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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-913
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: Retail Transformation Project Preparation

The ‘Interpretative Overview of Consumer Seafood Research in Australia’ is a result of the CRC Retail Transformation project. This project indentified the need to review and consolidate the existing research available and assess its usefulness. Publically available research was gathered...
ORGANISATION:
Market Strategy Pty Ltd
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Application of tracking technologies to understand space-time explicit patterns of movement, residency and habitat use of pelagic sharks in Spencer Gulf: resolving overlaps with key community activities and marine industries

The report focuses on the movement dynamics of two pelagic sharks, the White Shark (Carcharadon carcharias) and Bronze Whaler (Carcharinhus brachyurus), in South Australia. Specific aims were to: (1) determine if aquaculture activities correlated with patterns on fidelity and migration; and (2)...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation

ESD Reporting and Assessment Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption

Project number: 2004-006
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $215,477.00
Principal Investigator: Warrick J. Fletcher
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2004 - 30 Sep 2007
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Effective coordination of the activities needed to progress the implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) within the fisheries and aquaculture sectors is essential. The concepts of ESD cover a variety of different disciplines including environmental, social, economic, legal and administrative. Furthermore, the stakeholders involved include the research agencies, fisheries management agencies, environmental agencies, the commercial, recreational and aquaculture industries along with the non-government organizations plus indigenous interests. Therefore, the standard jurisdictional, discipline or stakeholder consultative structures are not appropriate to meet this task.

A “Subprogram structure”, which has a reference group that acts both as a coordinating group and as method of increasing communication amongst the different parties, has proven an effective method of administering these activities for the past two years. The duration of the current ESD Reporting and Assessment (ESDRA) subprogram project will finish in June 2004. At this time, however, a number of ESD based initiatives will still be underway. Moreover, a number of new initiatives have only just been endorsed by the ESD reference group and the Ministerial Council for Natural Resource Management (NRMSC) and are likely to be funded in the coming round of applications. Therefore, to assist in the effective management and coordination of these activities (and any future developments) an extension of the subprogram for a further three year period will be required.

Objectives

1. Facilitate the discussion and coordination of ESD related issues amongst the various stakeholder groups
2. Coordinate and facilitate the development and evaluation of ESD related project applications submitted to FRDC
3. Coordinate the preparation and delivery of the ESD subprogram communications strategy
4. Facilitate travel of ESD Reference group members to the annual workshop and meetings

Final report

ISBN: 1 921258 54 3
Author: Rick Fletcher
Final Report • 2017-09-29
2004-006-DLD.pdf

Summary

The second stage of the operation of the ESD Subprogram was successful, but compared to the focus during the first subprogram period, mostly in a consolidation manner rather than from the generation of significant new tools. This was necessary because it takes time to adopt and integrate significant changes to the methods of operation of agencies and industries. The policies must be there before any real activity can occur and we found that for the broader focused, cross fishery/cross sector applications of the framework, agencies were not in a position for much of the time to apply this.

There was also the need to get a level of harmonization of policy and processes amongst agencies - especially between fishery and environment agencies before these broader frameworks can be applied in an effective manner. Such discussions are now occurring in some jurisdictions and these regional types of frameworks are therefore becoming more relevant to their operations and it is likely that they will be used with increasing frequency over the coming few years.

The projects and processes undertaken through the ESD subprogram (and related activities) have overall, been successful. It has provided the basis to demonstrate whether management has credibility with the issues of resource sustainability, functional ecosystem relationships and habitat processes such as is needed to meet the requirements of the Commonwealth's EPBC assessment. Most jurisdictions are now using the tools and frameworks developed by the subprogram or related projects.

Keywords: Ecologically Sustainable Development, Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management, Ecosystem Approaches; Risk Assessment, fisheries management, reporting frameworks, social and economic assessments.

Attending the international marine mammal - gillnet bycatch mitigation workshop

Project number: 2011-407
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $3,166.26
Principal Investigator: Neil Hughes
Organisation: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
Project start/end date: 13 Oct 2011 - 29 Jan 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The Gillnet, Hook and Trap Fishery is facing a number of issues to do with marine marine interactions, particularly with Australian Sea Lion and dolphins. There are a range of possible management responses, but some uncertainty about the effectiveness of these approaches. An understanding of emerging solution and international best practice will position AFMA to best negotiate chnages in the fishery to deliver outcomes consistent with the Fisheries Management Act 1999. While attendance at the Workshop will support management of the fishery, attendance is not a core business element of the current position. Attendance at the Workshop will allow a quick and practical understaning of management and other responses for the fishery, well in advance of the emergence of scientific or management literature on the issue.

Objectives

1. To better understand marine mamal interactions in gillnet fisheries.
2. To understand the range of practical management or other measures to reduce interactions.
3. To forge links with researchers and managers who can provide ongoing technical assistance for managing the fishery.
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-092
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Valuing Victoria's Wild-catch fisheries and aquaculture industries

This project provides the first evaluation of the social and economic contributions of wildcatch professional fisheries and aquaculture of Victoria to the communities in which the industries are located and to the entire state. This project was developed in consultation with the...
ORGANISATION:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-020
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The influence of fish movement on regional fishery production and stock structure for South Australia's Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) fishery

From 2007 onwards, South Australia’s snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) fishery underwent significant and unprecedented changes that impacted on the management of the fishery. This ultimately reflected our poor understanding of the movement behaviour of snapper and its consequences for...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-061
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identifying nursery areas used by inner bay and oceanic snapper stocks in the Shark Bay region, in relation to the effect of prawn trawling on inner bay snapper stocks

This study examined two aspects of the chemical composition of snapper otoliths from Shark Bay Western Australia as an aid to determining the spatial relationship among juveniles and to better understand the spatial relationships between juveniles and adults. Otoliths were collected from...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
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