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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-195
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Industry capability and mapping report and workshop

In 2018 the Australia Seafood Industry established a national peak industry body – Seafood Industry Australia (SIA). SIA’s charter is to manage issues of national significance to the seafood industry. The current functional capability (staff, funding, systems, networks) of the SIA...
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Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
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Community perceptions of fishing: implications for industry image, marketing and sustainability - Secretariat file

Project number: 2001-309.90
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $7,058.78
Principal Investigator: Kylie Dunstan
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 28 Jun 2004 - 30 Jun 2004
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To establish an appropriate advisory group (the Fisheries Social Research Advisory Group may be the appropriate group.
2. To conduct focus groups with selected sub-groups of the Australian public to serve as a basis for developing a structured survey instrument.
3. To develop the survey instrument in discussion with the advisory group, conduct a pilot test of the instrument, and administer it to a statistically representative sample of the Australian adult population (18+).
4. To identify implications of survey findings for industry communication, education and marketing activities (from answers to knowledge, perceptions, attitudes and behavioral questions).
5. To identify implications of survey findings for ESD monitoring and reporting frameworks (behavioral questions in particular).
6. To obtain data on indigenous perceptions of commercial fishing practices and conflicts between traditional and commercial fishing (from purpose designed supplementary survey).
7. In discussions with the advisory group, to develop options and strategies for addressing any negative perceptions of the industry, identifying appropriate actions, agencies to implement actions, and methods for evaluating success of implementing options.
8. To communicate overall survey results to stakeholders in a meaningful and useful form.

RFIDS: implications of climate change for recreational fishers and the recreational fishing industry

Project number: 2011-037
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $90,000.00
Principal Investigator: Colin Creighton AM
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 30 Apr 2011 - 29 Sep 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Climate change is manifesting in marine environments. Additional to climate variability there is documented shifts in ocean currents - temperature, behaviour and spatial impact. Biotic indications eg species changes in abundance and range suggest impacts are at a level greater than for terrestrial ecosystems and uses. Coupled with this is the common property nature of fisheries resources. Management imperatives are already upon Government and all key sectors - conservation, commercial and recreational fishery management and aquaculture.

The first two challenges are to -
a) smartly adapt to biotic changes and variations in abundance
b) foster a more flexible and responsive approach to marine management.

Climate change is a political issue - the public policy issue that has been most incompetently dealt with by Australia's political leaders. Community understanding of the complexities of climate change and how Australia should respond is varied with multiple areas for confusion and misunderstanding. Additionally, those promoting a mitigation response have been alarmist in their predictions - well beyond the science evidence.
With this confusion as to the implications of climate change and options for adaptation and mitigation strategies, informed debate is extremely difficult. The recreational fishing sector is no different to the wider community.

Given the economic and social importance of recreational fishing in Australia, there is a national need and strong regional demand for strategies and adaptation activities and management systems that respond wisely to climate change.

The second two challenges are to:
c) ensure accurate information on climate change information is available and is placed in context with other aspects such as habitat loss and water quality
d) foster knowledge and adaptation strategies from within the recreational fishing sector so that the sector can play its role in advocacy and public policy development.

Objectives

1. Through case studies of vulnerable species in each of the three regions this project will explore and propose activities and strategies such as improved fisheries management measures which could be adopted to assist agencies, recreational fishers and the recreational fishing industry adapt and deal with climate change impacts
2. Explore climate change adaptation responses and move towards regional arrangements that foster a more flexible and responsive approach to recreational fisheries and fisher needs.
3. Identify high priority mitigation opportunities so that the recreational fishing sector can contribute to the global issue of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9752219-9-0
Author: Colin Creighton
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