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PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-153
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fishing and Aquaculture Workforce Capability Framework

In 2023 RM Consulting Group (RMCG) was contracted by FRDC to develop a Fisheries and Aquaculture (F&A) Workforce Capability Framework (hereafter referred to as the Framework) that would be used as a high-level, standardised tool across all F&A sectors. The FRDC and other groups in leadership...
ORGANISATION:
RM Consulting Group (RMCG)
TAGS
Workforce
Leadership
Capacity Building
People
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-023
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Practicing aquatic animal welfare: Identifying and mitigating obstacles to uptake and adoption by the Australian Fishing Industry

This FRDC funded research focuses on the obstacles to, and drivers of, positive practice change relating to aquatic animal welfare (AAW) in Australia’s wild-catch commercial fishing and finfish aquaculture sectors. It was conducted between December 2019 and March 2022 in response to...
ORGANISATION:
ENVision Environmental Consulting
TAGS
Wellbeing
Human Dimensions Research
Fisheries Management
Community
Animal Welfare
Communities
People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-065
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Indicators for density and biomass of exploitable abalone – developing and applying a new approach

The objectives of this project are to use the Victorian Western Zone (WZ) abalone fishery to develop and evaluate a new approach to calculating abalone density and biomass indicators from the combination of three information sources. The three information sources are: i. ...
ORGANISATION:
Western Abalone Divers Association (WADA)
TAGS
Survey
Stock Assessment
Resource Access And Allocation
Fishing Gear
Fishing Effort
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Brownlip Abalone
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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-126
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian Agrifood Data Exchange (OzAg Data Exchange): Deliver an interconnected data highway for Australia's AgriFood value chain - Proof of concept

Pain point: The delay in exchange and reconciliation of catch data by fishers and processors means that there is a delay in quota accounting which impacts planning due to lack of timely information. Furthermore, with no access to pre-fishing information data to the processors means they are unable...
ORGANISATION:
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
TAGS
Traceability
Digitisation
Data

FRDC Australian Rural Leadership Foundation Alumni bursaries 2022

Project number: 2022-066
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $12,395.19
Principal Investigator: Sally Roberts
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 18 Sep 2022 - 1 Dec 2022
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Leadership
Capacity Building

Need

Attend ARLF gala dinner on 26 October 2022, travel (flights, 1 night accommodation, incidentals) and ticket included in the bursary.
Attend Revive leadership Development 27-30 Oct, travel (flights, accommodation, incidentals) and ticket included in the bursary.

This provides an opportunity for the alumni to re-engage with networks, utilise and develop their capabilities which has both individual and collective industry capability and capacity benefits.

Objectives

1. Build leadership capability and capacity in fishing and aquaculture
2. Enable fishing and aquaculture leaders to reconnect and develop networks
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