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RD&E capability audit and assessment for the Australian fishing and aquaculture industry 2013

Project number: 2013-410
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $23,450.00
Principal Investigator: Tom Lewis
Organisation: RDS Partners Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 30 Jul 2013 - 28 Nov 2013
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Need

This proposal is a response to an request by the FRDC to RDS Partners to undertake a current (2013) RD&E capability audit for the Australian Fishing and Aquaculture Industry, following the successful completion of the initial RD&E capability audit in 2009.

The final report to FRDC from the RD&E capability audit 2009 provided an analysis of the research, development and extension (RD&E) effort supporting Australia’s fisheries and aquaculture industries in the latter quarter of 2009 and supported the development of Working Together: The National Fishing and Aquaculture RD&E Strategy.

Since the release of - and in response to - Working Together: The National Fishing and Aquaculture RD&E Strategy, it is our understanding that significant changes have occurred in national RD&E capability. The advent of: the ARC Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) for Australian universities; Major-Support-Link Research Provider concept; National Research Providers Network (NRPN) and NRPN Hubs; and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Extension and Adoption Working Group, is likely to have seen restructuring of Fishing and Aquaculture RD&E capability at a national, State and institutional level.

Updating the RD&E capability audit for 2013 will provide a direct comparison with the capability status in 2009, allowing a current understanding of RD&E capability, capacity and future demand.

Australian agencies investing in RD&E need to understand current RD&E capability and capacity and future demand, in order to to plan for and deliver effective and efficient services to the Fishing and Aquaculture industry.

Objectives

1. To audit and assess the existing RD&E capability in the field of fisheries and aquaculture, and their aquatic ecology and biodiversity, within a national context
2. To identify change from 2009 in RD&E capability in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture, within: capability area
area of expertise
infrastructure
and investment – and within a regional context
3. To assess criteria (e.g. demonstration of ability, commitment & obligation) for Major, Support and Link research providers

A bibliography of FRDC and CRC aquaculture environmental research reports and related publications

Project number: 2011-525
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $51,750.00
Principal Investigator: Tom Lewis
Organisation: RDS Partners Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 31 Jan 2012 - 7 Oct 2012
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Need

On 25 October the Chair of the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), the Hon. Harry Woods, announced to the National Seafood Directions Conference that the results from the last community perception study of the seafood industry was poor and that something needed to be done to rectify this situation. As a result, Mr Woods announced that FRDC would pro-actively promote the results of research to the Australian community, media outlets and seafood consumers, and formally respond to factually incorrect media stories or information in the public arena.

Some activities are areas of work where a few stakeholders will work together. For example: + developing briefing notes on specific fishery issues, such as by-catch or interactions with non-target species.

This project supports this new FRDC direction.

Objectives

1. To provide the Australian “marketplace” with easily understood, factual information demonstrating the sustainable practices of selected aquaculture sectors
2. To build aquaculture’s social licence to operate.
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