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El Nemo National Fishing and Aquaculture Climate Change RD&E Coordination Program - Aquatic Biodiversity and Resources

Project number: 2009-074
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $453,165.00
Principal Investigator: Colin Creighton AM
Organisation: Colin Creighton
Project start/end date: 24 Jan 2010 - 30 Dec 2013
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The 4 key needs are:

1 - the need to ensure multiple investors - FRDC, DCC and States plus possibly DAFF all achieve the outputs and outcomes they seek from pooled investment while where possible also value adding on their core investment such as through inkind research contributions or other partnership opportunities. Importantly to ensure that the investment activity is collaborative in nature and focuses on the needs of end-users of the research outputs.

2 - the need to translate Climate Adaptation and Mitigation, somewhat long term and challenging policy concepts into meaningful and useful research outputs that Australia's fishing industry can adopt as part of their industry development and management planning [industry here is taken in its broadest sense to include commercial, recreational, indigenous and conservation outcomes]

3 - the need to select and then project manage to successful completion a key and agenda setting combination of research, communication and knowledge exchange activities

4 - the need to conceptually develop an integrated package of activities that while meaningful and useful as outputs in themselves also combine and synergise to produce higher level Program outcomes far greater in benefit to Australia's fishing industry than the component parts

Objectives

1. Program - to ensure the combined investment delivers outcomes for climate adaptation responses far greater than the individual projects
2. Investment - to facilitate wise and if possible additional investment additional to the initial investors of FRDC, DCC and DPI Vic with an outcome of increased scope and coverage in the research program.
3. Technical - to foster astute investment, selecting the projects of greatest potential benefit for Program outcomes while simultaneously ensuring a cohort of leading science practioners as motivated advocates.
4. Program Oversight - to provide a formal vehicle for Investor participation and direction in Program design, delivery and findings.
5. Communication - to foster planned and strategic communication activities about the program and its findings.
6. Adoption - to foster and share knowledge on the climate change imperatives.
7. Coordination - to ensure accountability and competent logistical support in the conduct of all program activities.

Fostering strategic fisheries management responses to Australia's changing climate

Project number: 2009-074.40
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $81,800.00
Principal Investigator: Colin Creighton AM
Organisation: Colin Creighton
Project start/end date: 15 Jan 2014 - 31 Oct 2014
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Provide the information to foster an improved understanding of the implications of climate change on fisheries stocks, fishing effort and marine biodiversity, thereby providing input into Australian and state based fisheries management and policy.
2. Building on the climate adaptation imperatives and carbon sequestration opportunities of inshore habitat and the opportunities of “Direct Action”, foster works and activities that will ensure increased inshore productivity for professional, recreational and indigenous fishers.
3. Articulate the benefits of resourcing R&D for the key knowledge gaps across climate adaptation, carbon sequestration and inshore fisheries habitat and seek for FRDC co-investment partnership arrangements with key Australian Government agencies.
4. Review and evaluate to ensure a high standard of all draft milestone and draft final reports, remaining projects.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9923366-2-2
Author: Colin Creighton
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Revitalising estuaries and wetlands for carbon sequestration, biodiversity, fisheries and the community

This project puts forward the proposal that stakeholders and government should concentrate on repair of the more developed coastal catchments around Australia where major investment and Australian Government leadership is required to re‐establish estuary productivity. It seeks to deliver multiple...
ORGANISATION:
Colin Creighton
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