PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-044
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
SPECIES
81 results
Integrating recreational fishing information into harvest strategies for multi-sector fisheries
Project number:
2019-021
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$444,676.00
Principal Investigator:
Ashley Fowler
Organisation:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date:
31 Oct 2019
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31 Oct 2023
Contact:
FRDC
Integration of recreational fishing (RF) into harvest strategies (HS) is necessary for many fisheries in Australia, to account for catches that can equal or exceed commercial catch for some key species and to address biological and experiential objectives of the RF sector. Both the Productivity Commission’s report Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture (2016) and the ICES Report from the Working Group Recreational Fishing Surveys (2018) recommend formal integration of RF into stock assessments and harvest strategies. Failure to do so puts sustainable management goals and legislated state and Commonwealth fisheries requirements at risk.
Equitable and quantitative inclusion of RF in harvest strategies is rare. This stems from a traditional focus on the commercial sector and budgetary challenges involved with representatively sampling RF. It is therefore unclear: 1) what types of RF data and monitoring best service stock assessments, (2) which data also track indicators of recreational objectives (often related to the fishing experience), and (3) how to integrate harvest strategy components for multiple sectors. The need to address these knowledge gaps was highlighted by the FRDC priority research call in 2018 - “Integrating recreational fishery data into harvest strategies for multi-sector fisheries in New South Wales”. NSW provides an important test case for addressing issues around RF integration that are faced by most jurisdictions.
Harvest strategy development for multi-sector fisheries requires a transparent and defensible process due to complexities in addressing diverse objectives and apprehension among stakeholder groups. Structured workshops that use easily-understandable, interactive decision support tools and involve independent experts and stakeholder representatives are likely to provide best outcomes. ‘FishPath’ is a leading harvest strategy decision support tool and “bottom up” engagement philosophy that allows experts and stakeholders to interactively contribute to harvest strategy development in a transparent workshop setting. However, it requires additional development in recreational and multi-sector contexts.
1. Obtain information on recreational fishing objectives and facilitate improved understanding among recreational fishers of the role of harvest strategies.
2. Identify types of recreational fishing data and monitoring that provide reliable measures of both the biological and experiential performance of fished populations.
3. Interrogate and extend the FishPath decision support software tool to better characterise and integrate recreational fishing information into harvest strategy development for multi-sector fisheries.
4. Develop guidelines and recommendations for the integration of recreational fishing information into harvest strategies for multi-sector fisheries.
5. Develop draft harvest strategies for key multi-sector fisheries using outcomes from Objectives 1-4.
Report
Authors:
Fowler AM
Chick RC
Bolton P
Folpp H
Harnwell J
Lowry M
Lyle JM
Lynch TP
McIlgorm A
Nichols R
Ochwada-Doyle FA
Pepperell J
Dowling NA.
Report
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2021-12-15
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990.17 KB
2019-021 NSW Recreational Fishing Workshops_FRDC interim report_final.pdf
This interim report provides an update on workshops with recreational fishers, scientists and managers to investigate recreational fishing objectives for three stocks of recreational importance in NSW – Mulloway, Yellowtail Kingfish, and Snapper. The study forms part of a broader research project investigating the integration of recreational fishing into harvest strategies for multi-sector fisheries.
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2019-016
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Estimating the biomass of fish stocks using novel and efficient genetic techniques
This project represents the first detailed study exploring the relationship between eDNA concentrations and the biomass and/or abundance of some economically and ecologically important (primarily freshwater) fish species in Australia. The work was conducted over four-and-a-half-years as part of a...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-161
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
National Social and Economic Survey of Recreational Fishers 2019
The NRFS involved three stages of data collection. An overview of the three stages of data collection and the purpose of each, and a guide summarising which chapters draw on data from each stage of data collection, are provided in the next section. Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 provide a detailed...
ORGANISATION:
University of Canberra
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-095
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Canberra
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-056
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Melbourne
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-055
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Developing a positive cultural attitude towards the capture and release of sharks and rays
This report summarises the outcomes of the Workshop on; prioritisation of species, identification of best-practice capture and handling, design of post-release survival studies, and development of effective communication campaigns, for developing positive behavioural change in recreational fishing...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2018-035
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
SPECIES
A South Australian gulfs and coastal ecosystem model to optimise multi-species fisheries management in a changing environment
Project number:
2018-011
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$218,932.00
Principal Investigator:
Simon D. Goldsworthy
Organisation:
University of Adelaide
Project start/end date:
3 Jun 2019
-
17 Dec 2020
Contact:
FRDC
The SA State Government has made a commitment to reform the Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF) that aims to provide long-term sustainability of key stocks for both recreational and commercial fisheries, and unlock the industries economic potential. The key reforms include a voluntary buy-back scheme targeting the removal of at least 30% of commercial licences and the introduction of new zoning and quota management regulations. The timeframe for the reforms will be determined in consultation with the industry. Details on the implementation strategy have yet to be developed, but will need to be underpinned by extensive stakeholder consultation and backed by research that provides confidence that among the approaches considered, those chosen will best deliver the intent of the reforms.
This project aims to develop an SA Gulfs and Coastal ecosystem model to provide a Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) tool to assess and optimise a range of reform scenarios. The project will link in closely with FRDC 2017/014 (Informing structural reform in the MSF), utilising many of its key outputs, including time series of spatial distribution of catch and effort, social-economic performance, and reform implementation scenarios. This project also will extend the investigation by integrating environmental time-series data to evaluate changes in productivity over time, identified as a potential factor in declining fisheries catches in the GSV ecosystem (FRDC 2013/031). Identifying the causes of productivity loss and its impact on fish production are important to resolve, especially in the context of the MSF reforms. Ultimately, the project aims to provide decision support tools to assess and evaluate the performance of diverse fisheries management strategies, and how these may perform under varying production regimes. Such an approach will provide a platform to evaluate and optimise the effectiveness of management strategies, and help ensure the fishery reforms achieve their key objectives.
1. Develop an SA Gulfs and Coastal Ecosystem model to provide a MSE tool to inform and optimise multi-regional management, quotas for multi-species fisheries and multi-sector harvest strategies
2. Use the model to run scenarios to assess, evaluate and optimise Marine Scalefish Fishery reform options
3. Assess potential production loss issues, and evaluate how different MSF reform options may perform under different future production scenarios
PROJECT NUMBER
•
2015-024
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Managing ecosystem interactions across differing environments: building flexibility and risk assurance into environmental management strategies
Summary
The overarching aim of this research was to provide an improved understanding of the environmental interactions of Atlantic Salmon farming and to provide recommendations to both government and industry on monitoring and management strategies that are appropriate to the level of risk...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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