1,683 results
People
Industry

Empowering Industry: Improving two-way membership communication in peak industry bodies of the fishing and seafood industry

Project number: 2011-400
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $167,500.00
Principal Investigator: Jill Briggs
Organisation: Affectus Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 20 Jul 2011 - 29 Oct 2013
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The seafood industry is comprised of national, state, regional and sector organisations all of whom have a "client group" with which two-way communication and connection is anticipated. It is also noted that industry organisations have identified the need to improve lines of communication between industry associations and their members as being critical for many associations survival.

Industry organisations have articulated the issues that impact on their associations'/organisations effectiveness and which they believe should be researched and could be addressed through improved and coordinated communication strategies via a research project.

The identified issues are:

• Defining how organisations are relevant and what value is being offered to members;
• Lack of clarity as to what ‘product’ is being offered;
• A lack of clarity as to what associations' key messages are for their members and broader industry;
• A disjunct between the message being sent by groups and those receiving it;
• Misunderstanding of what is being said amongst many competing messages;
• Different priorities at top and bottom of associations' organisational structures;
• Confusion amongst members as to who’s who and why. What do the different levels of organisations do? What representation do or don’t they have?
• All of the above were made more difficult by a general lack of support and funding for associations.

No one group has the resources or skills set to address all of these issues, but the issues were common across all sectors and jurisdictions and a cooperative approach was considered to be possible and beneficial.

Objectives

1. Complete a communication audit to gain an understanding of what generic tools are already available to suit associations' communication needs.
2. Assist peak associations to clearly define their roles and responsibilities and develop an understanding of what their key ‘selling proposition’ is to members.
3. Clarify association members/audience, identify shared members and identify opportunities and methods to minimise duplication and maximise information exchange
4. Based on previous objectives, specifically modify and tailor communication techniques to improve communication and membership support in six case-study associations.
5. Extend project outcomes on a national basis

Project products

Brochure • 2014-02-27 • 575.45 KB
2011-400 Communication Guide - Empowering Industry Two-Way Communication Project.pdf

Summary

Brochure describing Two-Way Communication for peak industry bodies.  Has nice diagrams.
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-313
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Collaborative partnership for farming and fishing health and safety

The Collaborative partnership for farming and fishing health and safety is funded by RIRDC, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Sugar Research and Development Corporation and Cotton...
ORGANISATION:
AgriFutures Australia
Industry

Prototype fishing industry mobile training unit

Project number: 1982-045
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: National Fishing Industry Training Council
Project start/end date: 27 Jun 1983 - 29 Jun 1983
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Outfit a mobile training unit to research & evaluate concept of promotional-type training in remote areas
2. develop concept of product awareness training programs to obtain best performance from equipment
3. stimulate acquisition of skills by incremental awareness of training assistance.

International environmental instruments and actions - Their effects on the fishing industry

Project number: 1994-135
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $39,690.00
Principal Investigator: Martin Tsamenyi AM
Organisation: University of Wollongong
Project start/end date: 3 Sep 1994 - 11 Sep 1996
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Identify, describe and analyse, from an Australian fishing industry perspective, the major aspects of relevant international environmental instruments that impact or have the potential to impact on the fishing industry
2. Prepare a concise plain language report on current developments in relevant international fora, paying particular attention to (but not exclusively) developments in GATT, FAO and the OECD
3. Prepare a concise plain language report on current developments in relevant international fora, paying particular attention to (but not exclusively) developments in GATT, FAO and the OECD
4. Identify and analyse the key areas of potential action and any Australian fisherieslikely to be affected
5. Analyse the operational, fisheries management, legal and foreign policy implications of any action under international instruments
6. Identify strategies, both domestic and international, to avert or minimise any imact or potential impact on particular fisheries
7. Identify opportunities for the Australian fishing industry in adhering to international instruments

Final report

Author: Martin Tsamenyi Alistair McIlgorm
Final Report • 1995-10-18 • 2.89 MB
1994-135-DLD.pdf

Summary

Throughout the world, the fishing industry has come under increased pressure to comply with environmental requirements. This pressure has been prompted by scientific evidence that most of the world's commercial fisheries stock have either been over-fished or are in danger of over­exploitation beyond their sustainable levels. This development must be seen in a wider international context. Since the past decade or so, there has been an intensification of international environmental consciousness with many international governmental organisations and non-governmental organisations putting pressure on governments to develop legal frameworks to achieve environmental protection at the international level. Consequently, a number of international environmental instruments have been negotiated in response to this new international environmental consciousness.

At the same time some individual countries, notably the United States of America, in response to domestic pressure from conservation groups and its powerful domestic fishing industry, has enacted a number of domestic legislation to impose certain conservation standards on the fishing industry. The implementation of these legislation also have significant international trade implications for the fishing industry.

The international environmental instruments affecting fisheries fall into two broad categories. The first category are those which may be described as treaties or conventions. They are legally binding on the parties to them. Some of these instruments are directly aimed at the fishing industry, whilst some are of general application but with potential implications for the fishing industry. In the second category are the so called "soft law" instruments which are resolutions or declarations by international organisations.

The broad findings of this report are that the objectives of fisheries management such as "conservation" and "optimum utilisation" of fisheries resources are stated in many binding instruments whilst the second wave of instruments which fall into the category of "soft" law, are more fisheries problem specific for example, protecting species, restoration, banning of specific gear, minimising bycatch and specific actions in management plans. The trend identified is that international environmental instruments relating to the fishing industry are moving from general objectives in currently binding instruments to more specific constraints and management methods in subsequent "soft law" instruments. The study also finds that the tightening of environmental constraints in fisheries management will be gradual, though the diversity of issues make the time for implementation of policies uncertain. These restraints will undoubtedly translate into more prescriptive legislation in respect of Turtle Exclusion Devices (TEDs or Trawling Efficiency Devices), fishing practices, closed areas, and species specific bans.

The report identified a number of internal and external strategic questions for the fishing industry in response to the growing international environmental instruments.

Environment
Adoption
View Filter

Species

Organisation