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Improving the availability of safe and effective veterinary medicines for Australia's seafood industry

Project number: 2020-094
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $302,185.91
Principal Investigator: Matthew S. Bansemer
Organisation: University of Adelaide
Project start/end date: 31 May 2021 - 27 Jun 2024
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Animal Welfare
Animal Health

Need

Globally, disease is the major limiting factor restricting growth in aquaculture (Stentiford et al 2012; Jennings et al 2016), with impact of aquatic diseases exceeding $6 billion per annum. Aquaculture is the fastest growing livestock industry in Australia, and is expected to double in value to $2 billion by 2027 to meet global seafood demand (National Aquaculture Strategic Plan). Therefore access to safe and effective veterinary medicines is critically import to support the current industry and its expansion.

Australia’s aquaculture industry must have access to safe and effective veterinary medicines for disease management, industry productivity and animal welfare. This need is highlighted in Australia’s national strategic plan (www.agriculture.gov.au/animal/aquatic/aquaplan) and FRDC’s strategic plan (2015-2020 and 2020-2025) including supporting the future sustainable expansion of aquaculture.

Veterinary medicines are required for prevention (for example, vaccines), therapeutic treatments (for example, antibiotics, anthelmintics and antimycotics) and husbandry (for example, hormones for reproduction and anaesthetics for animal handling). Currently there is a substantial lack of access to permitted or registered products.

There is a clear need for national coordination of applications for permits and registrations for aquatic veterinary medicines that replaces the duplication, disjointed efforts, poor permit applications and restrictive minor use permits and generally wasted resources occurring in the seafood industry.

There is a need to coordinate seafood industry prioritisation and application for access and use of agvet chemicals and to establish effective relationships between the seafood industry and APVMA to progress this important issue.

A model to support the resourcing of this service to industry and regulators needs to be devised to maintain this activity after completion of this project.

Objectives

1. Document a safe and effective process for the off-label use of veterinary medicines aimed at supporting fish health, welfare and production while managing environmental risks and enabling data generation.
2. Coordinate a national effort to facilitate the progress of priority aquatic veterinary medicines in the seafood industry through to permitting or registration with the APVMA
3. Determine options for a system, framework and / or business case to effectively coordinate national data generation and applications to the APVMA into the future, and maintain current permits and registrations in the seafood industry.
4. Develop and implement a communication and awareness strategy for industry on safe and effective veterinary medicine use
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-031
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessing the Risk of Pathogenic Vibrio Species in Tasmanian Oysters

The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) in collaboration with the Tasmanian oyster industry and regulators, University of Tasmania and Plant and Food Research New Zealand undertook a survey of significant foodborne Vibrio species (Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
TAGS
Rac Tas
SPECIES
Native Oyster
Pacific Oyster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-088
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a national sector-specific biosecurity plan guideline and template for the sea-cage finfish (non-salmonid) industry of Australia.

In this project, we developed guidelines to provide the Australian sea-cage finfish (non-salmonid) industry with the tools and templates to create an auditable farm biosecurity plan. Consideration was given to the current farming of yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi), southern bluefin tuna...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
TAGS
Workshop
Trade
Resource Access And Allocation
Disease
Biosecurity
SPECIES
Southern Bluefin Tuna
Yellowtail Kingfish
Cobia
Industry
Industry
Environment
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-131
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Media messages about sustainable seafood: how do media influencers affect consumer attitudes?

We have conducted a comprehensive media survey of key media texts across all major genres and platforms for the past 3 years (2015-2018) to identify: the major reported issues affecting seafood sustainability; the role of celebrity chefs and media influencers in this media coverage; and the effects...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
TAGS
Sustainability
Media
Human Dimensions Research
Consumer
Community

Profiling and tracking change in Australia's seafood workforce: establishing a baseline workforce dataset

Project number: 2022-034
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $259,342.00
Principal Investigator: Stephane M. Mahuteau
Organisation: University of Adelaide
Project start/end date: 30 Sep 2022 - 28 Aug 2025
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workforce
Social Science
Social Science
Human Dimensions Research
Data

Need

The project developed to address the call for EOI recognises that the seafood workforce is diverse and operates within a changing natural, technological, and socioeconomic environment, providing unique challenges and opportunities. The seafood workforce also, however, operates within the wider Australian economy where rural and regional employment, small-medium business operations, and increasing value-adding opportunities are common topics of interest. The project proposes to provide a comprehensive assessment of the current data framework, make recommendations for improving it, and develop a baseline workforce dataset. The focus will be on the potential to use existing sources of data (particularly administrative data collected by government institutions and data that is required to be collected) and how and when those need to be effectively complemented with additional data. Administrative data are confidential and access limited as is the variety of seafood industry data often collected. Accessing administrative data is explicitly part of this proposal and identifying the sources of, and the type of data available, from industry surveys.

Objectives

1. To establish a baseline workforce dataset to address the lack of accessible, accurate workforce data
2. To identify how to overcome the shortcomings of official classifications to better align data information with how the seafood industry and its workforce operate.
3. To determine how using whole of population statistical data may provide a more accurate picture of the seafood industry workforce
4. To use available literature and expert input to provide an understanding of the true diversity of employment in the seafood sector.
5. To undertake a comprehensive stock-take of the relevant current data sources recording information on the seafood industry workforce.
6. To undertake a comprehensive analysis of the existing data sources and investigate the usefulness of large administrative data such as BLADE/MADIP.
7. To closely involve seafood industry participants through an effective stakeholder engagement strategy and promote a co-design element to the project
8. To provide recommendations to address data gaps and improve the utility of current data, and support the FRDC in meeting the objectives of its Capability and Capacity Building Strategy.
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