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Ex-post benefit-cost evaluation of R&D projects

Project number: 1993-230
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $100,000.00
Principal Investigator: Padma Lal
Organisation: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1994 - 9 Nov 1995
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To undertake an Ex-poste cost benefit analysis of selected FRDC projects

Final report

ISBN: 0 642 23533 3
Author: Padma Lal
Final Report • 1995-11-20 • 7.08 MB
1993-230-DLD.pdf

Summary

Increasing demands on public funds have led to calls from governments and industry for greater accountability in research expenditures and hence a need for a systematic evaluation of the benefits from research.

The underlying rationale for government involve­ment in supporting fisheries research and develop­ment has been the presence of 'market failure' in research investment. That is, because individuals or private companies may not be able to gain most of the benefits of a successful research outcome, they will underinvest in research and development relative to the level that would maximise the net benefits to society.

A major objective in this study is to demonstrate the types and possible magnitudes of economic benefits that have been generated from selected research projects funded by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation ( or its predecessor the Fishing Industry Research and Development Council) over the past decade.

Another objective is to provide feedback on the process of evaluating the benefits and costs of fish­eries research and development after the findings of the research have been implemented.

Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-246
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics 2015

Outcomes achieved to date: A reliable time series of economic data about Australia’s fishing and aquaculture industries provided to ensure well informed investment, management and policy decisions by governments, the fishing industry and the public in general. Accurate information...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-008
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of seal fishery interactions in the South East Trawl Fishery (SETF) and the development of fishing practices and seal exclusion devices (SEDs) in the winter blue grenadier fishery to mitigate seal bycatch by SETF trawlers

Introducing a Code of Fishing Practice aimed at avoiding seals appeared to halve the incidence of seal bycatch in this fishery. In SED trials, the problems of fish-loss via the SED escape hatch and net blockage via the SED grid were solved by changes in SED design. Although the effectiveness of most...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-060
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Byproduct: Catch, economics and co-occurrence in Australias longline fisheries

The longline sector of the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (ETBF) and the Southern and Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery (SWTBF) target four main species and incidentally take over 80 other species as “bycatch”. Significant amounts of these species are often retained for sale, and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Adoption

Determination of Australian fisheries statistics 1994-95 to 1996-97

Project number: 1994-146
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $120,000.00
Principal Investigator: David Campbell
Organisation: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
Project start/end date: 29 May 1995 - 30 Jun 1998
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To develop and maintain a data base of production, value and trade statistics for the Australian fishing industry including aquaculture

Final report

Author: Perry Smith
Final Report • 1996-12-24 • 355.63 KB
1994-146-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was undertaken to maintain and develop the collection of industry production, value of production and trade data. These are the only collated, published source of information on commercial industry catches and are used for a wide range of purposes , including determination of Commonwealth allocations for fisheries research funding, industry levies and for addressing a wide range of the information needs of both Government and industry.

Since the project's commencement in 1995 there has been an increased focus on developing the statistics to better meet the information needs of all users. In February 1997, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation convened the Australian Fisheries Economic Statistics Workshop in Canberra to review the best means of addressing these needs. At this Workshop there was strong support for the approaches adopted in Australian Fisheries Statistics and the form in which it was published. However, there was agreement on the need to address a number of areas where statistics were either not available or were not of the robustness required.

Project products

Report • 1997-01-07 • 2.35 MB
1994-146-PDT.pdf

Summary

To meet the needs of the fishing industry and fisheries managers, policy makers and researchers, ABARE has been publishing detailed production and trade data in Australian Fisheries Statistics since 1991. The estimates of the gross value of production provided in this report are used, for example, to determine Commonwealth, state and territory fisheries research funding arrangements each year.

This publication, the sixth in the series, contains a comprehensive set of data on the volume and value of production from Commonwealth and state fisheries, and the volume and value of Australian fisheries trade, by destination, source and product, for the three years to 1995-96. The report also contains a profile of Commonwealth and state fisheries for 1995-96.

Australian Fisheries Statistics can be used in conjunction with ABARE's major annual statistical bulletin, Australian Commodity Statistics, which provides ahistorical series of production and trade statistics for fisheries and a range of other commodities, and ABARE's quarterly journal, Australian Commodities, in which forecasts for major fisheries commodities are updated throughout the year. Together these three publications provide a comprehensive account of historical trends in, and the outlook for, Australian fisheries. Detailed analysis of selected fisheries is also provided in the annual Australian Fisheries Surveys Report.

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