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National seafood emergency plan - SA trial workshop

Project number: 2002-419

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $5,000.00

Principal Investigator: Lorraine Rosenberg

Organisation: South Australian Fishing Industry Council

Project start/end date: 19 Oct 2002 - 30 Jun 2003

TAGS

Stakeholder

Food Safety

Community

Need

Failure to deal quickly and effectively with a food safety incident may result in costly trade disruption and threaten the commercial viability of seafood suppliers, processors, wholesalers, retailers and food service providers. The seafood emergency plan was developed through Seafood Services Australia to provide a proactive and simple step by step response and recovery guide, should an emergency occur.

SA has participated in the initial stages of the SSA national plan and is keen to ensure the framework is established in this state.

Objectives

1. Test the draft manual plan in a desktop exercise and introduce nominated team members and alternates to the plan and train them in the use of the plan.

2. Use experiences to tailor the manual further in SA.

Strategic plan for fisheries research in South Australia

Project number: 1997-148

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $14,573.82

Principal Investigator: Bill Williams

Organisation: South Australian Fishing Industry Council

Project start/end date: 8 Dec 1997 - 31 Dec 1998

TAGS

Need

At a time when increasing pressure is being brought to bear on the State's fisheries resources there is an urgent requirement for a coordinated, long term Strategy, to enable more efficient planning and conduct of practical fisheries research which will underpin further sustainable development of the fisheries Industry.

Maximum benefit must be extracted both from the finite amount of funding available for fisheries research and, from the considerable effort which is applied by research providers. To achieve this it is essential that appropriate research priorities are targetted transparently, and research programs are continuous and consistent in addressing those priorities.

A clearly stated and widely disseminated long term plan compiled with input from all stakeholders in the fisheries resource is an overdue requirement to effectively focus funds and effort on the common goal.

Objectives

1. To develop a long term research strategy which will clearly indicate consistent research priorities into the future.

2. To encourage greater consultation between industry, managers, and research providers during the identification and conduct of priority research projects.

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

TAGS

Sustainability

Stakeholder

Resource Enhancement

Resource Access And Allocation

Policy

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.

Socio-economic study of the rock lobster industry in the south-east of South Australia

Project number: 1979-020

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $0.00

Principal Investigator: Cleland

Organisation: South Australian Fishing Industry Council

Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1980 - 31 Dec 1980

TAGS

Social Science

Community

Objectives

1. Determine likely success of effort reduction program introduction in SE rock lobster fishery.

2. Identify types & numbers of fishermen likely to sell to buy-back authority

assess prospects for boat owners & crew.

3. Estimate cost of buying out to ensure viability

effects on communities