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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Low cost management regimes for sustainable, small low-value fisheries based on coastal inshore species

This study provides a comprehensive, process-based guidance to developing low-cost management regimes for small-scale, low-value fisheries. The approach outlined is strongly “bottom-up” in that it seeks to identify pragmatic options and provide practical advice that specifically...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

Tactical Research Fund: Providing social science objectives and indicators to compare management options in the Queensland trawl planning process

Project number: 2009-100
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $95,000.00
Principal Investigator: Cathy M. Dichmont
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date: 31 May 2010 - 29 Oct 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Fisheries management has mostly been directed by economic and ecological objectives. With the introduction of the call for triple bottom line assessments of industry and government performance, a need for social objectives has become apparent which has remained largely unaddressed in terms of integration into management plans for specific fisheries.

In addition, consideration of social impacts of different management options are very important for the Queensland trawl fishery. The reason for this is that the fishery ranges from having communities where trawling is the major source of income to the opposite case where trawling is only a minor component of the community activities and income. The fishery also spans almost the whole length of the eastern Queensland coast with a complex multi-species, multi-fleet fishery which is worth about $100M - Queensland's most valuable fishery. Management options need to balance community, economic and biological needs. Any changes to the management of the fishery can substantially change the biological status of stocks, fishery profitability but also equity between fleets and communities.

Queensland DEEDI are presently developing a new draft Plan for comment and input to this is essential and urgent.

There is therefore a need for specific social objectives and associated relevant indicators for Queensland DEEDI to use in the development of management plans and the assessment of them.

Objectives

2. Test and verify applicability of social objectives and indicators using semi-quantitative analyses with stakeholder groups
3. Identify social objective and indicators of relevance to the Queensland trawl fishery

Final report

ISBN: 9780643109223
Author: Catherine Dichmont
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-060
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Healthcheck Phase 2

Sustainability is a broad and complex concept, and consideration of the diverse suite of factors involved in social, economic, ecological and governance arrangements is needed to create truly sustainable food production industries. Australian fisheries encompasses a much broader range of issues than...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-729
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Tackling microbial related issues in cultured shellfish via integrated molecular and water chemistry approaches

Aquacultured species such as oysters and abalone live their entire lifecycle in seawater, and co-exist with a wide range of innocuous, pathogenic and beneficial microorganisms. Some microbes cause diseases resulting in significant losses for the farms. This study set out to provide shellfish...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 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
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-237
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of software for use in multi-frequency acoustic biomass assessments and ecological studies

The development of the ECHO software has enabled the collection and analysis of large multifrequency acoustic data sets. The data can now be processed in a timely manner (via overlays) to quality assure and interpret underlying acoustic characteristics in the signals. From these analyses we can...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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