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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-158
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implementation of the National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey

A national survey of recreational and indigenous fishing was conducted in Australia during 2000-01. The survey was a joint initiative of Commonwealth and State governments. Grants from the Natural Heritage Trust, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, State and Territory fisheries agencies...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: facilitating the establishment of the Aquatic Animal Health Consultative Committee (AAHCC) as the primary industry-government interface for aquatic animal health issues in Australia

Project number: 2002-600
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $18,372.75
Principal Investigator: Mark S. Crane
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 26 Jun 2002 - 31 Oct 2005
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The report (Attachment 2 ) of the Working Group to review FHMC was considered by FHMC at its meeting on 29 November 2001. FHMC agreed with the Working Group’s recommendation to reconstitute FHMC into a new body, named the Aquatic Animal Health Consultative Committee (AAHCC). Subsequently, a 2-page summary document was prepared, with the suggested Terms of Reference for the new AAHCC, its membership, modus operandi, and funding arrangements (Attachment 3 ). FHMC also suggested that a business plan for AAHCC be developed, which would, inter alia, incorporate the FHMC-endorsed plan for the Australian Aquatic Animal Health Information System (AAAHIS) (Attachment 4 ). FHMC agreed that the 2-page summary document on the suggested AAHCC needed to be widely circulated to stakeholders, accompanied by an AAHCC business plan, by the FHMC Working Group Report, and by the revised AAAHIS Business/Operational Plan. This consultation process is planned for the second and third quarter 2002 (see Attachment 5 for a flow-chart). Following endorsement by stakeholders, the AAHCC business plan is to be presented to the Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC) for endorsement at their in-session meeting in September 2002.
The project application seeks funding for the consultancy to develop the draft AAHCC business plan and support the subsequent stakeholder consultation process.

Objectives

1. To prepare a draft business plan for the suggested Aquatic Animal Health Consultative Committee.
2. To facilitate the stakeholder consultation process on the ‘AAHCC package’ including the draft business plan for AAHCC and the AAAHIS business plan.
3. To finalise the ‘AAHCC package’ including the final business plan for AAHCC and the AAAHIS business plan, and submit it to the Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC) and key industry stakeholders for endorsement.
4. To facilitate the establishment of AAHCC.

Final report

ISBN: 0-9752347-1-4
Author: Eva-Maria Bernoth
Final Report • 2004-04-16 • 710.99 KB
2002-600-DLD.pdf

Summary

The development and implementation of AQUAPLAN, Australia’s National Strategic Plan for Aquatic Animal Health 1998-2003, was overseen by an interim joint industry/government committee, the Fish Health Management Committee (FHMC). In November 2001, a working group established to review FHMC found that FHMC had fulfilled its terms of references, and that a new body, the Aquatic Animal Health Consultative Committee (AAHCC) should be formed. FHMC agreed with the working group’s recommendations and suggested that a business plan for AAHCC be developed, which would, amongst others, incorporate the FHMC-endorsed plan for the Australian Aquatic Animal Health Information System (AAAHIS). Following a stakeholder consultation process, the AAHCC business plan was to be presented to the Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC) for endorsement at their in-session meeting in September 2002.

The aim of this project was to support a consultancy to develop the draft AAHCC business plan and to support the subsequent stakeholder consultation process.

Keywords: aquatic animal health; disease; aquaculture; consultation; policy development

Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-169
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a national recreational and traditional fishing survey

The National Recreational and Indigenous Fishing Survey (National Survey) is a joint initiative of the Commonwealth and State/Territory Governments to obtain fisheries statistics to support the management of non-commercial fishing in Australia. The National Survey has been progressively...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Environment
Industry

Sonar operators' course

Project number: 1973-001
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1974 - 31 Dec 1974
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Provide training in principals & operations of echo sounding, netsondes & sonar
interpret echograms & sonargrams
application & operation of radar.
2. Train govt & industry personnel in efficiency use of sonar to pass to commercial fishermen & fisheries research officers

Tactical Research Fund: Indigenous turtle and dugong conservation comic

Project number: 2008-307
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $62,010.00
Principal Investigator: Paul Pak Poy
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 28 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2009
Contact:
FRDC

Need

This is project will develop a “Indigenous Turtle and Dugong Conservation Comic” project for the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry that increases the understanding of Indigenous dugong and turtle fishermen about species sustainability and the population impacts if extraction continues at current levels.

The Torres Strait region is characterised by a complex marine ecosystem, which supports globally significant populations of dugong and marine turtles. Torres Strait is the most important dugong habitat in the world and the region has six of the seven species of marine turtles.

Within Torres Strait there are nineteen Indigenous communities distributed across seventeen geographically remote islands stretching to the south-western coast of Papua New Guinea and the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula. These communities are very diverse in terms of their socio-economic, cultural and political characteristics. Each community also has differing priorites, needs and concerns in relation to local issues affecting turtle and dugong.

Story telling is the basis for Indigenous communication. Families prefer messages as stories because they resonate with people's day to day experience and have been the cornerstone of passing on culture and values. Many organisations now understand the value of this form of communication. This project, to develop a series of educational comic books in collaboration with Island youth, is needed to develop grassroots knowledge of conservation and fisheries management, and committment to sustainable practices for harvest of dugong and turtle.

This knowledge and committment is necessary to ensure young Indigenosu school students understand the environemental impacts of traditional harvest of marine turtle and duging, and in turn to ensure the sustainability of traditional hunting practice.

Objectives

1. To design, produce and distribute a comic book that will raise awareness for sustainable dugong and turtle harvest among the children of the Torres Strait, their families, and dugong and turtle fishers
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