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Inland saline aquaculture - past progress, new opportunities and a synthesis of available knowledge

Project number: 2022-089
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $75,489.00
Principal Investigator: Geoff L. Allan
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 9 Mar 2023 - 29 Nov 2023
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Need

Translation of research into commercial development is rarely straightforward. In the case of inland saline aquaculture, the research to overcome technical constraints has led to significant commercial development overseas. However, despite significant investment in the 2000s, commercial development in Australia has been slow. This may be due to environmental factors, policy barriers, social and economic conditions at the time. Some of these possible constraints have completely changed in the last two decades and there is currently new interest in inland saline aquaculture. This project is required to help ensue potential investors are armed with as much information as possible. What did previous research into inland saline aquaculture find? What prevented commercial development in Australia and what led to development overseas? What are the new opportunities and how can they be supported?

Objectives

1. To collate existing documents and publications documenting research, policy, practical farming methods and opportunities for inland saline aquaculture over the last twenty years.
2. To examine commercial developments and impacts from previous research.
3. To identify new opportunities
4. To recommend ways these opportunities might be further explored and captured.

Final report

Author: Geoff Allan and Stewart Fielder
Final Report • 12.40 MB
2022-089-DLD.pdf

Summary

The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) Fisheries, other state governments, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation ( FRDC), the Australian Government (then DAFF) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) made a major contribution to research and coordination to identify and evaluate opportunities for inland  saline aquaculture in Australia (and overseas) in the early 2000s. Research has been translated into significant industry development in some areas (e.g. India) but commercial progress in Australia has been slow. 

Unfortunately, with time, much of the collective research is difficult to access especially for prospective farmers and investors. New development will stand a better chance if fully informed of past progress. New technical challenges will need to be addressed. This project sought to address the following objectives: 
  1. Collate existing documents and publications documenting research, policy, practical farming 
    methods and opportunities for inland saline aquaculture over the last twenty years. 
  2. Examine commercial developments and impacts from previous research.
  3. Identify new opportunities.
  4. Recommend ways these opportunities might be further explored and captured.
This was a desktop project complimented by a special Inland Saline Aquaculture session which was conducted as part of the World Aquaculture Society Conference in Darwin, May/June 2023. 
Experts with a strong history in inland saline aquaculture research from NSW, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia were invited as well as two international experts, from India and the USA. Invited experts were asked to give presentations summarising past progress, including commercial developments, challenges and future opportunities.

Project products

Final Report • 2024-02-05 • 12.40 MB
2022-089-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project sought to address the following objectives:

1.   Collate existing documents and publications documenting research, policy, practical farming methods and opportunities for inland saline aquaculture over the last twenty years.

2.   Examine commercial developments and impacts from previous research.

3.   Identify new opportunities.

4.   Recommend ways these opportunities might be further explored and captured.

This was a desktop project complimented by a special Inland Saline Aquaculture session which was conducted as part of the World Aquaculture Society Conference in Darwin, May/June 2023.  Experts with a strong history in inland saline aquaculture research from NSW, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia were invited as well as two international experts, from India and the USA.  Invited experts were asked to give presentations summarising past progress, including commercial developments, challenges and future opportunities. 

People
Environment

Review of national guidelines to develop fishery harvest strategies

Project number: 2021-135
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $443,632.00
Principal Investigator: Sean R. Sloan
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 28 May 2023 - 29 Jun 2024
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Need

The current National Guidelines were developed through the FRDC (Project 2010/061) with recognition of the need for a coordinated, nationally consistent approach to establishing harvest strategies for Australian fisheries. At this time, the Commonwealth Harvest Strategy Policy and Guidelines (2007, now updated) provided a foundation for harvest strategy development in Commonwealth managed fisheries, however implementation of the key elements of harvest strategies (defined objectives, indicators, assessments, reference points, trigger points and decision rules) varied across jurisdictions, and gaps remained for data limited fisheries.
Similar to the proposed project, the AFMF and FRDC recognised that support for development of harvest strategies could be improved through development of the National Guidelines that focused on less developed areas of harvest strategy policy, including cross-jurisdictional and recreational management arrangements, and incorporating quadruple bottom line (ecological, social, cultural and economic) analysis into fisheries decision making.
As harvest strategy policy and incorporation of quadruple bottom line ecologically sustainable development (ESD) principles have increased as management priorities, harvest strategies have sought to incorporate increasingly challenging issues, in many cases continuing to use disparate approaches between jurisdictions that arguably hold the same objectives and responsibilities, as well as potentially competing interests.
In many cases, harvest strategy policy and development has been held back from achieving quadruple bottom line objectives due to a lack of consistency in the outlook and approach between jurisdictions, and available guidance for dealing with the complexities associated with multi-species, multi-sector or multi-jurisdictional issues. With significant developments occurring around traditional fishing and management, progressing the inclusion of cultural fishing specific objectives is also required.
In addition, the review provides opportunity to address broader issues including the relationship and function of harvest strategies in association with shared access with competing users, cultural interests, ecological issues (e.g. habitat degradation, pollution and climate change), and marine conservation areas, as well as options, incentives and trade-offs for improving data, monitoring and assessment in data poor fisheries or sectors.
The proposed review will ensure the National Guidelines remain a prominent, independent and contemporary guide for fisheries jurisdictions, managers, researchers, fishers and stakeholders in supporting the review of harvest strategy policy frameworks and the development of harvest strategies that in many cases seek to resolve complex issues and balance competing interests.
To achieve this, the proposed project aims to:
1. Review and update the National Guidelines to Develop Fishery Harvest Strategies to ensure the National Guidelines are consistent with current harvest strategy utilisation, address contemporary fisheries challenges and the most up to date information available;
2. Take stock of harvest strategies in Australia (by jurisdiction) and internationally, including how many fisheries now have operational harvest strategies adopted and those under development; and
3. Produce a report with the updated National Guidelines coupled with a detailed communication plan and associated materials to promote and communicate the outcome of the review with all stakeholders.

Objectives

1. To review and update the National Guidelines to Develop Fishery Harvest Strategies (2014) to ensure the National Guidelines are consistent with current harvest strategy utilisation and reflect the most up to date information available
2. To take stock of harvest strategies in Australia and internationally (by jurisdiction) including how many fisheries now have operational harvest strategies adopted and those under development
3. To produce a report with the updated National Guidelines coupled with a detailed communication plan to promote the outcome of the review
Environment
Industry
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1976-018
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Ballast water investigations

Ships' ballast water was sampled on 28 occasions in four ports between November, 1976, and October, 1978. A 100.,u plankton net was hand hauled vertically 5 times in each tank. Eight non indigenous species were obtained: 6 copepods, 1 mysid and 1 amphipod. A further 14 species of...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-029
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Studies of the growth and mortality of school prawns

Information about growth and mortality are important in the management of resources because these provide us with an understanding about the productivity of the target population. Estimates are used to assess the impact of fishing upon the target population and the effectiveness of various scenarios...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-729
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: Promoting Marine Finfish Aquaculture in NSW

Huon Aquaculture and NSW DPI are working together to establish NSW’s first Yellowtail Kingfish (YTK) farm. Using a recently approved Marine Aquaculture Research Lease (MARL) and an existing farm site off Port Stephens, NSW, we have begun to establish NSW largest fish production facility, with...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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