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Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-078
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fishing for change: A social marketing approach to reduce the recreational harvest of Snapper and Pearl Perch in Queensland

The ‘Fishing for Change’ project used a social marketing approach that engaged stakeholders to codesign, implement and evaluate solutions to voluntarily change people’s recreational fishing behaviour.
ORGANISATION:
Currie Communications
Communities
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-120
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessing the effectiveness of IRG R&D projects to deliver change

This project assesses the effectiveness of FRDC IRG projects to deliver change. Using two previous FRDC IRG funded projects as case studies, the assessment evaluates the impact of research and capacity building on Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants. This is vital for advancing both strengths...
ORGANISATION:
Land to Sea Consulting
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-010
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Understanding recruitment collapse of juvenile abalone in the Eastern Zone Abalone fishery – development of pre-recruitment monitoring, simulation of recruitment variation and predicting the impact of climate variation

Over the past three decades the Tasmanian Eastern Zone Abalone Fishery has experienced several fluctuations in catch and catch rates of Blacklip Abalone as well as environmental perturbations, which may be affecting productivity. The capacity to measure inter-annual variation in Blacklip Abalone...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-027
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluating the recreational marron fishery against environmental change and human interactions

The distribution of marron in the southwest of Australia has seen many changes since European settlement. Reconstructions of their range from historical records suggested that marron inhabited the waters between the Harvey River and Denmark River. Due to translocation, their range has expanded as...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
SPECIES

Sponsorship for 2010 Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference and Symposium

Project number: 2010-301
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $20,000.00
Principal Investigator: Jarod Lyon
Organisation: Australian Society For Fish Biology Inc
Project start/end date: 27 May 2010 - 30 Nov 2010
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The ASFB Annual Conference is the key opportunity for Fisheries Managers, Researchers, Academics ans Students to come together to discuss issues relating to Fisheries resources and conservation. In particular, the 2010 Conference and Symposium will focus on emerging issues in relation to Climate Change.

While there is a lot of general talk on climate change, this symposium aims to present some credible science and predictions that can be used as a synopsis of the likely impacts on fish and fisheries.

There are likely to be significant climate change impacts on the biological, economic, and social aspects of Australian fisheries and that there is little consolidated knowledge of the potential impacts of climate change. Both positive and negative impacts are expected, and impacts will vary according to changes in the regional environment: south-east fisheries are most likely to be affected by changes in water temperature, northern fisheries by changes in precipitation, and western fisheries by changes in the Leeuwin Current.

There may be new opportunities for some wild fisheries where tropical species shift southward. There will also be many challenges, (such as that faced by the Tasmanian salmon aquaculture industry due to Atlantic salmon being cultivated close to their upper thermal limits of optimal growth). Nevertheless, it is important that there is potential for adaptation measures to be employed by the industry.

There is a need for fisheries and aquaculture management policies to better integrate the effects of climate variability and climate change in establishing harvest levels and developing future strategies. This will enhance the resilience of marine biodiversity and the adaptive capacity of the fisheries and aquaculture industries.

Please refer to the conference sponsorship brochure (attached) to determine if there is an appropriate category for FRDC.

Objectives

1. Provide a key opportunity for researchers, managers, industry, users and, in particular students to network over emerging issues on Fisheries
2. Provide a forum to discuss techniques for investigating the impacts of climate change on population parameters, distribution, migration, production, and/OR abundance of fish and shellfish in capture and cultured fisheries and on food web processes supporting fish and shellfish
3. Provide an opportunity for scientists to discuss their observational, analytical and modelling approaches with other research teams in order to stimulate methodological improvements
4. Allow experts to identify analytical techniques needed to reliably forecast climate change impacts on freshwater and marine fish and shellfish populations including methods for quantifying the uncertainty in projections and ways to address the uncertainty in policy and management
5. Allow managers from diverse disciplines to discuss policies and strategies for society and users of fish resources to consider in the face of a changing climate and altered ecosystems
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