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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-014
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Estimating the impacts of management changes on bycatch reduction and sustainability of high-risk bycatch species in the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery

Keywords: Discards, elasmobranchs, post-trawl survival, Aptychotrema rostrata, Trygonoptera testacea, turtle excluder device, bycatch reduction device, TEDs, BRDs, ecological risk assessment, ERA Executive Summary: Researchers from the Queensland Government’s Department of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Rac Qld
Post Harvest
Mortality
Modelling
Fishing Gear
SPECIES
Shovelnose Rays
Rays
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-144
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fisheries biology and interaction in the northern Australian small mackerel fishery

The small mackerels comprising school mackerel (Scomberomorus queenslandicus), spotted mackerel (S. munroi) and grey mackerel (S. semifasciatus) are important and valued species to recreational and commercial fishers in northern Australia. Prior to this project very little was known about the basic...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Workforce
Tagging
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Mortality
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-022
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A study of seagrass prawn nursery grounds and juvenile prawn populations in north Queensland

Seagrasses are of immense ecological importance in marine ecosystems. Primary production rates for seagrass beds are amongst the highest recorded for marine and terrestrial systems. They have a well documented role as animal habitat, nursery grounds, and as substrate stabilizers. The proximity of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Husbandry
Habitat
Fisheries Management
Industry
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-129
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Stock assessment review workshop

A three day stock assessment course was presented by Dr Malcolm Haddon of the Australian Maritime College and Dr James Scandol of the Quantitative Training Unit for Fisheries. Techniques such as biomass dynamic and age based modelling were covered. Thereafter, a Stock Assessment Review Workshop,...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Mortality
Fisheries Management
Industry
Environment
Environment

QFISH Foresight Project - a strategic planning and futuring project designed to create a strong coordinated commitment by all stakeholders to an agreed vision of the fisheries of the future

Project number: 1999-354
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $162,456.88
Principal Investigator: Col Bishop
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 1999 - 29 Sep 2006
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
Innovation
Habitat

Need

At the third meeting of the Queensland Fishing Industry Development Council (FIDC) on 26 May 1998 it was agreed that greater attention should be given to the development of a strategy to develop the industry for the benefit of all stakeholders through the innovative Foresighting process. This process is widely accepted across the world for many industry sectors. The value of Foresighting was proven through its successful application in the whole of the New Zealand Government.

This has been further highlighted by the recent FRDC funded Fisheries Habitat Review.

FIDC has agreed that the resources of R&D and management work are not currently directed towards an optimised cross sectoral strategy and accordingly this project is seen as being of the highest priority.

The preliminary successes of the Fisheries staff in supporting Foresighting have resulted in an invitation to help drive the process for the whole of QDPI.

This project addresses several QFIRAC priority areas, but is largely focused on industry development, which is demonstrated in Objectives 3 and 7:

Objective 3 this project entails relevant, focused research on specific stock assessment and evaluations of stakeholder impacts on the resource, and,
Objective 7 the methodology of this project offers significant cross-sectoral conflict resolution as all stakeholders are enrolled to contribute to the future building process.

Objectives

1. To promote cultural change in the fishing industry through scenario planning
2. To provide an holistic framework for the development of the fishing industry in Qld including all stakeholders eg commercial, recreational, indigenous, charter boat operators, aquaculture, service providers and the community at large.
3. Promoting both ecological and economic sustainable development through cooperative planning.

Final report

Author: C. Bishop and P. Appleton
Final Report • 2006-09-15 • 3.43 MB
1999-354-DLD.pdf

Summary

The establishment in 1997of the Fishing Industry Development Council (FIDC), a peak fishing advisory body, set the scene for an examination of where Queensland’s fisheries and the fishing industry sectors were heading in the longer term. 

The FIDC is a high level consultative forum reporting directly to the Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries.   It comprises an independent Chair, and representatives from each of the commercial catching sector, marketing, recreational interests, charter fishing, environmental non-government organizations, indigenous peoples, aquaculture and State and Commonwealth agencies (collectively called the fishing sector interests).

By early 1998 discussions within the FIDC were initiated around the concept of “foresighting” which provides a framework for thinking about the future that you want to build.  The framework includes the use and analysis of a range of scenarios or possible futures and then consultations within sectors and across different sectors or fishing interests, to develop a picture of the preferred future for the fishing industry at some point into the future, for example, 2010.  The concept of foresighting had been used with considerable success in New Zealand in the fishing industry, rural industries and sectors within the New Zealand Government.  

A foresighting project commenced in 1998 as a pilot study, funded by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to introduce foresighting techniques into the fishing industry.  The success of this pilot stage of the study prompted the FIDC and DPI to approach the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) in 1999 to obtain funds for a more comprehensive project based on the strategies and techniques of the foresighting paradigm.

Keywords: foresighting, pathways, scenario building, fishing interest groups, fisheries, fishing industry, cooperation, preferred futures, cultural change, investment

Effects of Trawling Subprogram: commercialisation of bycatch reduction strategies and devices in northern Australian prawn trawl fisheries

Project number: 1996-254
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $986,253.71
Principal Investigator: Julie B. Robins
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 8 Aug 1996 - 30 Jun 2001
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Wild Catch
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
Communications
Bycatch

Objectives

1. Inform and consult commercial trawl fishers about ways and means of reducing the catch of non-target organisms in their trawl nets.
2. Further develop promising by-catch reduction devices and other by-catch reduction strategies under commercial conditions.
3. Document, accumulate and publish performance data of turtle excluder devices and by-catch reduction gears suitable for the commercial fishing industry of the Queensland East Coast, the Torres Strait, the Northern Prawn Fishery, and other interested parties.
4. Encourage and promote the use of by-catch reduction devices by commercial trawl operators.

Final report

ISBN: 0-7345-0096-3
Final Report • 2000-08-28 • 4.15 MB
1996-254-DLD.pdf
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