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Sustainable fisheries management through enhanced access rights and resource security - a industry paper for presentation at Fishrights '99

Project number: 1999-161
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $24,400.00
Principal Investigator: Alistair McIlgorm
Organisation: South Australian Fishing Industry Council
Project start/end date: 22 May 1999 - 7 Sep 2000
Contact:
FRDC

Need

THE NEED IS FOR A REVIEW PAPER (or two smaller papers) WHICH REVIEW LEGAL AND MANAGEMENT BY RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES. IT WOULD HAVE TWO PARTS

PART A: LEGAL REVIEW
The legal status of fishery access rights in each state needs clarified as they vary between little or no rights, to statutory rights. The law can supply clarification on the rights held in a licence. It would be useful to describe these issues for all of Australia in a review paper for the FAO Conference.

PART B: REVIEW OF RIGHTS BASED MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES
There have been no reviews of rights based fishery management in Australia of late. Industry often see enhanced access rights as being a security issue, with sustainable considerations following behind. Alternatively government and community groups see sustainability as the paramount concern, not sufficiently recognising industry security.

The fishing industry need a review of alternative rights based fishing systems which may accommodate their desires to be more autonomous and responsible for achieving sustainable fisheries management. Enhanced right regimes are not "shelf ready" and must be developed between government and fishers.International fishery rights developments will be examined to see what takes place in other countries compared to Australia.

COMMON ISSUES - Significant impediments to the further development of rights based fishery management in Australia will be identified. These are the challenges for all parties in the development of sustainable rights based fishery management.

Objectives

1. Identification of the legal status of fishery rights in all states of Australia and review alternative forms of rights based management internationally.
2. A paper will be presented at the FAO Fishery Property Rights conference in Western Australia in November 1999, giving a review of legal and management/economic characteristics of current fishery property/access rights and resource security in Australia. SAFIC and ASIC have a place to speak at this forum.

Final report

ISBN: 0-957-72651-1
Author: Alistair McIlgorm
Final Report • 2000-05-28 • 326.90 KB
1999-161-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project investigates fishing rights in Australia reviewing both legal and management aspects.

The implementation of limited entry in Australian fisheries in the 1970s and 1980s led to the development of new fisheries legislation. Since then, the perspective of the legislative framework has changed and broadened. In the 1990s, the critical challenge facing governments and the fishing industry has been how to strike a delicate balance between the public’s ownership of fisheries resources and the need for a more secure access rights.  Very often, the debate has been focused narrowly on the issue of property rights

The project reviews fisheries legislation in Australia to determine the extent to which the legislative framework recognises fisheries entitlements as property rights. It is argued that the issue for industry is not so much whether fisheries entitlements constitute property rights in the legal sense, but the extent to which the legislative framework enhances such rights.

The application for the project 99/161 amended a previous one which was in two parts. Part I was funded by FRDC to provide review papers of rights in the Australian scene for the Fish Rights'99 Conference in Western Australia, November, 1999.  Part II: was not included in current project.

Project products

Report • 1.65 MB
Fishing rights benchmarking project.pdf

Summary

This project has been developed from the desires of the fishing industry in South Australia to clarify and enhance their fishing access rights and resource security. Investment requires some degree of certainty and many developments taking place in the management of marine resources in South Australia may not assist the investment climate. The benchmarking of fishing rights also comes as a natural progression of the desire of fishers to be more involved in the development of the resource management practices in their industry.

The fishing industry wish to be assured of their current fishing rights and how they can move from this benchmark towards enhanced fishery management arrangements with greater rights as an incentive to stakeholders.

Marine scalefish sector - Seafood Services Australia food safety pilot project

Project number: 2000-269
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $14,900.00
Principal Investigator: Lorraine Rosenberg
Organisation: South Australian Fishing Industry Council
Project start/end date: 9 Oct 2000 - 3 Apr 2002
Contact:
FRDC

Need

With the establishment of state based networks it is increasingly important to ensure that the products and services developed and delivered by Seafood Services Australia are relevant to and driven by local needs.

The original SeaQual food safety guidelines for harvesting, processing and retailing seafood were developed specifically to meet the requirements of Victorian legislation. Since then there have been changes in the development of the ANZFA national food safety standards as well as a number of SSA initiatives including the seafood food safety risk analysis, development of a draft seafood safety standard and the development of a national seafood food safety emergency management plan. The National Seafood Industry Training Package, released in March 2000, identifies food safety as one of the core competencies for anyone working in the seafood industry.

It is now timely to review the SeaQual food safety guidelines to ensure that they are pragmatic and relevant to various fishing industry sectors. In particular it is important to demonstrate that developing a food safety plan can be done at any level in the industry. To date there has not been much effort placed in relation to food safety in small, multi species, multi method fishing operations.

Demonstrating that the SeaQual food safety guidelines are useful pragmatic tools relevant to the whole industry will be an important aspect in developing the customer focus necessary to achieve an internationally competitive industry. The project will use the SeaQual food safety guidelines for harvesting and the associated template to develop specific fishery type models to further enhance the capacity of fishing businesses to understand and comply with their customer’s and the legislative requirements for production of safe food.

Objectives

1. Develop and implement food safety plans for selected marine scale fish enterprises using the SeaQual food safety guidelines for harvesting seafood and the accompanying food safety plan template.
2. Provide input and feedback to Seafood Services Australia on how to improve the SeaQual guidelines and template for use by other fishing operations.
3. Assist in developing capacity within the SA Marine Scale Fishery to identify and manage current and potential food safety risks.
4. Provide four model templates for the sectors within the SA Marine Scale Fishery, enabling all operators within this fishery to comply with required consumer and government standards.
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