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Integrating indigenous fishing: extending adoption pathways to policy and management

Project number: 2022-076
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $140,000.00
Principal Investigator: Stan Lui
Organisation: Indigenous Marine Resources Consultants Australia (IMRCA)
Project start/end date: 14 Dec 2022 - 4 Jan 2024
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Indigenous
Fisheries Management

Need

The FRDC IRG has invested in a number of research projects to advance Indigenous rights, interests, opportunities and engagement in Australia's fisheries. However, fisheries management agencies across the jurisdictions appear to have struggled to engage with or make effective use of these outputs and to make progress with Indigenous fishing interests.

The project is intended to establish effective means for Indigenous fishing R&D outputs to deliver policy and management outcomes. To do this, the project will engage with agencies to understand: their information needs; current progress, impediments and opportunities in integrating Indigenous fishing R&D outputs into their policies and management; and develop a template that can be used by all future PIs to frame IRG research outputs in a form useful to agencies.

There is also an identified need to build Indigenous leadership capacity to shape fisheries policy and management at the highest level. The Indigenous principle investigator, will also bring cultural advice and insight to the project.

Objectives

1. Document the impediments and opportunities for Indigenous engagement and adoption of IRG project outputs across fisheries management jurisdictions in Australia.
2. Identify the priorities for Indigenous fishing in jurisdictions with a focus on the 5 IRG RD&E priorities.
3. Develop a report synthesizing the impediments, opportunities and priorities for Indigenous fishing engagement and adoption to guide future IRG investment.
4. Develop a template for future IRG projects that will ensure engagement and adoption are maximized.
5. Professional development and capacity building of the Indigenous Principal Investigator and grow cultural awareness in wider participants.

Indigenous fishing subprogram: Facilitation of the third FRDC National Indigenous Fisheries RD&E Stakeholders Forum

Project number: 2014-404.20
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $80,200.00
Principal Investigator: Stan Lui
Organisation: Indigenous Marine Resources Consultants Australia (IMRCA)
Project start/end date: 15 Nov 2015 - 31 May 2016
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Indigenous
Fisheries Management
Community

Need

Less than 2% of State fisheries agency RD&E capacity is focused towards indigenous needs. Only the NT has an operational group focusing on indigenous fishing and aquaculture.

Indigenous input and project assessment by FRDC is limited due to the complexities and costs of engaging effectively with indigenous Australians on fishing and seafood related RD&E.

The FRDC’s IRG members do their best to provide grassroots advice and input at its regular meetings but this has its limitations due to the large geographic and often remote location of its end users. While the IRG is made of experienced members, they all undertake their role on the IRG as volunteers and maintain fulltime employment. Due to the small number of members the IRG need confidence around the type of advice that it can provide towards a national approach.

The IRG has identified that a semi-regular systematic and inclusive forum/workshop is required to ground truth its relevance and guide its RD&E investment is vital to allow it to maintain and develop endorsed identifiable Indigenous sector input to the research priorities and strategies.

It is therefore proposed to undertake a third FRDC National Indigenous Fisheries RD&E Forum which will also allow the expansion of the group’s capacity by broadening its network through the inclusion of additional people who provide expertise and links to improve FRDC’s strategic investment in indigenous focused RD&E and providing an environment conducive to building trust and securing genuine and well-considered input.

This forum will provide advice and assistance to help address the above needs of the FRDC, and to assist the Forum to enhance engagement and enhance RD&E needs for the indigenous commercial and customary sectors.

Objectives

1. - Undertake a third FRDC National Indigenous Fisheries RD&E Forum to provide formal advice to the participants on a range of matters as outlined in the methods section.
2. - Seek advice from a wide range (industry experience and geographical locations) of Indigenous expertise and links to assist to improving FRDC’s strategic investment in indigenous focused RD&E.
3. - Report to the FRDC Board to further develop its investment in RD&E that has a significant benefit to Indigenous Australians.
4. - Enhance the current extension process to the broader indigenous community, Commonwealth and State Departments and key national research programs (e.g National Environmental Science Program, Caring for Country and Reef 2050 Strategic Investment Program) through the links and networks developed at the meeting.

Final report

Author: Jill Briggs and Stan Lui
Final Report • 2016-11-16 • 2.82 MB
2014-404.20-DLD.pdf
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