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El-Nemo SE: risk assessment of impacts of climate change for key species in South Eastern Australia

Project number: 2009-070
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $140,163.66
Principal Investigator: Gretta T. Pecl
Organisation: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date: 21 Dec 2009 - 30 Oct 2010
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Wild Catch
Population Dynamics
Physiology
Oceanography
Modelling

Need

Climate change is expected to alter physical and chemical oceanographic conditions and processes around Australia, yet the influence this could have on the distributions of various marine species is still relatively unknown. The marine waters of South Eastern Australia are expected to be significantly affected by climate change, experiencing the greatest climate-driven changes in the southern hemisphere over the next century. The impacts and opportunities that will result from these changes will depend, in part, on how well the fisheries and aquaculture sectors and their managers respond to these challenges. A sound risk-based approach to informing both management arrangements and decisions by the sectors will be critical for optimizing outcomes. It is essential that the potential impacts of climate change on key resources are assessed and effectively communicated to support the development of policies that allow industry to minimize adverse effects by optimizing adaptation responses (e.g. by providing flexible management arrangements) and seizing opportunities as they arise (e.g. for species where productivity increases).

This project has been identified as a clear and immediate need through the SEAP Plan (draft) and also establishes a platform of baseline information from which we can start to address several key priority areas identified in the Draft Marine National Adaptation Research Plan (NARP). Priorities identified in the draft NARP include 1/ Which farmed species in which locations are most likely to be impacted as a result of climate change?, and for fisheries 2/ Which fishery stocks, in which locations, are most likely to change as a result of climate change? What will those changes be (e.g., in distribution, productivity) and when are they likely to appear under alternative climate change scenarios? Clearly, comprehensive and synthesised information on the sensitivities and tolerances of key species are the first steps required to address these priorities.

Objectives

1. Identify the life history stages, habitats and aquaculture systems of key species that may be impacted by climate change
2. Identify the physical and chemical parameters that may determine the potential impacts of climate change on key species
3. Conduct a preliminary risk assessment of each key species to the potential impacts of climate change
4. Highlight what additional information on the tolerances and sensitivities will be needed to develop bioclimatic envelope models for key species

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-86295-618-6
Final Report • 2012-04-05 • 3.21 MB
2009-070-Part1of2-DLD.pdf
Final Report • 2012-04-05 • 8.21 MB
2009-070-Part2of2-DLD.pdf
Final Report • 2012-04-05 • 3.21 MB
2009-070-Part1of2-DLD.pdf
Final Report • 2012-04-05 • 8.21 MB
2009-070-Part2of2-DLD.pdf
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-718
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Seafood CRC Research Travel Grant: Targeted meetings with key research providers and industry personnel in the UK relevant to CRC projects 2011/703 and 2011/735

This trip involved targeted meetings with key research and industry personnel to consolidate the existing relationship and secure ongoing research support for two Seafood CRC student projects as well as to advance the research agendas developed as part of those projects and establish ongoing...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Recreational Fishing
Health And Safety
Aquaculture
People
People

SCRC: SCRC RTG: Dr Barbara Nowak "Research exchange to the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling"

Project number: 2009-719
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Barbara Nowak
Organisation: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date: 4 May 2009 - 30 Jul 2009
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Harvest Strategy
Education
Disease
Conference
Aquaculture

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-925982-58-9
Author: Barbara Nowak
Final Report • 2009-07-31 • 360.11 KB
2009-719-DLD.pdf

Summary

The purpose of this travel grant was to conduct collaborative research to:

  • Investigate gene expression in early amoebic gill disease (AGD), including gene expression in different cell types to investigate AGD pathogenesis using metabonomics and assess further applications of metabonomics to fish health research
  • Compare Neoparamoeba perurans strains in Scotland and Tasmania
  • Develop collaborations with various UK academic staff from multiple institutions around the UK such as Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Stirling University, the University of Edinburgh, and Imperial College London.

This travel grant allowed the author to visit three salmon farms in Scotland – two Marine Harvest sites and one Scottish Salmon farm. A number of salmon were examined; however none of the farms had AGD outbreaks at the time of the visit. Collaboration was established with Marine Harvest to ensure availability of infected material from future AGD outbreaks.

The author visited Dr Jeremy Griffin at Cambridge University and Dr Jake Bundy at Imperial College London to discuss preliminary results for metabonomics from AGD infected salmon. These meetings were very fruitful, provided a lot of technical information and will most likely result in long term collaboration with Dr Jake Bundy. Preliminary results suggest that AGD infected fish can be differentiated from controls on the basis of their metabolite profile, at least in the later stages of the disease.

Future collaboration in the area of the use of immunostimulants in aquaculture was established with Dr Chris Gould and Dr Patrick Smith from Intervet Schering Plough and Prof Sandra Adams and Dr Kim Thompson from Stirling University. Dr Patrick Smith is following up similar testing of novel immunostimulants developed by University College Hospital Medical School in London. Collaboration was established with French researchers (Dr Philippe Sourd's group) investigating health of farmed Sea Bream and Sea Bass, AGD was diagnosed in some of their fish and this research was a joint presentation at EAFP conference and a publication.

Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-072
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health and productivity

This research has shown that the profitability of both agriculture on land and aquaculture in the estuary is affected by changing freshwater flows. To assess the value of water to different users across a catchment we developed a generic water accounting framework and populated it with available...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Resource Access And Allocation
Freshwater
Estuarine
Ecosystem
Economic
SPECIES
Pacific Oyster

Sea Change: co-developing pathways to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate for fisheries and aquaculture in Australia

Project number: 2023-011
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $1,628,586.00
Principal Investigator: Gretta T. Pecl
Organisation: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date: 31 Oct 2023 - 30 Apr 2027
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Climate Resilience
Climate Mitigation
Climate Change
Adaptation

Need

There is a need to increase effective engagement between fishing and aquaculture stakeholders and climate science and scientists in an ongoing strategic way, and not ‘just’ for single-project outcomes.

Improved engagement will help increase understanding of the likely implications of a changing climate in relevant contexts, and lay foundations for a shared exploration of available options for reducing risk exposure. We have worked with stakeholders and the FRDC Extension Officer Network to design a strategy that will engage fishing and aquaculture stakeholders on existing knowledge regarding risks and opportunities associated with a changing climate, to enable resource managers and researchers to better understand the ways in which many sectors are already adapting autonomously and to identify the barriers to further adaptation, and to co-design solutions that are relevant at local- and industry-levels to help build climate-ready communities and to stimulate economic resilience.

In many cases (but not all), extensive information regarding marine climate change - including key risks to fisheries and aquaculture producers (at a high level) - is already available, along with information on how to develop adaptation plans. However, despite this, progress and uptake within most sectors in terms of planned adaptation responses has been very slow – although many individual operators are already making ‘autonomous’ changes to their day-to-day operations in response to climate change drivers. If these changes are being made without access to best available knowledge, then it is very likely that substantial portions of these responses are maladaptive in the longer term, or may be countervailing to planned government adaptations (see Pecl et al 2019, Ambio, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-019-01186-x). This is a pattern evident within many different industries around Australia and across the rest of the world. ‘What’ needs to happen has thus been outlined in general terms in many cases, but such information is not co-developed or provided in consultation with end-users in ways that resonate or are useful to them. This project will address this need for relevance and usefulness.

The project aims to develop reflexive, ongoing, and two-way knowledge exchange between industry representatives, operators and manager, and the marine climate change impacts and adaptation research sector, so that solutions are co-designed, usable, and adoptable.

Objectives

1. Work with seafood industry leaders to establish two-way climate conversations that can strengthen and underpin Australian fishing and aquaculture’s resilience to a changing climate. This approach will facilitate co-design of pathways to increase agility and build capacity for climate change adaptation with a select number of fisheries and aquaculture operations. This process will also create a model that can be applicable to other RDC’s.
2. Create a climate conversations platform to facilitate knowledge exchange (including identifying ‘gaps’ and shared issues), and thus capture, disseminate, and showcase:a. How fishing and aquaculture sectors are already adapting and responding to recent changesb. What has facilitated these changes made, and what the barriers are to further adaptationc. The story of fishing and aquaculture’s efforts towards achieving climate resilience - using a dynamic ‘story map’ approach, and other multi-media, communicate progress to target audiences.
3. Identify a) key factors influencing the agility of fisheries and aquaculture to adapt to climate change, and b) which factors (e.g. opportunities) are most important for adaptation capacity-building for different types of operations - building on work underway across multiple domestic and international projects and working groups.
4. Co-develop pathways, with a select number of fisheries and aquaculture operations, to increase their agility and build sector capacity for climate change adaptation and resilience.
5. Support the development of communities of practice for groups of fisheries and/or aquaculture operations that have similar opportunities and pathways – to support increased agility and capacity building for climate change adaptation (determined in objective 3).
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-039
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

FRDC-DCCEE: preparing fisheries for climate change: identifying adaptation options for four key fisheries in South Eastern Australia

Over the next century, the marine ecosystems of south-eastern Australia are expected to exhibit some of the largest climate-driven changes in the Southern Hemisphere. The effects of these changes on communities and businesses will depend, in part, on how well fishing industries and resource managers...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Population Dynamics
Harvest Strategy
Ecosystem
Distribution
Climate Change
SPECIES
Snapper
Blue Grenadier
Southern Rock Lobster
Blacklip Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-704
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: maximising value by reducing stress-related mortality in wild harvested abalone

The Abalone Council of Australia (ACA) has clearly identified in their Strategic Plan (2007-2017) goals to have an Australian national wild abalone brand driven by a national Quality Assurance and Product Integrity Program, and to increase the industry gross volume of production (in real terms) by...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Survey
Physiology
Mortality
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
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