PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-169
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
SPECIES
249 results
Design aspects of well-functioning ITQ markets
Project number:
2019-165
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$84,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Ingrid van Putten
Organisation:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date:
1 Aug 2021
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30 Dec 2022
Contact:
FRDC
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-124
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Shared science and Indigenous knowledge to support fisheries capacity building in Torres Strait
This report presents the results of a collaborative science capacity building project involving CSIRO researchers and Torres Strait Islander Fishing Industry representatives. Project participants worked together in the development and delivery of science capacity building programs tailored to each...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-010
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Revisiting biological parameters and information used in the assessment of Commonwealth fisheries: a reality check and work plan for future proofing
The project re-assesses key biological parameters for south-eastern Australian fish stock.
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-194
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Forecasting spatial distribution of Southern Bluefin Tuna habitat in the Great Australian Bight – updating and improving habitat and forecast models
This project was a collaboration between CSIRO, the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association (ASBTIA) and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The project aim was to update work done as part of FRDC Project 2012/239 “Forecasting spatial distribution of Southern Bluefin Tuna...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
SPECIES
Blue carbon and the Australian seafood industry: workshop
Project number:
2018-060
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$50,803.00
Principal Investigator:
Mathew Vanderklift
Organisation:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date:
30 Jun 2018
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30 Oct 2018
Contact:
FRDC
The Australian seafood industry aspires to continue improving its sustainability in many areas, including reducing its carbon emissions and ultimately achieving carbon neutrality. The 2017 National Seafood Industry Leaders called for the industry to strive to become carbon neutral by 2030. There are many aspects to this, such as improving fuel efficiency and evaluating land transport options, but some emissions are inevitable. To offset these emissions, the seafood industry might choose to investigate carbon markets. Investments in blue carbon could also provide added value to the industry, say, through better fish nurseries, or through the social benefits of being seen to proactively nurture the ecosystems that support them. However, the mechanisms to allow the seafood industry to pursue this are poorly developed. Impediments include the paucity of blue carbon opportunities in existing regulatory markets, and uncertainty about the most appropriate financial mechanisms for blue carbon investment.
The industry would benefit from a clear guide that outlines the current (and likely future) opportunities, the risks, a realistic assessment of the benefits, and a set of options for potential investors to pursue. To facilitate this, we will hold a meeting of key seafood industry stakeholders: at this workshop we will inform stakeholders about the current state of knowledge and opportunities, ask the extent to which the industry aspires to be carbon neutral, and whether blue carbon investments are perceived to be relevant. We will identify the major impediments to the industry achieving its desired goals, and plan concrete actions that can be taken to achieve them. These will be compiled into a plan to inform the FRDC on what actions to invest in, and how much investment would be needed.
1. Inform and understand aspirations of the Australian seafood industry with respect to carbon neutrality
2. Map the aspirations against current opportunities in Australia and overseas
3. Identify actions that can be taken by the seafood industry and the FRDC that will help move the industry towards meeting aspirations
4. Synthesise 1-3 into a plan that also identifies enablers and constraints that the industry needs to be aware of, and develop recommendations about the best steps
Final report
ISBN:
978-1-4863-1196-5
Authors:
Mat Vanderklift
Andy Steven
Raymundo Marcos-Martinez
Daniel Gorman
Final Report
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2019-01-17
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1.91 MB
2018-060-DLD.pdf
Several stakeholders within the Australian seafood industry have demonstrated strong leadership
by developing carbon neutral business practices. In 2017, participants in the National Seafood
Industry Leadership Program challenged the industry to become carbon neutral by 2030. In
response, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) hosted a workshop that invited key
stakeholders and thought leaders from industry, government and nongovernmental organisations
to discuss the overall attitudes of the Australian seafood industry to the concept of carbon
neutrality, and to gauge aspirations for investment in coastal “blue” carbon offsets as a way of
achieving carbon neutrality
Blue carbon offsets are not yet available in Australia, including (but not limited to) Australia’s
Emissions Reduction Fund, but voluntary market opportunities exist overseas. Several Australian
businesses are seeking to promote efforts to accelerate their development in Australia. Developing
partnerships between the seafood industry and like-minded businesses, to address key
uncertainties and knowledge gaps (such as uncertainty over tenure, lack of reliable demonstration
sites, absence of key data such as carbon accumulation rates) is likely to be a fruitful option for
maximising the future blue carbon opportunities for the seafood industry
Cumulative impacts across fisheries in Australia's marine environment
Project number:
2018-020
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$391,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Beth Fulton
Organisation:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date:
17 Mar 2019
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29 Nov 2020
Contact:
FRDC
The need for cumulative impact assessment (CIA) is increasingly being recognized. The development process for Australia's Harvest and Bycatch Policies, and their associated guidelines have reinforced the need for assessment of cumulative impacts, and the EPBC Act has also explicitly required consideration of cumulative impacts.
Where multiple activities occur or are planned, an understanding of their combined effects on the environment is necessary to address policy requirements and achieve sustainability. The concept of cumulative impact assessment is not new – indeed cumulative assessment has been recognized for many years, and a range of methods have been proposed around the globe. However, no methodology for undertaking cumulative assessments has been accepted nationally or globally. In addition to considering the impacts across all fishing sectors (commercial, recreational, indigenous, as required by recent changes to the Fisheries Administration Act 1991) and all fisheries, there is also an increasing need to consider other users of marine resources and coastal waters (e.g. renewable energy, shipping etc), especially where space crowding may be an issue.
Target species stock assessments typically consider the species of interest as well as other sources of fishing mortality (e.g. discards), but they do not usually consider their effects on other fisheries sectors or the effects of other sectors on the focal fishery. CIA methods therefore need to consider interactive and indirect effects. To date, interactive effects are often viewed as additive (simple linear addition of one impact to another) with little consideration given to synergistic, antagonistic or non-linear effects. While the ERAEF toolbox used for assessment of bycatch and protected species has some potential options for cumulative impacts (e.g. SAFE method), at this stage they are insufficient for moving to the scales and complexities across multiple fishing sectors and fisheries.
Thus, sustainable fisheries management requires new approaches that consider all sectors and all fisheries and how they impact the environment. Such CIAs will be challenging given that empirical data are often lacking - a dedicated research effort is needed.
1. Undertake a two part review. This first part being to review existing cumulative impacts literature on methods applied elsewhere in the world, to produce design principles for a scalable cumulative impacts approach
and a synthesis of current benchmark methods and gaps in methods that must be filled to deliver Australian needs. And the second part being a global ERA review to identify cumulative impacts seen in other fisheries, with the specific focus of this review as specified by the AFMA led ERA/ERM working group – including looking: (i) at the assessment methods used elsewhere
(ii) their information needs and context
(iii) the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches
(iv) synergies and efficiencies that can be adopted
and (v) recommend cost-effect ERA/ERM integration of additional methods that have been found to be appropriate given an AFMA context.
2. Characterise cumulative issues complicating cumulative impact assessments and, via a methods scan, deliver a list of options for addressing these issues
3. Develop a cumulative impacts framework that structures the sequence of analyses done for each assessment based on the characteristics of the sectors and ecological components involved– target, bycatch and protected species, and habitats and ecological communities
4. Perform an Australia-wide cumulative impacts assessment, with fishery-specific results, for (i) commonwealth fisheries across ecological components, (ii) indigenous and recreational sectors that interact with commonwealth fisheries for these components and (iii) and state and recreational fisheries where they overlap with Commonwealth fisheries.
Final report
Authors:
E.A. Fulton
Piers Dunstan
Rowan Treblico
Final Report
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6.18 MB
2018-020-DLD.pdf
The world is changing more rapidly than any one individual can track. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (1999) (EPBC Act) requires for all human activities, such as fisheries, to be sustainable not only in isolation but in combination with other anthropogenic activities and the general state of the environment. It is difficult for fishery managers and operators to comply with this requirement without appropriate assessment methods. In addition, trying to understand the complete state of an ecosystem and all its interacting parts is a substantial and challenging task, especially for a nation with national waters as large and diverse as Australia’s.
In response researchers from the CSIRO and the University of Adelaide set about reviewing existing tools used to undertake Ecological Risk Assessments (ERAs) or Cumulative Effects Assessments (CEAs). This information then formed the basis for developing a new Cumulative Effects Assessment framework which was applied to 409 species around Australia to understand what the cumulative effects of fisheries are on Australia’s marine systems. This understanding and the recommendations made around strengthening existing assessment methods used by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and other fisheries regulatory agencies will place Australia in a better place to ensure it is not only meeting regulatory requirements, but supporting sustainable industries and helping to coordinate across government agencies to safeguard healthy marine ecosystems into Australia’s future.
PROJECT NUMBER
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2018-017
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Demand Conditions and Dynamics in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery: Empirical Investigation
This final report, a collaboration between economists from CSIRO, CQU and ABARES, is the first detailed analysis of the interrelationship between fish prices on the Sydney and Melbourne fish markets. In addition, the study derived empirical estimates of the own and cross-price flexibilities for the...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Storm Bay Biogeochemical Modelling & Information System Supporting sustainable aquaculture expansion in Tasmania
This project delivers a hindcast and near real time Storm Bay Modelling and Information System that is fit for the purpose of simulating water quality and characterising nutrients in Storm Bay from ocean currents, sediment resuspension, river and anthropogenic (including fish farm) inputs. The...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
SPECIES
PROJECT NUMBER
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2017-214
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Comparative evaluation of Integrated Coastal Marine Management in Australia - Workshop
The need for Integrated Management (IM) of diverse marine activities is increasing, but there has been no agreed IM framework. In 2017 and 2018, a team of researchers collaborated to develop a framework for implementation and a ‘lens’ for evaluation of IM....
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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