International symposium on cephalopod lifecycles: biology, management and conservation
Evaluation of R&D projects completed in years ending June 2016 to June 2020
Annual Reporting
FRDC needs to report the results of its impact assessments in its annual reporting to the Australian Government and other stakeholders. Hence, an impact assessment report based on completed projects is required by 30th June each year for the next five years. The first project assessments will refer to projects completed in the year ending 30th June 2016 and this first draft assessment report is required by 30th June 2017.
Reporting against the FRDC RD&E Plan 2015-2020 and the Evaluation Framework Associated with the SFA
The annual impact assessment reports will enable reporting against the current FRDC RD&E Plan, commencing with projects completed in the years ending 30th June 2016 and extending to those completed in the years ending June 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The annual assessment reports are likely to be used for populating part of the Evaluation Framework required in the 2019 SFA reporting.
CRRDC Reporting
Economic analysis is required to provide impact assessments from RDC investments across the 15 RDCs. Each RDC is contributing to this effort within a standard set of guidelines and a standard reporting framework. Valuation of these impacts, along with identification of investment expenditure, is required to demonstrate the RDCs contribution to Australian primary industry as well as any environmental and social benefits to Australia.
Final report
Project products
Linking ecosystem services to the profitability of prawn fisheries linked to 2017-188
Social and economic evaluation of NSW coastal commercial wild-catch fisheries
The contributions of commercial fisheries to coastal communities in NSW is not well understood. Current methods for estimating the economic contribution of fisheries calculate only the landed value of the catch and numbers of people directly employed in commercial fishing. This gives inadequate information about commercial fisheries’ position in economic networks within coastal communities – they require a range of goods and services provided from the local community and from larger centres in NSW, all with associated employment. A small percentage of the population is directly engaged in commercial fishing, however, existing evidence indicates that when commercial fishing declines the negative impacts may spread throughout the supply chain, as well as on the ‘glue’ holding towns together through social contributions of fishing families. In the prevailing policy environment the importance of ecological protection and the contributions of recreational fishers are well recognized, while commercial fishers are often seen as ‘the bad guys’ and bear the brunt of the trade-offs made in resource management decisions.
The project generates knowledge that can be used both to demonstrate the value of commercial industries to improve their position as stakeholders in resource management decisions, and to improve public attitudes about commercial fisheries. Sound evidence about the contributions of commercial fisheries will enable triple bottom line policies for sustainability in coastal NSW, by adding social and economic knowledge to the ecological knowledge already developed. For example, it will help identify the costs of adjustment and the resilience of communities with economically challenged fisheries, and indicate how restructuring may be made less difficult. It will also remedy the lack of understanding about contributions from particular sections of commercial fishing, such as the special contributions Indigenous commercial fishers make to their local communities - both Indigenous and non-Indigenous - related to cultural obligations.