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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-046
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Reducing uncertainty in the assessment of the Australian spanner crab fishery

Spanner crabs (Ranina ranina) represent a valuable single-species fishery in Queensland. Although a transparent and effective assessment process was developed some years ago for setting the commercial total allowable catch (TAC), additional information was needed to reduce some of the uncertainty in...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)

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

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

Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-037
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sustaining productivity of tropical red snappers using new monitoring and reference points

Australia’s tropical snapper fisheries harvest six main Lutjanid species. They are the Crimson, Saddletail, and Goldband snappers, Red Emperor, Golden snapper and Mangrove Jack. These fish live up to 40 years of age, weigh up to five to ten kilograms and are highly valued for commercial...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-205
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The effect of barramundi Nodavirus on important freshwater fishes

This project has confirmed the knowledge that management of barramundi translocations outside their natural range requires fisheries authorities take into account the risk that barramundi nodavirus may lethally infect native freshwater fishes. The project has shown barramundi nodavirus can...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-242
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Commercialising the production of Cobia in Australia

This project is a collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and the Cobia aquaculture sector, predominantly Pacific Reef Fisheries (PRF). It was undertaken to consolidate the aquaculture in Australia of Cobia, a species offering considerable potential as a...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
SPECIES
People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1990-004
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Pilot evaluation of methodology for assessment of the eastern king prawn fishery

The fishery for eastern king prawns is based on a major penaeid prawn resource shared between New South Wales and Queensland. Because the species is migratory and the resource shared between two states, the fishery offers some unique research and management challenges. The objectives of this...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1981-046
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of Queensland inshore net fisheries

Most of the world’s marine fish harvest still comes from coastal waters despite the rapid development of distant water fishing fleets (McHugh, 1967). Fish yields from estuaries and lagoons are generally high, due to factors including shallowness, inflow of nutrients from rivers, and the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
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