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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-910
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: automation of western rocklobster processing

Automation of processing is widespread in many food production industries. Currently, labour costs in the Western Rocklobster industry are high and availability of labour is extremely poor. This is especially problematic given the processing of Western Rocklobsters is a highly manual process....
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-504
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: industry-extension of acoustic release technology for at-call access to submerged head-gear in the NSW rocklobster fishery

Acoustic release systems were purchased by 3 fishing businesses but installation proceeded for only 2 of these businesses, on vessels fishing out of Sydney and Jervis Bay. Installation on the vessel Seeking, working out of Jervis Bay, was a permanent installation, with full integration...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)

Coordination of the National Priority 1 Subprogram: to ensure that Australian fishing and aquaculture products are sustainable and acknowledged to be so

Project number: 2016-062
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $533,328.74
Principal Investigator: Sevaly Sen
Organisation: Oceanomics Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 1 Jan 2017 - 19 Dec 2020
Contact:
FRDC

Need

There are increasing community expectations about the social and environmental performance of fisheries and therefore the a growing need for accurate, timely, defensible information to defend the fishing industry, support good purchasing decisions by consumers, protect reputational integrity for the seafood businesses and growing. As these underlying concerns relate to industry-wide pre-competitive activities, collective investment and action focusing on provision of robust and credible information on sustainability and agreed assessment methodologies will reduce overall costs of fishery certification, internal species and fisheries assessments undertaken by seafood businesses and assessments required under the EBPC Act. SAFS is already considered a source of some of this information , but stakeholders require the inclusion of more species and fisheries , a reduction in the undefined species (as this status is difficult to communicate), habitat, TEPs, by-catch and expansion to include social and economic criteria.To reduce assessment costs there is also a need to develop a benchmark which recognises equivalence amongst third party certification and legislative assessment processes to reduce costs and avoid duplication. Progress has also been made on development and standardisation of approaches within all jurisdictions to ensure consistent language and approaches to defining sustainability and responsible fisheries management practices including data poor and inshore fisheries.

There is now a need to build on all this progress through effective and focused coordination and wherever possible, fast track developments by adapting existing international initiative such as the UKs Sustainable Seafood Coalition and the Responsible Fishing Vessel scheme to the Australian fisheries to achieve National Priority 1 objectives by 2020.

Linkages with National Priority 2 have to also be established to ensure that outcomes and outputs support the achievement of those goals i.e. demonstrate that increased productivity and profitability consistent with economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Objectives

1. Manage a portfolio of R&D projects that are directly concerned with National Priority 1 and are not managed by other FRDC subprograms, RAC's or IPA's
2. In consultation with key stakeholders develop strategic directions for R&D
3. Facilitate the dissemination of outputs (information and results) from R&D projects to key stakeholders
4. Collaborate closely with international initiatives on benchmarking and verifying sustainability of commercial fisheries

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-6480476-2-9
Author: Sevaly Sen
Final Report • 2022-02-01 • 2.40 MB
2016-062-DLD.pdf

Summary

The FRDC's RD&E Plan 2015-20 focused on maximising impacts by concentrating on knowledge development around three national priorities including National Priority 1(NP1): to ensure that Australian fishing and aquaculture products are sustainable and acknowledged to be so. 

 

In 2015 and 2016, FRDC held two NP1 workshops to bring together Principal Investigators on projects which were of direct relevance to this priority. Participants at these workshops emphasised the need for a coordinated approach to address NP1 objectives and ensure that outputs and outcomes can be accessed and used by the community.

 

In response, this sub-program was established at the end of 2016 to support NP1 research outputs (including the Status of Australian Fish Stocks) so that credible information on sustainability was easily accessible, regularly updated, and trusted as a source. The sub-program was also tasked with identifying research which addressed emerging sustainability issues and the development of assurance tools. The expected users of sub-program outputs and information included seafood businesses, fishers, aquaculture enterprises, government agencies and non-government organisations. An important component of the subprogram was collaboration with international initiatives to ensure NP1 outputs were harmonised, aligned and/or exceeded international norms.

Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2000-146
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing environmental management standards for the Australian seafood industry

The purpose of this report is to illustrate the value of EMS as a management tool for seafood businesses to achieve their environmental, economic and social goals and in achieving broader natural resources management goals associated with fishing and aquaculture as well as demonstrating to the...
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-150
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Attendance at the Annual Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) - 4-9 December 2018 in Honolulu, USA

This report is an overview of my attendance at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Meeting 15 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 9–16 December 2018 which was made possible through a FRDC Development Award. The report includes information on: (i) what issues were discussed at the meeting,...
ORGANISATION:
Narooma Seafood Direct
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-227
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: enhancement of the Pacific oyster selective breeding program

The Australian national Pacific oyster selective breeding program commenced in 1998. In 2005, after 6 generations of breeding, it was apparent that there were limitations to the breeding strategy. The first was a lack of understanding of which genetic traits to select. Whilst the program...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd (ASI)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-022
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing a rapid molecular identification technique to improve egg production based fish biomass assessments

This project aimed to develop a rapid and affordable molecular method to identify fish eggs from plankton samples. The method selected was a multiplex bead array method where species-specific probes are developed and bound to beads which fluoresce when passed through a flow cytometer if bound to the...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-026
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Can commercial harvest of long-spined sea urchins reduce the impact of urchin grazing on abalone and lobster fisheries?

At low-levels of exploitation, commercial harvesting of long-spined sea urchins was found to prevent increase in urchin density. Adjacent unfished locations experienced an increase in both urchin density and grazed area over the 2014 – 2016 study period. Research sampling of populations...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-706
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: accelerated new product development: blue swimmer crab pilot

The aim of the project was to develop a new series of value added Abacus crab products that have been researched, developed, costed, branded and trialled in the marketplace prior to further large financial commitment to facilitate production. This new accelerated product development methodology,...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
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