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Seafood CRC: analysis of product differentiation opportunities for Australian wild caught Abalone in China—Stage 2 (ACA component)

Project number: 2009-723.30
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $351,846.79
Principal Investigator: Dean M. Lisson
Organisation: Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA)
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2010 - 31 Oct 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Over the last decade, the capital value of the abalone quota units and the beach price per kilo for wild-caught Abalone
has dropped by about 50% (after allowing for inflation). The main reason for this decline in industry value is more competition - particularly from farmed abalone, although currency fluctuations have also played a role.

The most important market for Australian abalone products in terms of both volume and value is currently mainland China. Demand is subject to normal economic forces, but appears to be fairly constant. However, in a market that is growing in line with the Chinese economy, Australian abalone returns and capital growth have been steadily declining since 2000.

No specific activities aimed at positioning Australian Wild Caught Abalone have been undertaken with customer (restaurant) or consumers. The industry has principally operated as an export sales function, building strong relationships with Chinese importers, but further down the supply chain, there has been no involvement by Australian stakeholders.

It is the view of the Abalone Council of Australia that a serious commitment to trialing a product differentiation strategy and an associated marketing effort in China is required to ascertain whether it is possible to prevent further economic damage and start improving the value of unit holders’ investments.

Research to date suggests that the best opportunity is to establish a program that increases demand for Australian Wild Caught abalone in Chinese restaurants specifically targeting the emerging mass affluent consumers.

Objectives

1. To determine whether Australian Wild Caught Abalone can be successfully differentiated within the Chinese market resulting in increased demand and increased value
2. To gain Australian wild caught abalone industry commitment to ongoing funding of market development efforts in China

Seafood CRC: Analysis of product differentiation opportunities for Australian Wild Caught Abalone in China—Stage 1

Project number: 2009-723.20
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $83,605.34
Principal Investigator: Dean M. Lisson
Organisation: Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA)
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2009 - 30 Mar 2010
Contact:
FRDC

Need

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

Objectives

Commercial in confidence

Seafood CRC: analysis of product differentiation opportunities for Australian wild caught Abalone in China - Stage 2 (Grey Group)

Project number: 2009-723
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $644,759.52
Principal Investigator: Naveen Rao
Organisation: Grey Group
Project start/end date: 28 Feb 2010 - 29 Dec 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Over the last decade, the capital value of the abalone quota units and the beach price per kilo for wild-caught Abalone has dropped by about 50% (after allowing for inflation). Historically Abalone consumption in China is strongly associated with status and prestige. While the overall volume of consumption is substantial Abalone consumption is very seasonal and there is a regular disconnect between supply and demand. This disconnect creates price elasticity and pushes importers and distributors to commit malpractices to improve their margins in turn compromising the product integrity.

Key market dynamics include:
1.Chinese consumers do not have any knowledge and awareness of the place of origin and depend on the restaurant recommendation;
2. Dishes cooked with Abalone are very traditional and the domain of highly experienced and skilled chefs.
3.The wholesalers and restaurants express common concerns regarding unstable supply, quality and product integrity and price fluctuations as a proportionate response to upstream volatility.
4. Hong Kong and Shenzhen importer practices exist due to high entry barriers and the invisibility of the supply chain.
5.Australian processors suffer from loss of control beyond Hong Kong and hence cannot track the actual consumption due to the invisibility of demand.

This project will test the following:

1. Whether a value proposition exists for Australian Wild Caught Abalone amoung the emerging affluent Chinese consumers particularly focusing on the fusion cuisine trend
2. That it is possible to differentiate Australian Wild Caught Abalone from competitor product by developing integrated B2B and B2C activation strategies
3. That it is possible for Australian Abalone producers and processors to collaborate to establish a profitable “white channel” for Australian Wild Caught Abalone

Objectives

1. To determine whether a value proposition exists for Australian Wild Caught Abalone amoung the emerging affluent Chinese consumers particularly focusing on the fusion cuisine trend and how best to capture that value proposition
2. To evaluate the potential for new product formats in new market segments and to establish the basis under which Australian Abalone producers and processors can collaborate to establish a profitable “white channel” for Australian Wild Caught Abalone
3. To establish the business case for a self funded, long term and sustainable collaborative market development effort in China for Australian Wild Caught Abalone
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-714.30
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: economic management guidance for Australian abalone fisheries

Current Australian abalone fisheries management primarily uses biological and catch data to set total allowable catch limits (TACs). Performance targets are usually based on trends in catch rate or catch and aim to maintain these indicators within historic bounds that have prevented recruitment...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-712
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: future harvest theme leadership

The CRC has developed the Future Harvest theme business plan to deliver the following outcomes: Fisheries management delivering maximum benefit from the resource while maintaining stocks above sustainability indicators Novel management strategies in place which increase economic yield from...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry

PIRSA Initiative II: carrying capacity of Spencer Gulf: hydrodynamic and biogeochemical measurement modelling and performance monitoring

Project number: 2009-046
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $1,168,929.00
Principal Investigator: John Middleton
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
Project start/end date: 18 Jun 2009 - 29 Jun 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Need

PIRSA Aquaculture have indicated that they intend to develop a number of new aquaculture zones around the state over the next 5 years as well as revisit early assumptions of carrying capacity estimates developed in Innovative Solutions 1, in order to meet the anticipated expansion of the aquaculture industry within South Australia. This expansion is necessary to meet SA’s target of $2 billion in seafood production by 2015. It is also essential that PIRSA Aquaculture is prepared for successful propagation of southern bluefin tuna, which could see the farmed biomass of this species increase significantly in a few years, particularly in Spencer Gulf where existing aquaculture infrastructure and support services are in place.

The ability to obtain accurate estimates of spatial and temporal variability in the cycling of carbon and other macro-nutrients through the ecosystems in Spencer Gulf will provide important information about potential risks and impacts of increased aquaculture activities in the Gulf. This need will be met through the development of calibrated hydrodynamic and bio-geochemical models for Spencer Gulf that will also determine the carrying capacity of aquaculture areas, including the concurrent use of both supplementary and non-supplementary fed organisms within each area. Further, the development of strategies for long-term performance monitoring, management and mitigation are needed for the aquaculture areas in Spencer Gulf. These outcomes will further justify the South Australian government’s approach to sustainable aquaculture development as directed by the Aquaculture Act 2001.

The stated limits in the ability to deliver the above for other areas (e.g. shelf waters off Ceduna) or species (e.g. scallops) by the researchers will aid PIRSA Aquaculture to determine the future resource requirements for getting the other areas of South Australia up to the policy and regulatory standards set by this work in Spencer Gulf.

Objectives

1. To provide PIRSA Aquaculture with estimates of sustainable, carrying capacity by region, season and species for Spencer Gulf, and to investigate the impact of non-supplementary fed species (eg oysters) on these estimates.
2. To achieve this overall objective, we will collect data from five areas so as to build, calibrate and validate hydrodynamic, biogeochemical and wave models that describe the biophysical properties of the Gulf. These models and data will then be used to determine the following:
3. Provide measures of connectivity of nutrients for the Gulf, including aquaculture (supplementary fed species) and non-aquaculture (natural and industry) derived nutrient inputs.
4. Provide management with solutions to questions of carrying capacity, sustainability and impact for existing and proposed sites of aquaculture (supplementary fed species).
5. Use the carrying capacity estimates to validate or otherwise, earlier estimates that were obtained from simplified flushing models (see Methods).
6. Develop and incorporate models for non-supplementary fed species (oysters and mussels) with parameters identified that are critical to model sensitivity.
7. Develop strategies for long-term performance monitoring, management and mitigation strategies.
8. Determine limitations in the ability to deliver the above for other areas (e.g. shelf waters off Ceduna) or species (e.g. scallops).

Final report

Authors: John Middleton Mark Doubell Charles James John Luick and Paul van Ruth

Aboriginal fisheries in New South Wales: determining catch, cultural significance of species and traditional fishing knowledge needs

Project number: 2009-038
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $84,916.00
Principal Investigator: Stephan B. Schnierer
Organisation: Southern Cross University (SCU) Lismore Campus
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2009 - 29 Nov 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Sustainable fishing is based in part on management strategies that deliver an equitable share of the total catch to all users including indigenous fishers. Historically fisheries management agencies have ignored indigenous fishing rights which has resulted in restrictions on cultural practices which have contributed not only to a loss of access to traditional target species but a loss of traditional fisheries knowledge (TFK). In some cases indigenous people have been made to feel like criminals when accessing traditional target species for food or cultural purposes. Restrictions preventing cultural fishing can result in conflict, potential ‘non-compliance’ and a loss of TFK. There is strong international and national support for the protection of TFK (see UN Convention on Biological Diversity Article 8(j) and 10 (c), and the EPBC Act 1999.) The N.S.W. Indigenous Fisheries Strategy clearly articulates the need for research into indigenous fisheries as does the N.S.W. DPI.

The establishment of marine protected areas has often proceeded in N.S.W. without knowledge of customary fishing areas nor necessarily a willingness to accommodate cultural fishing. This will build a better picture of where and how much is being taken. Access to traditional foods is essential in insuring a healthier life style. Aboriginal people still assert a desire to procure a regular supply of fresh fish for personal and community consumption yet management regimes put in place to deal with ‘overfishing’ and/or dwindling stock sizes have yet to accommodate the need of indigenous communities to have access to traditional target species for food.

There are large information gaps in relation to;
(i) the size and location of the indigenous take of aquatic organisms in N.S.W.,
(ii) present day cultural associations with various target species (particularly freshwater species) and
(iii) the status of traditional fishing knowledge.

This project will begin to address these information gaps.

Objectives

1. Determine what aquatic organisms (fish) are of specific cultural relevance to Traditional owner groups (identify species and their location)
2. Seek to quantify the indigenous catch (species, numbers, weight, frequency of fishing) at the level of Traditional Owner groups.
3. Develop an ongoing research partnership with Traditional Owner groups based on trust to be able to move to the documentation on traditional fishing knowledge and the establishment of community owned and control data base.
4. Build capacity of indigenous people to conduct fisheries related research.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-646-56829-4
Author: Stephan Schnierer
Final Report • 2012-05-04 • 2.45 MB
2009-038-DLD.pdf

Summary

This report presents the results of a Fisheries Research Development Corporation (FRDC) funded study of Aboriginal fisheries in New South Wales. A key objective of the study was to address information gaps in relation to catch, cultural significance of species and traditional fishing knowledge (TFK) needs. Due to project resources, the scope of this study was limited to a single site in far north New South Wales, the Tweed River Catchment, in partnership with the site’s Traditional Owners, the Minjungbal people. An important outcome of this project was the development of a culturally appropriate methodology to collect Indigenous cultural fishing data, which it is hoped will form the basis of further research into cultural fishing across New South Wales.

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Characterisation of abalone herpes-like virus infections in abalone

Project number: 2009-032.20
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $265,002.00
Principal Investigator: Mark S. Crane
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2009 - 29 Jun 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Need

At the National Abalone Health Workplan Priority Setting Workshop held on 18 June 2008 in Melbourne, attended by representatives from DPI Victoria, SARDI, FRDC, VADA, TAC, EZAIA), AAGA, ACA, CSIRO, DPIW Tasmania, RecFish, DAFF and NSW DPI, it was agreed that to address the main epidemiological questions research should be focussed on 4 areas:
1) Development of diagnostics techniques with the highest priorities being:
- Technique to isolate and concentrate the virus from abalone tissues (addressed in FRDC Project 2007/006)
- A rapid and specific diagnostic test-development of a validated PCR-test for the AVG virus (addressed in FRDC Project 2007/006)
- Secondary diagnostic test (ISH development addressed in FRDC Project 2007/006)
- Validation of diagnostic tests (partly addressed in proposed extension of FRDC Project 2007/006 (PCR) and this project (ISH validation))
- Rollout of diagnostic tests across the States (addressed in proposed extension of FRDC Project 2007/006)
- Distribution of infective dose in tissues (to be addressed by this proposal)
2) Disease aetiology and transmission with the highest priorities being:
- Other bio-vectors and abiotic factors (to be addressed by this proposal)
- Determination of the susceptibility of remnant populations following exposure to AVG (to be addressed by this proposal)
3) Virus inactivation with the highest priorities being:
- Determine the viability of the AVG virus, including disinfection efficacy; efficacy of treatments (to be addressed by this proposal)
- Survival of the virus in seawater (to be addressed by this proposal)
- Survival of the virus on fomites (to be addressed by this proposal)
4) Disease surveillance and modelling with the highest priorities being:
- National survey of stocks to determine current distribution of the virus, including latency, and resistance status of stocks (partly addressed by this proposal)
- Determine the mode(s) of spread of the AVG (not addressed)

Objectives

1. Validate the developed in situ hybridisation diagnostic test including roll out to other States
2. Develop a quantitative assay (qPCR) for determining infectious dose for this virus
3. Determine the sensitivity of the virus to physico-chemical conditions including its stability in water/on fomites and its sensitivity to inactivation agents
4. Determine the role of mucus in viral transmission
5. Determine whether a latent stage exists in AVG
6. Determine the susceptibility of remnant populations of abalone previously exposed to AVG and known unexposed wild populations in South Australia
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