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Tactical Research Fund - Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Disease risk assessment for abalone stock enhancement program

Project number: 2011-046
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $67,000.00
Principal Investigator: Richard N. Stevens
Organisation: Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Project start/end date: 28 Aug 2011 - 29 Mar 2012
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Need

Abalone stock enhancement remains one of the few viable alternatives for increasing the profitability and biomass of a fishery without compromising the current fishery in terms of access or allowable catches. Economically viable stock enhancement could provide the fishery with stock numbers towards virgin levels, thus increasing catch rates and ultimately economic efficiency and profitability. However, there is a need for a project to develop the R&D that will create a commercially viable stock enhancement industry. This is the subject of a current Seafood CRC project (2010/784 - Commercialisation of abalone stock enhancement).

Prior to the commercialisation the industry wants to understand the biosecurity risks of the larger scale stock enhancement project; in other words to weigh up the potential economic gains against biosecurity risks. The recent AVG outbreak in Tasmania highlighted the requirement for industry to be vigilant regarding potential disease vectors.

In order to protect the valuable abalone industry from potential biosecurity threats, there is a need to undertake a risk assessment to quantify raw and residual risks associated with commercialization of abalone stock enhancement. Although being carried out in WA, this risk assessment has national significance to the abalone industry.

Objectives

1. Independent risk assessment of the raw biosecurity risks posed by the commercial scale abalone stock enhancement.
2. Independent risk assessment of the residual biosecurity risks posed by the commercial scale abalone stock enhancement, following staged implementation of risk mitigation measures (note: mitigation measures are to be defined in detail)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-231
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Occupational health and safety national extension strategy

All states have an OHS Code, which contains three parts. Part 1 addresses the legal requirements of workplace and marine safety legislation. Part 2 addresses generic OHS requirements across all fisheries. Part 3 outlines the basis for a vessel safety management plan. Workshops outlining the OHS Code...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-228
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

A pilot project conducted in the western rock lobster industry, to create a software audit tool for assessing occupational health and safety compliance with industry best practice on board a commercial fishing vessel

The Western Australian Fishing Industry Council has had a comprehensive health and safety code for use in the wild catch fishing industry in place since 1992. The OSH Code (hereafter referred to as the Code) was developed as a result of an increasing fatality and serious incident rate within the...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-401
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Pilot project to determine the effectiveness of FoodSafe Plus as a tool in meeting FSANZ Food Safety Standards

The project demonstrated that businesses that comply with FoodSafe Plus have work practices that will conform to the Australian Seafood Standard and thus comply with their responsibilities under the mandatory Food Safety Standards. Although the project was to introduce a food safety program to...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Industry
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-194
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SeSAFE - delivering industry safety through electronic learning

The SeSAFE project represented a unique and successful collaboration between the fishing industry, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to improve safety awareness and performance in the fishing and aquaculture industry. For...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
People
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-361
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of severe weather and tropical cyclone education video

Given the tragic history of the results of cyclones off the WA coast with specific regard to the commercial fishing industry, there is now as part of the Master Class 5 syllabus, a tropical cyclone short course for Uniform Shipping Laws Certificates of Competency and a stand alone optional...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-304
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood Directions 2003 - 3rd biennial national seafood industry conference

Perth, Western Australia was the Host State for the third Seafood Directions Conference. The conference is held bi annually and is the premier conference for members and associated parties of the seafood industry. The conference was previously held in Brisbane (2001) and Adelaide (1999), Sydney will...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-077
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of crystal crab resource from Cape Leeuwin to the WA/SA border.

The licensed crustacean fishermen on the south coast of Western Australia recognised that a resource of Crystal Crab, Chaceon bicolor existed between Cape Leeuwin (ca 115º E) and the South Australian border (129º E). In order to develop this resource to its optimum and sustainable...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
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