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PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-149
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

International environmental instruments: their effect on the fishing industry (part 2)

This is the second edition of the FRDC project international environmental instruments-their effect on the fishing industry. The need for this project was identified in 1994 by the fisheries policy unit of the Department of Primary Industry and Energy (DPIE, now Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry -...
ORGANISATION:
AMC Search Ltd
TAGS
Trade
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Policy
Fisheries Management
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-050
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Linking habitat mapping with fisheries assessment in key commercial fishing grounds

The Tasmanian commercial fishery for blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra) and greenlip abalone (H. laevigata) contributes a significant component of the total Australian abalone catch, with annual landings of around 2590 tonnes in 2003. The catch consists primarily of blacklip abalone (around...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
TAGS
Survey
Remote Sensing
Habitat
Fisheries Management
Ecosystem
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-234
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

National commercial fishing industry response to changes to the USL code

In the drafting of the new national safety standards, ASIC considered it an imperative that the industry's interests should be acknowledged and not dominated by other and perhaps more vocal sectors of the broader maritime industry. ASIC sought therefore to instigate a process that would result in a...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
TAGS
Workshop

Indigenous fishing subprogram: Building the Capacity and Performance of Indigenous Fisheries

Project number: 2013-218
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $230,000.00
Principal Investigator: Ewan A. Colquhoun
Organisation: Ridge Partners
Project start/end date: 30 Apr 2013 - 17 Jul 2016
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Indigenous
Fisheries Management
Economic
Community

Need

Wild capture fisheries are a national asset. They contribute in two ways: USE as a social, cultural or economic asset, AND value created through people and MANAGEMENT systems guiding that use. Aquaculture is an increasingly important seafood source offering potential across all sectors.

The IRG's RD&E Strategy contains 5 Aspirations, 11 Principles and related Outputs. Their comprehensive, integrated approach provides a single framework that offers a key role for all stakeholders, locally and nationally.

The IRG's Strategy will be successful only when it resolves key challenges, including:
- poor understanding and awareness of the needs of indigenous fishery users, and their monitoring of progress toward social/cultural/economic aspirations they aspire to,
- lack of capacity (human, management, structural) of fishers and communities to respond to and benefit from this Strategy,
- lack of alignment between customary sea management practices, enterprise profit motives, social/cultural/economic drivers for community viability, and government practices,
- the diversity of indigenous fisheries, across cultures, geography, aquatic environments, species and economic opportunities.

The Strategy must:
- create a viable pathway forward,
- increase fishery value in the hands of users, and
- better align government policy and process. This will require a policy and regulatory gap analysis and review options to better align these with traditional sea management approaches.

Change will take time - but outputs must demonstrate increasing value (social/cultural/economic) to fishers and communities.

The Project Team will partner with 4-5 indigenous fishery communities to consult and understand their fisheries, aspirations, needs, capacities and alignment with social/cultural/economic factors. The Team will respond with actions that aim to boost fishery value. Local case studies will inform national approaches and about what works, when and where.

The project will cost effectively create new tools, structures, alignments, data, and capacities, in the hands of the IRG, indigenous fishers and communities.

Objectives

1. Identify 4-5 Case Study fishing communities, and work with IRG and stakeholders to document aspirations and social/cultural/economic capacity, identify constraints to achieving desired community and national development outcomes, and test/trial micro development pathways.
2. Evaluate models (enterprise/management), conduct gap analyses (policy/regulatory), and synthesize and document preferred development pathways (national/regional) to enhance indigenous access to, participation in, and benefits (social/cultural/economic) from fishery development.
3. Establish and document output and extension strategies (3yr + 5yr) for the IRG (national) and each participating regional indigenous fishing community.
4. Document and report learnings (IRG + case studies), models, performance monitoring arrangements, and recommendations to the IRG that will enhance future indigenous fishery performance and community benefits

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9871427-6-4
Author: Ewan Colquhoun
Final Report • 2018-09-21 • 6.22 MB
2013-218-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group, an advisory committee to the FRDC for matters related to Indigenous fishery research, development and extension (R&D).
 
The project sought to build the capacity and performance of Australia’s Indigenous fisheries. It identified issues and drivers, and describes methods, means, outputs and outcomes to enhance fishery capacity and performance.
 
This report summary comprises four parts:
  1. Review of the economic framework that impacts Indigenous community and fishery development

    The starting point for the project was the IRG’s RD&E Framework for Indigenous fishery development. This framework of eleven key R&D Principles and five national and community aspirations, is grounded in a vision to enable continuous improvement, rising from Primacy to Capacity Building.

    This is the pathway to achieve sustainable increases in the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, collectively and for individual communities. Indigenous communities will be the immediate and primary beneficiaries of this vision fulfilled.

  2. Issues and drivers for Indigenous fisheries
    The project has identified issues that impact the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, and related drivers of uncertainty and change.
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  3. Conclusions regarding business models to support economic development
    Project design called for 4-5 case studies that would represent the national Indigenous community fishery cohort, meet project objectives, and inform the IRG and RD&E decision makers.
    Guided by the IRG, the project team has engaged seven case study fishery communities in face-to-face consultations regarding fishery status, capacity, performance, models, aspirations, economic development options, and analyses and reporting.

  4. Recommendations to the IRG/FRDC regarding measures and actions to build the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries.
The project team recommends the IRG consider the following actions:
  1. Implement a plan to identify Indigenous fishery communities across Australia that hold exclusive or non-exclusive rights to, and control of underutilised fishery resources.
  2. Encourage Indigenous fishery communities that seek to develop their fishery resources, to establish at least one community corporation registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
  3. Encourage each Indigenous fishery community (including local residents and remote TOs and members) to undertake a formal planning process
  4. Encourage community to identify commercial partners, networks and collaborations
  5. Empower Indigenous fishery community leaders to attend, contribute to and learn
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-106
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identifying electronic platforms to increase safety at sea in the Australian commercial fishing fleet

Maintaining safety at sea requires a multi-faceted and complex system including coordinating vessel integrity and the carriage of the correct equipment, the provision of accurate information on weather and sea conditions, the training of the crew and managing their actions at sea. ...
ORGANISATION:
Diversity Sustainable Development Consultants Pty Ltd
TAGS
Software
Health And Safety
Fishing Technology
Fisheries Management
Communications
SPECIES
Prawns

Capitalising on the talents of women in the South Australian fishing and seafood industry

Project number: 1997-348
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $4,600.00
Principal Investigator: June Gill
Organisation: Women in Seafood Australasia (WISA)
Project start/end date: 28 Jun 1998 - 30 Dec 1998
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Stakeholder
Fisheries Management
Community

Need

The formation and subsequent development of WIN has been a major new initiative for the South Australian fishing and seafood industry. Having had a successful first 16 months of operation, the time is right to review and focus WIN with an aim of expanding the member base to include a broader cross section of the fishing industry.

Strategic planning is essential if this organisation is to provide benefits to individuals within the fishing and seafood industry, and the industry as a whole. Without planning for the future, the full potential of such an organisation will not be realised and members and the industry may become disillusioned about WIN's ability to achieve its goals.

This proposal aims to strengthen WIN by broadening and focussing its membership base and to prepare a plan for the future as an organisation. As part of this, there is a need to identify the strengths of WIN and focus these towards attaining its objectives. The project will also investigate ways of linking fisheries related agencies, organisations and associations with WIN to assist in this strategic planning for the South Australian fishing and seafood industry.

Women within this industry have often been the isolated and invisible partners. However, by working together industry may benefit from the diverse talents of these women. Following the establishment of networks and increasing the industry’s awareness of WIN over the past 16 months, WIN is now in a position to become focussed on what it is aiming to achieve and prepare a plan for achieving this. The result will be the development of a valuable resource for the state's fishing and seafood industry.

Objectives

1. To build on the existing network of women within the South Australian fishing and seafood industry.
2. To increase the level of communication between members of the Women's Industry Network
3. To develop a level of ownership of WIN among the women of the South Australian fishing and seafood industry.
4. To develop a plan for future directions for WIN.
5. To identify and develop the skills of women in the South Australian fishing and seafood industry.
6. To determine the role of WIN in relation to other agencies and organisations in South Australia.
7. To produce an action plan for the future operations of WIN.

Final report

Author: Samara Miller
Final Report • 2017-09-29 • 6.40 MB
1997-348-DLD.pdf

Driving innovation in environmental performance in the Queensland fishing industry

Project number: 2003-062
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $80,000.00
Principal Investigator: Daryl McPhee
Organisation: James Cook University (JCU)
Project start/end date: 25 May 2003 - 20 Jun 2006
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workforce
Sustainability
Stakeholder
Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing

Need

Environmental performance will be one of the most important drivers of future fishing industry profitability. There is a growing recognition amongst the industry's grass roots that long-term profitability will require maintainence of existing resource and market access - access that is only possible with improved environmental performance and demonstrated triple bottom line sustainability.

Projects that assist in motivating and demonstrating continual improvement in the industry's environmental performance are clearly within industry's interest, and will assist in increasing community and consumer confidence in the sustainability of wild capture fisheries.

Methodologies to assist in motivating and demonstrating continual environmental improvement in the seafood industry have been the subject of significant investment at the policy level but remain largely unimplemented on the ground at broad scale. This project aims to roll out 'green chooser' (FRDC 2000/146) derived EMS methodologies across two broad scale pilot project areas both subject to a high degree of community scrutiny (Moreton Bay, Cairns inshore fishery). In doing so the project will 'road test' the existing green chooser EMS model and refine it where necessary to ensure it is relevant to the needs of grass roots industry.

In addition, improvement of incentives for adoption of best practice will greatly assist industry environmental performance while providing significant opportunities to reduce management and compliance costs. In the long-term, the project aims to improve overall industry profitability by assisting Queensland fishers demonstrate the benefits of low cost and high performance co-management arrangements.

For collaborative agencies involved fisheries regulation there is a strong recognition that EMS can provide reform mechanisms which are industry driven. Further, for these agencies the project provides an alternate tool to demonstrate that state (e.g. QFS), national and international (e.g. Environment Australia) sustainability obligations are being met. Moreover, the proposed project can offer relevant agencies the opportunity to further streamline, co-ordinate and integrate parallel programs (incl. extension & compliance) at fisher level. These needs are reflected in the high number of collaborative agencies involved in the project.

The recently released mid-review findings of the Seafood Industry Training Package Review recommend a stronger emphasis on environmental awareness and promotion of ESD and environmental management throughout the training package - a need which is also reflected in the Seafood Training Australia’s Strategic Training Plan for 2001-2002.

The proposed project can operationally deliver QFIRAC and FRDC priorities, as envisaged by the FRDC's Environmental Management Systems Initiative (FRDC Project 2000/084). FRDC, in creating its EMS initiative has allocated funds to ensure the persons employed under this initiative and associated industry champions are appropriately trained for their roles. The proposed project can further value add and extend both current (e.g. FRDC 2002/303) and previous research investments (e.g. FRDC 2000/146).

Objectives

1. To develop and implement two EMS projects for industry participants that will have utility for the fishing industry throughout Queensland.
2. To further refine the existing Green Chooser EMS methodology with a focus on identifying and overcoming any impediments to on-ground implementation.
3. To improve awareness of the triple-bottom line benefits of EMS amongst both the seafood industry and broader community in the pilot regions.
4. To provide EMS project officers, industry champions and industry participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to optimally carry out their roles and responsibilities.
5. To establish a grass roots culture amongst pilot regions of continual improvement in environmental performance, and to motivate the development of an industry-driven framework to demonstrate ongoing improvements in environmental performance post the life of the project.

Final report

ISBN: 1-8649985-6-3
Author: Daryl McPhee
Final Report • 2006-08-24 • 3.32 MB
2003-062-DLD.pdf

Summary

In response to the success of the Green Chooser Case Studies (FRDC 2000-146) carried out in Queensland from 2000 – 2002 (the Rock Lobster Association and the Gulf of Carpentaria Commercial Fishermen), the Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) sought funding to trial the development of large scale Environmental Management Systems (EMSs).

The QSIA obtained expressions of interest from two regional professional fishing industry associations – the Moreton Bay Seafood Industry Association (MBSIA) and Ecofish of far north Queensland. This coincided with the creation of a National Seafood EMS Program, building on the Green Chooser studies, with the aim of trialing the development of full EMSs within regions or fisheries. This pilot program was funded by the Natural Heritage Trust (NHT), administered by the Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and was coordinated by Seafood Services Australia (SSA). 

The QSIA achieved a grant from NHT to establish a pilot EMS study in Queensland, which formed part of the National Seafood EMS Program. In order to trial EMS at a large scale within Queensland, a partnership approach to funding the project was employed. The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (QEPA), the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (QDPI&F), the QSIA, MBISA and Ecofish became the primary funding/support bodies for the project in addition to SSA.

The scope of the project was set so that two pilot project groups were established in Queensland. One group was affiliated with Ecofish and positioned in far north Queensland. The other was tied to the MBSIA and located in Moreton Bay (south-east Queensland). The original FRDC contract stipulated that two EMS officers would facilitate the development of EMSs, with one officer based in each region.

Keywords: Environmental Management Systems, Ecologically Sustainable Development, natural resource management, fisheries, commercial fishing.

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