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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1981-056
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Application of satellite real-time sea surface temperature data to the tuna, salmon and pilchard fisheries

This is the final report for FIRTA project 1981-056. The principal objective has been to study the application of real-time satellite-derived sea surface temperature measurements in assisting particular fisheries located in southern waters of Australia. Initially proposed for a three year period...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
TAGS
Remote Sensing
Oceanography
Modelling
Data
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-220
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: Spatial management of southern rock lobster fisheries to improve yield, value and sustainability

(1) To enable assessment reporting of trends in biomass and egg production by depth. (2) To evaluate separate deep-water quota to increase yield and egg production. (3) To evaluate regional size limits in Tasmania for increase in yield and egg production. (4) To conduct field...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Stakeholder
Profitability
Fishing Technology
Energy
Energy
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-178
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Species identification of Australia’s most significant octopus fishery – the Western Australian Common Octopus

This report summarises the scientific and consultation work undertaken to identify a new species name (Octopus djinda) and new common name (Western Rock Octopus) for the species that supports Australia’s largest octopus fishery, with 734 tonnes harvested in 2022. The species had been...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Rac Wa
Market Opportunities
Fishing Gear
SPECIES
Octopuses
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-155
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Modelling Western Australian fisheries with techniques of time series analysis: examining data from a different perspective

The management of fisheries in Western Australia requires an understanding of the status of the fisheries stocks. For many species, the only available data are catch, effort and CPUE history. For these and other fisheries, time series methods may improve the stock assessment methods. Biological...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
Modelling
Fishing Effort
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-108
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Definition of effective spawning stocks of commercial tiger prawns in the NPF and king prawns in the eastern king prawn fishery: behaviour of post-larval prawns

To effectively manage most fisheries, including penaeid prawn fisheries in northern and eastern Australia, it is important to know the relationship between the size of the spawning population and the number of young adults that recruit to a fishery in the next generation. In the tiger prawn fishery...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
Reproduction
Oceanography
Modelling
Migration
SPECIES
King Prawns
Tiger Prawns
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-039
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Interim monitoring of the 1995 eastern gemfish spawning run

Historically, monitoring of the eastern gemfish stock has been based on sampling at NSW fish markets, and carried out by NSW Fisheries Research Institute as part of its NSWs management responsibilities for the fishery. With the advent of AFMA, however, responsibility for monitoring of the fishery...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Cleveland
TAGS
Workshop
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Market Opportunities
Fishing Effort
Industry

National Guidelines to develop fishery harvest strategies

Project number: 2010-061
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $135,000.00
Principal Investigator: Sean R. Sloan
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
Project start/end date: 3 Jan 2011 - 13 Jan 2012
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workshop
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Social Science
Social Science

Need

There is need for a coordinated, nationally consistent approach to developing harvest strategies for Australian fisheries. The Commonwealth Harvest Strategies Policy and Guidelines (2007) provide a foundation for harvest strategy development in Commonwealth managed fisheries. AFMF has identified the need to build upon these strategies to encompass fisheries managed by both Commonwealth and State Governments. The proposed project will deliver an agreed set of overarching principles for Harvest Strategies across Australia.

Presently, the key elements of harvest strategies (defined objectives, indicators, assessments, reference points, trigger points and decision rules) vary in their implementation across jurisdictions. There are also gaps for some mixed sector fisheries where recreational or indigenous sectors dominate and/or commercial fisheries have low data.

The AFMF, in consultation with FRDC, recognise:
- There is a common objective of ESD across jurisdictions
- Harvest Strategies need to balance flexibility (to allow for changing circumstances) with providing certainty for how a fishery will be managed
- Harvest Strategies for shared/straddling stocks need further consideration and collaboration across jurisdictions to enhance stock management and data sharing
- A multi-jurisdictional harvest strategy for a shared stock will assist fisheries managers, industry and others with facilitating trade between states and managing the impacts of climate change.
- There are common challenges across jurisdictions to develop and apply harvest strategies in data poor fisheries; and incorporating non-commercial sectors into harvest strategies.
- Further work is required to include economic goals and indicators in harvest strategies, and subsequently on economic data collection
- Further work is required to identify recreational and social objectives and indicators.

The proposed project will focus on components of fisheries management considered less developed than other areas. These areas are:
- Cross-jurisdictional fisheries management arrangements
- Recreational fisheries management arrangements
- Incorporating triple bottom line analysis into fisheries management decision-making

Objectives

1. Undertake a review and analysis of present situation of harvest strategies in Commonwealth and State managed fisheries
2. Develop a common definition for nationally consistent harvest strategies
3. Develop an agreed set of over-arching principles for Harvest Strategies across Australia.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9807387-9-7
Author: Sean Sloan
Final Report • 2014-03-05 • 3.20 MB
2010-061-DLD.pdf

Summary

Harvest strategies offer an effective fisheries management tool to integrate the ecological, social and economic dimensions of fisheries management into a single framework for fisheries management decision making. As evidenced by their wide use internationally and throughout Australian fisheries management jurisdictions, harvest strategies represent a best-practice approach to fisheries management decision making (FAO 2011; Smith et al. 2013; McIlgorm 2013).

The National Guidelines aim to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonized approach across fisheries throughout Australia. The National Guidelines aim to help inform policy makers involved in the development of over-arching harvest strategy policies and assist in ensuring a national best-practice approach to the development of such policies. A national approach to harvest strategy development will enable common challenges to be addressed in a consistent and coordinated manner, thereby avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort and resources, and ensuring more targeted investment in ways to address common challenges.

Project products

Brochure • 1.14 MB
2010-061-PDT-1.pdf

Summary

The National Guidelines to Develop Fishery Harvest Strategies Project aimed to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonised approach across fisheries throughout Australia. This is a summary of the final report. 
Final Report • 2014-03-05 • 3.20 MB
2010-061-DLD.pdf

Summary

Harvest strategies offer an effective fisheries management tool to integrate the ecological, social and economic dimensions of fisheries management into a single framework for fisheries management decision making. As evidenced by their wide use internationally and throughout Australian fisheries management jurisdictions, harvest strategies represent a best-practice approach to fisheries management decision making (FAO 2011; Smith et al. 2013; McIlgorm 2013).

The National Guidelines aim to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonized approach across fisheries throughout Australia. The National Guidelines aim to help inform policy makers involved in the development of over-arching harvest strategy policies and assist in ensuring a national best-practice approach to the development of such policies. A national approach to harvest strategy development will enable common challenges to be addressed in a consistent and coordinated manner, thereby avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort and resources, and ensuring more targeted investment in ways to address common challenges.

Brochure • 1.14 MB
2010-061-PDT-1.pdf

Summary

The National Guidelines to Develop Fishery Harvest Strategies Project aimed to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonised approach across fisheries throughout Australia. This is a summary of the final report. 
Final Report • 2014-03-05 • 3.20 MB
2010-061-DLD.pdf

Summary

Harvest strategies offer an effective fisheries management tool to integrate the ecological, social and economic dimensions of fisheries management into a single framework for fisheries management decision making. As evidenced by their wide use internationally and throughout Australian fisheries management jurisdictions, harvest strategies represent a best-practice approach to fisheries management decision making (FAO 2011; Smith et al. 2013; McIlgorm 2013).

The National Guidelines aim to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonized approach across fisheries throughout Australia. The National Guidelines aim to help inform policy makers involved in the development of over-arching harvest strategy policies and assist in ensuring a national best-practice approach to the development of such policies. A national approach to harvest strategy development will enable common challenges to be addressed in a consistent and coordinated manner, thereby avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort and resources, and ensuring more targeted investment in ways to address common challenges.

Brochure • 1.14 MB
2010-061-PDT-1.pdf

Summary

The National Guidelines to Develop Fishery Harvest Strategies Project aimed to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonised approach across fisheries throughout Australia. This is a summary of the final report. 
Final Report • 2014-03-05 • 3.20 MB
2010-061-DLD.pdf

Summary

Harvest strategies offer an effective fisheries management tool to integrate the ecological, social and economic dimensions of fisheries management into a single framework for fisheries management decision making. As evidenced by their wide use internationally and throughout Australian fisheries management jurisdictions, harvest strategies represent a best-practice approach to fisheries management decision making (FAO 2011; Smith et al. 2013; McIlgorm 2013).

The National Guidelines aim to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonized approach across fisheries throughout Australia. The National Guidelines aim to help inform policy makers involved in the development of over-arching harvest strategy policies and assist in ensuring a national best-practice approach to the development of such policies. A national approach to harvest strategy development will enable common challenges to be addressed in a consistent and coordinated manner, thereby avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort and resources, and ensuring more targeted investment in ways to address common challenges.

Brochure • 1.14 MB
2010-061-PDT-1.pdf

Summary

The National Guidelines to Develop Fishery Harvest Strategies Project aimed to provide practical technical assistance to all government fisheries management agencies in Australia (State, Territory and Commonwealth) to develop fishery-specific harvest strategies and to facilitate a consistent and more harmonised approach across fisheries throughout Australia. This is a summary of the final report. 
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2021-049
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing and testing a cultural change process in the NSW wild harvest sector: a case study to facilitate a process towards co-management in the NSW Northern Fish Trawl

The Australian and NSW seafood industry has been impacted by several unrelated disrupters that challenges the efficacy of current business models and culture to support business success now and into the future. These and other disruptors are also creating challenges to the approaches taken by and...
ORGANISATION:
Strategic Journeys
TAGS
Rac Nsw
Co-Management
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-008
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessing the impact of marine seismic surveys on southeast Australian scallop and lobster fisheries

The present study, undertaken by University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in conjunction with Curtin University’s Centre for Marine Science and Technology, was developed to investigate the potential impact of seismic surveys on economically important fishery...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Seismic
Modelling
Education
Analytics
Ageing
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Commercial Scallop
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