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ACPF IPA Management and Community Engagement, People Development Programs

Project number: 2021-080
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $1,023,232.00
Principal Investigator: Rachel King
Organisation: Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)
Project start/end date: 31 Oct 2021 - 29 May 2026
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Need

The ACPF IPA management project is needed to:

1. Resource the investment of $3.98M under a 2021-2025 IPA across Environment, Industry, Communities, People, Adoption Programs according to the ACPF's 2021-2025 Strategic Plan (Note that the ACPF's Plan is aligned to the Goals of FRDC's 2020-2025 RD&E Plan)

2. Deliver a People Development Program

3. Deliver a Community Engagement Program which is designed to maintain moderated community engagement with RD&E projects (in the form of 'What We Care About Series')

Objectives

1. ACPF IPA RD&E funds are invested according to RD&E priorities in the 2021-2025 ACPF Strategic plan and the associated Program allocation %s
2. ACPF IPA RD&E investments address goals in the FRDC's 2021-2025 RD&E Plan
3. Commission stakeholder driven investments, in partnership with prawn fishery jurisdictions, that address RD&E priorities in the 2021-2025 ACPF Strategic plan
4. Collaborate with other sectors and utilise alternative funding sources to address RD&E priorities in the 2021-2025 ACPF Strategic plan
5. Engage the community on RD&E outputs that address shared values
6. Advance wild caught prawn sector people through a People Development Program
7. Finalise a 2026-2030 ACPF Strategic Plan and RD&E priorities
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-172
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Methods to profile and connect the provenance of wild caught prawn fisheries and their values to the community

The wild prawn industry, as a key influencer of the community's (sustainability) perception of the Australian seafood industry, has addressed identified risks to social license so that it can protect its legal license to operate in public waters. This report provides the results and conclusions on...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-065
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Disseminating existing bycatch reduction and fuel efficiency technologies throughout Australia's prawn fisheries

Prawn trawling is among the world's least selective fishing methods, the unintended consequence being large quantities of bycatch. It is also a method that can disturb benthic habitats and use large quantities of fuel—a significant running cost for many fisheries. Issues of bycatch and fuel...
ORGANISATION:
IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
Adoption