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A workshop to investigate the development of training and accreditation procedures for provision of scientific data by the fishing industry
Project number:
2000-304
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$14,785.00
Principal Investigator:
Tony D. Smith
Organisation:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date:
30 May 2000
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30 Sep 2003
Contact:
FRDC
There would be many advantages in having the fishing industry collect some of the basic data needed for stock assessment and environmental monitoring. The need is to develop a program for this to occur in an efficient, effective and accountable manner. The first need is to bring together key stakeholders who would need to be involved if such a program were to be developed. The stakeholders would include fishing industry associations, fisheries scientists (government and non-government), fisheries training agencies, resource and environmental management agencies and groups like Ocean Watch.
1. To discuss and scope ideas for developing industry capability for scientific data collection
2. To develop a full proposal for submission to FRDC in December 1999.
Final report
The E-boat: implementation of an on-board electronic data collection and transmission system. A working model from the South East Trawl Fishery
Project number:
2001-012
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$20,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Lachlan Marshall
Organisation:
South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA)
Project start/end date:
29 Jun 2001
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1 Jun 2003
Contact:
FRDC
The fishing vessel can provide a wealth of information for fishers, researcher, managers and others interested in the marine environment. At the moment, however, the process of collecting and transmitting this information is extremely inefficient. Regardless of who uses the informaiton, it is usually written down on paper (often duplicated), posted off to the appropriate agency, deciphered, key-punched and validated. AFMA needs to be sent logbooks, skippers keep their own private fishing logbooks, biologists need to come on board to collect and key-punch simple information on catch composition and length frequencies, the process of transporting, marketing and selling the catch involves even more double-handling and more paperwork.
Many SETF fishing vessels have VMS, computers and a range of other electronic hardware (GPS, net monitors etc) which provide the electronic capacity necessary to revolutionise the way they collect, store and transmit this data. By integrating this hardware with the appropriate software, the full capacity of the onboard electronics can be realised. Date, time position, depth and water temperature can be automatically recorded at the start and end of each shot. Total catch composition (retained and discarded) can be entered directly by the skipper and e-mailed directly off to AFMA thereby meeting the SEF1 logbook requirements. Length frequency data can be recorded by one of the deckhands, entered into the computer and emailed off to the ISMP, thus providing realtime data on the fishery. The skipper can place the catch on an electronic marketing site where markets, wholesalers and retailers can purchase the fish, knowing exactly when they were caught and where and when they will be landed.
SETFIA has already reviewed the available software and decided that the OLRAC software has the greatest potential for their industry at this stage. Preliminary work has already been done to start applying this software to the SETF requirements. By installing and trialing the OLRAC software, which has been particularly designed to meet the needs of fishers, managers, researchers, retailers, SETFIA intends to set up one of their trawlers as an example of the potential for industry development in the age of electronic communication. As the "guinea pig", there will be a need for significant consultation between the vessel owners, software provider, and end users such as the vessel company, AFMA, research agencies, and electronic marketing companies. Funding to implement software and hardware to receive electronic logbook data is being provided by AFMA. Onboard computing and VMS hardware is being provided by SETFIA. This project seeks funding to implement and trial the onboard software chosen by SETFIA.
1. Tailor the OLRAC software for use in the South East Trawl Fishery
2. Develop and implement protocols for data transfer to AFMA, fishing company, ISMP and e-commerce sites
3. Trial a working model which utilises all of the electronic capabilities for on-board data collection, recording and transmission
4. Extend this technology to other fishing vessels both within and outside the SETF through a range of Industry meetings and a user manual.
Final report
Author:
Lachlan Marshall
What’s stopping you from protecting yourself and your mates? Identifying barriers to the adoption of safe work practises in the small-scale wild catch commercial fishing industry
Project number:
2017-046
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$321,720.00
Principal Investigator:
Kate J. Brooks
Organisation:
KAL Analysis
Project start/end date:
5 Oct 2017
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29 Sep 2020
Contact:
FRDC
High rates of work related injury and illness exist within Australia's commercial fishing industry, compared to other primary industries. A large proportion of current WHS approaches appear to be either underutilised or ineffective in reducing work related injury and illness frequency rates. The wild catch sector has identified a need to explore how to affect cultural shifts that increase the adoption of behaviours that create safe work environments and improve outcomes for the industry. Opportunities exist to learn from fisheries that are in the process of, or have adopted improved and positive WHS attitudes and behaviours, and to identify how they may be successfully shared with other fisheries.
Fishing industry representatives identify the desirability of simultaneously generating positive WHS outcomes while undertaking research. It is clearly recognised that the industry is averse to strengthening regulatory and compliance requirements, but seek the identification of behaviours and psychological factors that underpin established, or potential improvements in safety culture and behaviours, with a view to improving WHS outcomes. Given sensitivities to WHS regulatory recriminations, it is also a clear requirement and undertaking of this research to respect the anonymity of research participants in the data, and to protect them from any direct negative regulatory actions as a result of their participation in the research.
A need has also been identified to develop a set of principles, that may be promulgated nationally and utilised by industry to improve WHS outcomes, with the benefit of potentially minimising regulatory impositions.
It is also acknowledged that opportunities exit to improve WHS outcomes in the aquaculture and retail sectors. While the wild catch is the focus of this project, it will seek to identify any knowledge that may also by applicable to and utilised by these other sectors.
1. To generate knowledge to foster a stronger safety culture in the wild catch commercial fishing industry, and identify relevant recommendations also applicable to the aquaculture and retail sectors.
2. Identify the barriers (environmental, behavioural, psychological, regulatory, and market based) to adoption and implementation of safe work practises.
3. Identify the specific factors contributing to improvements in industry safety culture.
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Enhancement of the NSW blacklip abalone fishery using hatchery produced seed
Project number:
2001-033
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$414,118.22
Principal Investigator:
Geoff L. Allan
Organisation:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Project start/end date:
30 Dec 2001
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1 Jan 2009
Contact:
FRDC
SPECIES
Benefits of this project could be very substantial. For instance, a doubling of the current total allowable commercial catch of abalone back to levels of around 600 tonnes regularly achieved 10 to 15 years ago would double the current landed catch adding another $15million pa to its value.
Practical achievement of cost effective enhancement using hatchery produced seed will however ultimately depend on the following 2 basic prerequisites both of which are addressed by this proposal.
i) Minimising costs of producing and deploying each of the 4 alternative classes of seed to be assessed .
These costs increase at an accelerating rate with increasing size and age of seed, but reduce with increasing scale and efficiency of production and other factors such as opportunistic use of excess abalone farm stock especially surplus larvae (a common occurrence) and slow growing juvenile stock ("stunts and runts") up to a third of which may be culled at 6 to 12 months of age.
ii) Accurate knowledge of rates of survival and growth and a sound knowledge of key factors influencing survival and growth of each of 4 alternative size /age classes of seed. This in turn would facilitate reliable prediction of cumulative mortality and of time required for seed to attain sizes at which net value of harvestable stocks at particular locations are maximised.
NSW Fisheries and the NSW abalone fishing industry (through ABMAC) while recognising potential benefits to be gained from large scale production and use of hatchery produced seed, including farming, fisheries enhancement and ranching, also acknowledge the following constraints to achieving such benefits :
i) The current absence of appropriate policy, legislation and regulations required for future ranching of abalone on natural or artificial reef in NSW.
ii) A previous shortfall of ongoing technical and logistical support required to facilitate establishment of abalone farming in NSW that has to date lagged behind that occurring in Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. Support to be provided by this project includes training of technical staff and, as already requested by several prospective investors in abalone farming, initial supply of seed to fast-track production and hence earlier cash-flow.
1. Further improve hatchery and nursery technology for black lip abalone.
2. Evaluate alternative methods of reducing high post release mortality rates commonly sustained by hatchery produced abalone seed.
3. Produce and assess the utility of sterile triploid black lip and/or hybrid abalone for fisheries enhancement, ranching and farming.
4. Evaluate impacts of abalone seeding on reef communities and competing species.
5. Develop indigenous community capacity to undertake the production of seed abalone and use of that seed for cost effective and sustainable fisheries enhancement, ranching and farming of black lip abalone.
6. Produce economic models of black lip abalone fisheries enhancement and ranching and onshore/offshore farming in NSW.
Final report
Author:
M.P. Heasman
W. Liu
P.J. Goodsell
D.A. Hurwood
G.L. Allan
Final Report
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2017-09-29
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6.10 MB
2001-033-DLD.pdf
This project is a revision of FRDC Project 2001/033 which was originally titled Enhancement of the NSW blacklip abalone fishery using hatchery produced seed. The original project included a significant cash contribution from the NSW Abalone Fishing Industry but unfortunately after FRDC approved the project, the industry decided against providing the cash contribution.
In consideration of this and of the wider potential benefits of the project, an alternative partnership was secured through the NSW Government’s Indigenous Fisheries Strategy. The NSW DPI abalone aquaculture and enhancement project was originally initiated in the early 1990s by NSW south coast indigenous groups to develop abalone aquaculture for their communities so the indigenous community, through the Indigenous Fishing Strategy, were logical partners and key stakeholders in the R&D.
A precursor project (FRDC 98/219) had made good progress towards developing cost-effective fisheries enhancement and ranching technology for blacklip abalone in NSW. More than 20 million larvae were seeded over 12 locations and almost 900,000 “button size” juveniles at 50 locations. Preliminary economic modelling, incorporating seed production and deployment costs and size specific natural survivorship, identified “button size” (7 to 12 mm) 6 to 8 month old juveniles as those likely to be cost-effective for seeding depleted reefs in NSW.
Average survivorship from these releases was however much lower than that reported for equivalent size/age wild juveniles. The most probable cause was identified as high-density related predation following release, possibly exacerbated by distinctive blue-green shell colouration and predator naivety of hatchery produced seed.
As stated above, indigenous groups had been actively seeking to establish hatchery based abalone farming, fisheries enhancement and ranching enterprises in southern NSW since at least 1993. The revised objectives and outcomes of this project supported this goal.
Keywords: Abalone, Fishery, Aquaculture, Hatchery, Broodstock, Production, Deployment, Reseeding, Enhancement
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