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New Product Development from Low Value Species

Project number: 1995-142
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $68,045.00
Principal Investigator: Barry J. Hoole
Organisation: Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 1995 - 31 Jul 1996
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To improve the value of the fishery by: a) using more of the product caught
2. b) value adding the product
3. c) producing a dry lobster bait, or at least a fishmeal from the resultant waste.
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-700
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: Professional Fishing Certificate - A CRC legacy - phase 1 - industry demand

Three hundred fishermen across the majority of West Australian fisheries surveyed to help identify the core competencies considered appropriate for a Professional Fisherman’s Certificate. Fishermen were interviewed in the field and then completed an online survey. Respondents were asked to...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Industry
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-030
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Extension of MSC Certification for Western Australian Fisheries

This project provides learnings of successes and failures/challenges of MSC certification in WA. At the time of this report’s publication, 12 WA fisheries representing 90 percent value and approximately 60 percent of the total commercial catch in the state have been awarded MSC certification....
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Industry

SCRC: Investigating markets for Seafood in East Asia

Project number: 2010-748
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Richard N. Stevens
Organisation: Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2010 - 30 Dec 2010
Contact:
FRDC

Need

With the Australian dollar at historic highs, the need to help industry to determine which markets can give the best return on members' investment in time to investigate them and create some demand for products from WA is critical. Asia is still by far the largest market for Western Australian seafood but finding one Expo that will attract buyers from major importers such as China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea has not been possible until now. Individual exporters may go to the Expo, but a serious presence is needed for the WA industry to determine which of a plethora of contacts generated at such events will lead to markets for products in keeping with the State's reputation as a reliable exporter of low-volume, high-value products.

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-925982-52-7
Author: Richard Stevens
Final Report • 2010-09-19 • 1.01 MB
2010-748-DLD.pdf

Summary

With the Australian dollar at historic highs, the need to help industry to determine which markets can give the best return on members' investment in time to investigate them and create some demand for products from Western Australia is critical. Asia is still by far the largest market for Western Australian seafood but finding one Expo that will attract buyers from major importers such as China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea has not been possible until now. In 2010 The Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC) approved a three-year investment in the Asian Seafood Expo, commencing with the first Expo in September 2010. As this was the first genuinely all Asian Expo, and the first Expo in Asia that WAFIC has attended since the 2002 Tokyo Seafood Show, WAFIC needed market intelligence and sought and received co-investment from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). This investment allowed a professional market survey to be conducted carried out by the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Queensland, which was carrying out similar in-country research for the Abalone Council of Australia in China.

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