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People
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-512
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Review of structural and funding options for a peak body for the Queensland seafood industry

Queensland’s commercial fisheries produce about $250 million of seafood annually, and contribute more than 10% of Australia’s seafood production in both quantity and value. The fishing industry is diverse in species targeted, methods used and areas fished. There are around 1,500...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-146
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding factors influencing undercaught TACs, declining catch rates and failure to recover for many quota species in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery

Concerns about the ecological and economic sustainability of Australia’s Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) prompted major structural readjustment of the fishery in 2006 that significantly reduced the number of operators in demersal trawl, Danish seine and gill net...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-116
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a 5-year sector and NT Strategic Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) Plan for Northern Territory fisheries and aquaculture based on priority needs of major stakeholder sectors

The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation’s (FRDC) Northern Territory Research Advisory Committee (NT RAC) recognised that a 5-year Research Development and Extension (RD&E) Plan was a major strategic need of the NT but acknowledged that there was limited capacity among sectors to...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd

Empowering industry through improved understanding of stock assessments and harvest strategies

Project number: 2010-306
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $237,385.00
Principal Investigator: Ian Knuckey
Organisation: Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 31 Aug 2010 - 29 Jul 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Participation of Industry and recreational members in the stock assessment process is vital and there is a real need for succession planning in MACs and RAGs. Their input provides important observations and anecdotal information that can help to interpret trends in the data, improving the quality and completeness of stock assessments and recommendations made. Furthermore, it can foster a better understanding of the science behind stock assessments, and create more support for buy-in of subsequent management policies. Without Industry and recreational sector participation, catch and effort data would be used with only a limited understanding of the factors that influence these data, beyond what is collected in logbooks and by observer programs. Participation, however, is more effective if they have a working knowledge of the data collected and processes and models used to assess fish stocks. This will lead to more efficient, beneficial, informative participation in the stock assessment process, and overall, better stock assessment and management of the fishery. Industry and recreational understanding of harvest strategies and stock assessment processes will also improve the level of co-management that can be achieved in a fishery.

Despite improvements in the assessment and harvest strategy process over the last decade, their remains a great deal of industry frustration / misunderstanding about how this translates into management decisions. Having spoken to many industry members during this time, we know that much (but not all) of this frustration is a direct result of lack of knowledge about assessment techniques and assumptions and how these interplay with the harvest strategy. Once they ahve acquired this knowledge, Industry members, with their extensive experience on the water, become extremely valuable members of RAGs / MACs and can help improve the assessment and management process and the understanding of other members.

Objectives

1. Identify a possible suite of capacity building approaches that would suit commercial and recreational fishers and assist them to actively participate in resource assessment groups through improved understanding of stock assessments and harvest strategies.
2. Determine the most suitable suite of capacity building approaches for commercial and recreational fishers through testing with selected fishers.
3. Use the results of objective 2 to deliver capacity building to a broad group of fishers in 3 case-study Commonwealth fisheries.
4. Review the efficacy of the capacity building undertaken in the 3 case studies.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9873286-4-9
Author: Ian Knuckey
Environment
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-069
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Indigenous Capacity Building Program

This project aimed to address the need to increase the number of Indigenous Australians with capacity to engage in management and governance of fisheries and aquatic resources, by developing a capacity building program with supporting materials and conducting capacity building activities with...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
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