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Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-005
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

RAC WA: The application, needs, costs and benefits of Habitat Enhancement Structures in Western Australia and cost effective monitoring methods

Habitat Enhancement Structures (HES) developments are increasing in Australia and worldwide providing many benefits to the environment and different user groups. With this rapid growth there are still large knowledge gaps evident in relation to HES. This project investigated the application, needs,...
ORGANISATION:
Recfishwest
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-501
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Empowering recreational fishers as champions of healthy fish habitat

From 2016 to 2018, recreational fishers across Australia focussed their attention on fish habitat as part of the project, Empowering recreational fishers as champions of healthy fish habitat. Fish habitat throughout Australia is in trouble. Progressive degradation of fish habitat has occurred since...
ORGANISATION:
OzFish Unlimited

The 4th International Fisheries Observer Conference

Project number: 2004-306
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $20,000.00
Principal Investigator: Steve J. Kennelly
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date: 30 May 2004 - 30 Jun 2005
Contact:
FRDC

Need

By-catch from fishing methods is one of the most significant issues facing the world’s fisheries. Over the past decade or so, researchers in Australia, the US and Canada have been quite successful at reducing some of the more serious by-catch problems, particularly those concerning the huge discarding and wastage problems associated with trawling. Various projects have shown that the most effective way of reducing discards is to follow a staged scientific protocol involving: (i) identifying and quantifying by-catches to determine places and times of particularly problematic by-catches and (ii) doing experimental tests of modified fishing practices that reduce the identified by-catches. The ONLY way to achieve the first, quantification stage accurately is to have scientific observers going out on typical fishing trips to record information on catches and discards (these are termed Observer Programmes). Significant advances in identifying and quantifying by-catches have been made in several countries, including Australia, the US and Canada through Observer Programmes. As well as quantifying bycatches and discarding, Observer Programmes have proven invaluable in providing information on levels of compliance of commercial fisheries to regulations and codes of conduct. They also provide excellent material for biological work on species that would otherwise be very expensive or problematic to collect (e.g. gut contents, sizes, age information, otoliths etc.), operational information on fleet dynamics and changes in fishing effort. Such programmes are also increasingly being used as on-deck extension and educational services, teaching fishers first-hand about a range of scientific, compliance and management issues.

In 1998, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the United States’ NOAA Fisheries sponsored the first of a series of biennial international conferences on Fisheries Observer Programmes. This series of conferences (previously held in Seattle, St. Johns and New Orleans) brings together the key stakeholder groups, scientists, technicians and managers responsible for the design, management and safe delivery of at-sea fisheries observer programs throughout the world. It provides the main international forum to address the many facets of these very important data-gathering programmes. NSW Fisheries has been successful in the bid to host the 4th International Fisheries Observer Conference in Sydney in November 2004.

The hosting of this conference in Sydney has been discussed and endorsed at the last 3 meetings of the AFMF Research Committee.

Objectives

1. To bring together a broad representation from the international fisheries community to address most of the key issues concerning the establishment, execution and use of fisheries observer programs.
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-063
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

WRL Communication, Education and Engagement Program

This report encapsulates the achievements and outcomes of the Western Rock Lobster Council's (WRL) Communication, Education, and Engagement Program (Project 2022-063), which aimed to enhance community understanding, trust, and acceptance of the Western Rock Lobster industry. Through innovative...
ORGANISATION:
Western Rock Lobster Council Inc (WRLC)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-037
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Assessment of inshore habitats around Tasmania for life history stages of commercial finfish species

In Tasmania, there is a paucity of information on the life-history, population parameters and habitat requirements of fish associated with inshore soft-sediment habitats, particularly seagrasses. Clearly, such information is needed before stock assessment models can be developed, recruitment...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Adoption
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-412
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

ACPF IPA: Australian wild caught prawn sector RD&E management and communication

This project enabled the Australian Council of Prawn Fishers to coordinate, commission and extend its RD&E investments under the 2016 2020 Industry Partnership Agreement with FRDC. The report documents the process and plans behind each of the IPA’s programs: Community...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries Ltd (ACPF)

Educating though Escape with ET

Project number: 2011-516
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $200,000.00
Principal Investigator: Lisa Campbell
Organisation: Escape Productions Group
Project start/end date: 17 May 2009 - 29 Jun 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Communication and extension has been identified by the board as an activity on which more work should be undertaken.

In particular the last three AOP's for FRDC identified under Challenge 5: Community and consumer support two key priorities:
• Educate the community about fisheries and aquaculture management and its contribution to Australia.
• Communicate the benefits of government and industry investment in R&D.

To deliver key messages to the broader community, television is widely recogised as a powerful, albeit costly, tool. Escape with ET provides a cost effective vehicle to reach not only recreational fishers but those in the community that are interested in a wider range of activities and pursuits.

Over the course of Series 9 and 10, FRDC has helped produce over 35 individual stories on R&D ranging from release fish survival through to Australian Salmon and Southern Rocklobster which has been seen by a cumalitive audience of over 18,000,000.

Objectives

1. to educate the broader community on best practice handling techniques for recreational fishing
2. provide the public with science based information that will allow them to make educated decisions regarding the maintenance of Australia’s ecosystems and associated fish stocks
3. provide science based information to community to inform their opinions
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