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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-072
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Multiple - Before After Control Impact analysis of the effect of a 3D marine seismic survey on Danish Seine catch rates

The project is a four phase research program being conducted in the Danish seine commercial fishery off Lakes Entrance that looks to: 1. Examine effect of seismic testing on Danish seine catch rates of Tiger Flathead 2. Examine effect of seismic testing on Danish seine catch rates...
ORGANISATION:
The Trustee for Knuckey Family Trust
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implementation of dynamic reference points and harvest strategies to account for environmentally-driven changes in productivity in Australian fisheries

The need to adapt stock assessment methods and harvest strategies to explicitly and justifiably account for shifts in productivity has been recognised by the AFMA Resource Assessment Group for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF), not least as a result of clearly evident...
ORGANISATION:
Pisces Australis Pty Ltd

Developing and testing a multi-species, automated fish in-feed system for a production line to add-value and supply large local markets, replacing imports

Project number: 2015-225
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $140,000.00
Principal Investigator: Brad L. Duncan
Organisation: Lakes Entrance Fishermans Cooperative Ltd
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2015 - 29 Sep 2017
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

Objectives

Commercial in confidence

Life history specific habitat utilisation of tropical fisheries species

Project number: 2013-046
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $300,000.00
Principal Investigator: Marcus Sheaves
Organisation: James Cook University (JCU)
Project start/end date: 31 Dec 2013 - 8 Jun 2016
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The health and longevity of fisheries depend on access critical habitats appropriate to each particular life-history stage. While many key fisheries habitats are under threat from rapidly increasing coastal development, management of those habitats is severely hampered by very poor understanding of these life history-stage habitat requirements. This not only prevents effective management of critical fisheries resources but hampers the ability to direct development to enhance, rather than degrade fisheries value. At the moment many management and offsets actions are unsatisfactory to all users because they are based on incomplete understanding of fish-habitat relationships. This means actions and offsets rarely product tangible gains in ecosystem health or biodiversity, frustrating fishers, environmentalists, developers and governments alike. Not only can carefully designed developments provide new areas of critical habitat to replace habitats damaged in the past, but the opportunity exists for directing mandatory offsets from new coastal developments towards beneficial fisheries outcomes. This would provide the basis for greatly improved management of coastal fisheries habitats and would help to direct effective offset strategies, assist in directing fisheries friendly infrastructure design, and allow the development of metrics appropriate to the definitive measurement of specific fisheries outcomes from particular offset actions. Consequently, improved understanding of stage-specific habitat requirements of fisheries species is central to both the long-term health of fish stocks and fisheries productivity, and the effective management of coastal development to enhance fisheries values.

Objectives

1. Develop detailed models of the life history stage-specific habitat utilisation of key coastal and estuarine fisheries species at of the most detailed mensurative level possible (quantitative or semi-quantitative)
2. Formalise and consolidate fisher knowledge on fish-habitat relationships into an organised fish-habitat understanding,
3. Develop estimates of the relative contributions of different juvenile habitats to adult populations, and estimates of the relative value per unit area of alternative stage-specific habitats to fisheries stocks
4. Quantify the key resources provided by critical habitats over life histories
5. Develop specific, achievable measures of fisheries benefits stemming from repair, revitalisation and supplementation work
6. Provide information a-e in forms that can inform fisheries habitat management and repair, and value-add to habitat mapping

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9925222-1-6
Author: Marcus Sheaves

Impact of management changes on the viability of Indigenous commercial fishers and the flow on effects to their communities: case study in NSW

Project number: 2010-304
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $74,087.00
Principal Investigator: Stephan B. Schnierer
Organisation: Southern Cross University (SCU) Lismore Campus
Project start/end date: 30 Sep 2010 - 30 Sep 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Indigenous commercial fishers* (ICF) make up a small percentage of commercial fishers in NSW. They are usually small operators that;

(i) derive a personal income, and

(ii) many cases, supply some catch for local indigenous community consumption.

The NSW Indigenous Fisheries Strategy 2002 emphasized the importance of indigenous participation in the commercial fishing sector. A workshop conducted with ICF in 2003 identified obstacles to ongoing and future participation in the sector. Several issues were identified see 'A Draft Discussion Document and Action Plan. Developing the participation of Indigenous people in commercial fishing. A Report commissioned by NSW Fisheries '. One of the main issues identified was;

'The gradual and continuing decline of Aboriginal commercial fishers in the industry means loss of an accessible and appealing employment base for Aboriginal communities'.

To date little has been done to address the decline and recent communication with some ICF, particularly in far northern NSW, indicate that it is continuing. ICF indicate that ongoing changes to management approaches in NSW are making it even more difficult for them to stay now then previously.

There is an urgent need to analyse the possible impacts of new management changes (structural readjustment in NSW - see the Pyrmont Pact) on indigenous participation in commercial fisheries and to develop revised strategies that seek to maintain the existing levels and where possible increase indigenous involvement in commercial fisheries so as to address (i) and (ii) above.

*Here we are talking about indigenous participation in commercial fisheries, not cultural fisheries.

Objectives

1. Case study of indigenous commercial fisheries focussing initially on NSW as a basis for a national study
2. Determine the number of indigenous commercial fishers in NSW
3. Estimate the percentage of commercial catch made available to indigenous communities for personal consumption.
4. Identify management changes likely to impact indigenous participation in commercial fisheries and how they will impact.
5. Develop strategies to ameliorate the impacts of management change on indigenous participation in commercial fisheries.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9874424-0-6
Author: Stephan Schnierer
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