objectives through a process that developed alternative scenarios of possible futures relevant to Australian fisheries. Discussed here is the development of a...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
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Bursaries for emerging leaders in the Southern Rock Lobster industry to attend the 2023 Trans-Tasman Lobster Congress and International Conference & Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management 2023

Project number: 2022-189
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $12,000.00
Principal Investigator: Tom T. Cosentino
Organisation: Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)
Project start/end date: 31 May 2023 - 4 Jan 2024
Contact:
FRDC

Need

SARLAC, SANZRLFA, TRLFA, VRLA, ARLEA Executive Officers will provide two nominations to the SRL EO. The SRL EO will provide reimbursements to the nominees to the value of $1,200 each ($2,400 per sector) . Sectors may divide their allocation between more than two bursary recipients.

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Rural Women's Award 2023-2026 bursaries

Project number: 2023-025
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $21,841.87
Principal Investigator: Sally Roberts
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 13 Aug 2023 - 27 Nov 2026
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Provide bursaries to enable and support attendance at the Rural Women's Award national announcement from 2023-2025.

Bursaries will include contributing to ticket, alumni event, travel and accommodation costs related to attending the annual announcement in Canberra.

Objectives

1. Build and develop leadership capability and capacity of women in fishing and aquaculture
2. Enable attendance and participation with the Rural Women's Award annually