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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-142
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Resource Sharing in Australian Fisheries Workshop - Progress to Date, Lessons Learnt and Next Steps towards a harmonised approach

Resource sharing is a high priority for the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum (AFMF) with all Australian jurisdictions in the process of developing or having developed policies associated with this issue. Some have gone further and implemented resource sharing with limited success....
ORGANISATION:
FutureCatch Consulting
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-314
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sharing the Fish conference '06

Sharing the Fish06 Conference was held from 26 February – 2 March 2006 and preceded by the FAO Pre Conference Workshop on 23 – 24 February 2006. Sharing the Fish06 Conference was an initiative of the Department of Fisheries Western Australia. The aim of the conference was to focus...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA

Approaches for incorporating Indigenous Rights, practices and catch into resource sharing and harvest strategy frameworks, based on international experiences

Project number: 2022-036
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $134,575.00
Principal Investigator: Nicholas R. McClean
Organisation: University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Project start/end date: 19 Apr 2023 - 29 Nov 2024
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Project need from the call for applications (summarised):
Across the globe, First Nations and Indigenous Peoples have been and continue to negotiate recognition of their fishing rights and for their knowledge and interests to be directly accounted for in intersectoral allocation and fisheries management. Recognition of Indigenous fishing rights into current fisheries management, in resource sharing policies and allocation is in various stages of development across Australia's states, territories, and the Commonwealth. At the same time and at the more operational level, harvest strategies are being developed which include Indigenous and cultural fishing, but greater guidance is required regarding harvest strategy settings which recognise the importance and account for the cultural, social, and economic impacts on local abundance and availability of fish stocks for Traditional Owners and local Indigenous communities. However, there is a gap in knowledge of possible approaches to address this, and the ability to generalise is still needed. To this end, this project will undertake a review of approaches and policies developed internationally and domestically for incorporating Indigenous Rights, knowledge, practices and catch (Cultural-Customary and Cultural-Commercial) into resource sharing and harvest strategy frameworks. It will identify possible approaches available for Australian fisheries management agencies, Traditional Owners, and Indigenous communities, while recognising the different historical, cultural, and legal contexts of different jurisdictions.

Summary of UTS approach:
The UTS project team will meet this need through convening a highly experienced team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, each with relevant expertise and experience in Australia and internationally. The existing work of the research team on multiple Indigenous harvest strategies and Indigenous led natural resource management initiatives will be drawn on to provide a sound basis for a survey of relevant examples. Importantly, senior Indigenous researchers guiding the project already have strong international networks and up to date knowledge on relevant international developments, that will be mobilised to guide this work, and to broker the knowledge and linkages of a range of expert participants into the project.

The research design for this proposal includes a thorough desktop study of the field, including mobilisation of UTS developed databases of specific relevance to the topic area, as well as detailed consultation with Australian and international experts throughout the process. The project will also involve co-production of knowledge with relevant experts/end users, through research activities designed to identify the parameters that influence what approaches are 'fit-for-purpose' in Australian settings.

Objectives

1. Generate new knowledge on best practice and current progress on recognition of Indigenous rights, practices and catch in resource allocation, harvest strategies and other relevant fisheries management approaches.
2. Co-develop with relevant experts and end users recommendations on a fit-for-purpose approach/approaches for the Australian setting.
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-201
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of a harvest management, governance and resource sharing framework for a complex multi-sector, multi-jurisdiction fishery: the south-east Australian ‘western’ snapper stock

This report involves the ‘Western Victorian Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) Stock’ (WVSS) which supports arguably the most important marine fin-fish fishery for Victoria. While the majority of the harvest is by Victorian fisheries, this stock is a straddling stock shared with South...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
SPECIES
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-215
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Resource access and resource allocation - guidelines

Issues surrounding access to fisheries resources and their allocation among competing parties go back to early feudal times in England where the Magna Carta was thought to be responsible for establishing the common law principle of the public right to fish in tidal waters, with fish being deemed to...
ORGANISATION:
PJ Neville and Associates
Blank
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-122
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Review of fishery resource access and allocation arrangements across Australian jurisdictions

In 2010, the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum listed access and allocation as one of the top priority policy issues to be addressed in Australian fisheries. Subsequently, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) formed a working group to examine possible approaches to access...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
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