PROJECT NUMBER
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1995-159
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
457 results
SCRC: PhD : Managing fisheries to maximise profits by understanding and reducing variable costs of fishing
Project number:
2009-756
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$0.00
Principal Investigator:
Caleb Gardner
Organisation:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Project start/end date:
28 Feb 2010
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30 Nov 2013
Contact:
FRDC
There are several reasons that targeted research on the variable cost of fishing is warranted as part of the bioeconomic activities of the theme. First, some fisheries regulations have evolved over long periods with lower fishing costs, a revision of these could increase the profitability of the fishery and may be necessary to ensure economic viability into the future. Secondly, fuel is one of the largest variable cost factors in most fisheries and has proven to be highly volatile in price over the last few years; extensive evidence suggests that fuel prices will continue to rise at rates significantly faster than most other costs. Third, the economic flows from fuel consumption tend to provide a lower contribution to GDP than other variable costs such as labour (due to the export nature of the cost); consequently disproportionate increases in fuel prices may result in a lower fishery contribution to GDP.
FRDC-DCCEE: growth opportunities & critical elements in the value chain for wild fisheries & aquaculture in a changing climate
Project number:
2011-233
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$350,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Alistair Hobday
Organisation:
CSIRO Land and Water Canberra
Project start/end date:
30 Nov 2011
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30 May 2013
Contact:
FRDC
Climate change is impacting the oceans around Australia and is expected to increasingly do so into the future (Poloczanska et al 2007; Hobday and Lough 2011). Information on environmental state and biological relationships to the environment, coupled with climate, ocean and management projections, allow qualitative projections of future stock trajectories (e.g. Brown et al 2009). The climate change research to date has focussed on the relationship between known climate drivers like temperature, ocean currents, and the ecosystem. Very little assessment has been made to date at the intersection of climate change and the fisheries legislative framework and other marine planning and environmental legal instruments. Whilst there may be negative impacts, there will also be opportunities for growth in some sectors, which may be prevented by inefficiencies in the supply chain, or by policies that do not enable opportunities to be realized. Thus, assessment across the value chain could allow realisation of the potential benefits and minimise the losses for Australian fisheries as a result of climate change. Importantly, this will allow identification of elements within the supply chain where climate impacts can be reduced, and where policy can be developed to implement reduction measures. Analysis of selected fisheries across their value chain, for social, economic and biological barriers and enablers will inform other fisheries. This project formally includes the stakeholders - fisheries management agencies - and will coordinate activities and findings in concert with the existing regional fishery climate change programs.
References
Brown et al (2009) Effects of climate-driven primary production change on marine food webs: implications for fisheries and conservation. Global Change Biology
Poloczanska et al (2007) Climate Change And Australian Marine Life. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review
Hobday AJ, Lough J (2011) Projected climate change in Australian marine and freshwater environments. Marine and Freshwater Research.
1. Describe the current state of biology, fishery, policy and management for each case study fishery
2. Develop value chains for each of the selected fisheries, with biological, social and economic input
3. Develop future models of these value chains to identify opportunities and barriers with regard to environmental change, biology, social and economic factors
4. Develop strategies to overcome the barriers and take advantage of the opportunities
PROJECT NUMBER
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2008-329
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Inaugural international seafood conference
Project number:
1992-086
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$25,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Stephen Thrower
Organisation:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date:
11 Oct 1992
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30 Dec 1993
Contact:
FRDC
1. Attract participants from Australian and overseas from industry, government, and the research community
2. Provide a basis for the Australian seafood industry to move from being a commodity supplier to a producer of value added products by making available the most advanced technology from around the world
3. Enable researchers, producers and regulators to meet and make personal contact with their peers from overseas countries
PROJECT NUMBER
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2000-145
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
PROJECT NUMBER
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2001-317.90
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2006-229
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Australian Maritime College (AMC)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2007-054
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Triple Helix Consulting Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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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 -...
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