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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
Contact:
FRDC

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)
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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-186
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Oil and Gas: National coordination - seismic and other issues

Commercial fishing industry throughout Australia is under continued pressure on its operation due to activities relating to the oil and gas sector such as seismic surveys, drilling, construction of sub-sea infrastructure and commissioning. Generally, the commercial fishing sector throughout...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-321
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Pilot project for a national database on fisheries R&D capacity

The objective of the project, to produce a comprehensive database of research providers in Western Australia, was achieved. Each of the major research institutions has entries, complete with Units within those institutions and the people that make up those Units. This system parallels the FRDC...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-748
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Investigating markets for Seafood in East Asia

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...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
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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)
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