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Commercial fisheries and aquaculture activities with insufficient levels of social support can negatively affect industry member well-being and contribute to restricted resource access. More & appropriate engagement is needed to improve stakeholder and community trust & support, both with those affected by industry activity, and with those who affect industry activity (i.e. decision-makers and influencers).

This project addresses the need to ensure that the range of engagement activities and strategies undertaken by organisations and operators within fisheries and aquaculture are effective at:
- building relationships and trustworthiness;
- understanding concerns and needs arising from industry activity; and
- influencing preferences and decisions.

Limited evaluation has been undertaken regarding the effectiveness of engagement strategies and activities in meeting predefined goals. Similarly, limited opportunities exist to transfer knowledge between industry organisations of successful and future engagement practice; or to support improved return on investment of engagement strategies.
The NSW Fishing Industry has a need to improve relationships and trustworthiness with key stakeholders, and to achieve specific outcomes for PFA members, which include; improve social license by industry taking the lead on its own imagery, and an increase in the consumption and variety of NSW seafood.

In addition, there is limited feedback on whether communication strategies about to embark on will be effective at achieving the PFA’s desired outcomes, and there is information to help develop long term engagement strategies and direct limited resources to the most effective activities.

Therefore, there is a need to select a range of community engagement strategies and activities, and evaluate these against predefined goals. Engagement successes need to be extended to other industry organisations,
and if appropriate, decision support materials to be developed to extend knowledge adoption of the findings and materials.

Objectives

1. Evaluate these engagement activities and strategies against their predefined goals, applying an engagement evaluation framework developed by Clear Horizon as part of "FRDC project 2018-201" using standardised and defensible monitoring and evaluation methods.

2. Pilot and refine the evaluation framework using the above.

3. Develop materials to support other industry organisations based on the specific case studies, in selecting, designing, implementing and evaluating types of engagement activities and strategies which have been demonstrated to be highly effective at achieving specific engagement goals. (REVIEW with Stop/Go point)

4. Contribute to extension and knowledge mobilisation of these findings and materials. (REVIEW with Stop/Go point)

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Summary

This user-friendly tool helps you choose the most suitable engagement activities based on your specific goals, target audience, and resources. By considering factors like budget and expertise, the tool suggests effective strategies to connect with your community.

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How-To-Resources Engagement for Success.pdf

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How can this Digital Toolkit help you?

The seafood industry plays a vital role in economies worldwide. However, its success often hinges on strong relationships with local communities and stakeholders. This toolkit is designed to help fisheries and aquaculture businesses build trust, transparency, and influence decisions effectively by providing resources that will help you engage with your community in a deeper way and effectively communicate your business’s value.

What's Inside?

Our toolkit offers two primary resources:

Interactive Selection Tool

You can access this tool above.

How-to Informational Resources

These PDFs guides provide step-by-step instructions for implementing various engagement activities. Learn how to organize community meetings, develop effective communication materials, and measure the impact of your efforts.

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SPECIES

Atlantic Salmon

PROJECT NUMBER • 1999-335

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Seventh international symposium on genetics in aquaculture

The successful staging of the Seventh International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture, the premier international conference for genetic experts specializing in Aquaculture, for the first time in the southern hemisphere, has led to greater exposure of the Australian Aquaculture Industries to that...

ORGANISATION:

Australian Institute Of Marine Science (AIMS)

TAGS

PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-036

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Development of methods to age commercially important dories and oreos

Four species of dories (Family: Zeidae) and five species of oreos (Family: Oreosomatidae) are caught in the South East Fishery (SEF). John dory and mirror dory are included in the SEF quota sytem with Total Allowable Catches (TACs), in 1993, of 240 t and 800 t, respectively. Oreos, originally a...

ORGANISATION:

Agriculture Victoria

TAGS

PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-060

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Healthcheck Phase 2

Sustainability is a broad and complex concept, and consideration of the diverse suite of factors involved in social, economic, ecological and governance arrangements is needed to create truly sustainable food production industries. Australian fisheries encompasses a much broader range of issues than...

ORGANISATION:

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

TAGS

PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-152

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Resolution of taxonomic problems and preparation of a user-friendly identification guide to whole fish and fillets for South East Fishery "quota species"

An upgraded identification guide to fish and fillets of the South East Fishery (SEF) quota species groups has been compiled from new information. This reference, South East Fishery.Quota Species: an Identification Guide (Daley et al., 1997) and hereafter referred to as SEF Species Guide, was...

ORGANISATION:

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

TAGS

Population Dynamics

Physiology

Nutrition

Individual Transferable Quota

Fishing Effort

PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-102

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Interactions between the abalone fishery and sea urchins in NSW

A sampling method was developed to quantify changes in the abundance of abalone on reefs in NSW from Port Stephens to the Victorian border. The method is based on the repeated sampling of the same, fixed areas and has been used each year since 1994 to provide indices of the relative abundance of...

ORGANISATION:

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)

TAGS

Indigenous fishing subprogram: Building the Capacity and Performance of Indigenous Fisheries

Project number: 2013-218

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $230,000.00

Principal Investigator: Ewan A. Colquhoun

Organisation: Ridge Partners

Project start/end date: 30 Apr 2013 - 17 Jul 2016

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

Need

Wild capture fisheries are a national asset. They contribute in two ways: USE as a social, cultural or economic asset, AND value created through people and MANAGEMENT systems guiding that use. Aquaculture is an increasingly important seafood source offering potential across all sectors.

The IRG's RD&E Strategy contains 5 Aspirations, 11 Principles and related Outputs. Their comprehensive, integrated approach provides a single framework that offers a key role for all stakeholders, locally and nationally.

The IRG's Strategy will be successful only when it resolves key challenges, including:
- poor understanding and awareness of the needs of indigenous fishery users, and their monitoring of progress toward social/cultural/economic aspirations they aspire to,
- lack of capacity (human, management, structural) of fishers and communities to respond to and benefit from this Strategy,
- lack of alignment between customary sea management practices, enterprise profit motives, social/cultural/economic drivers for community viability, and government practices,
- the diversity of indigenous fisheries, across cultures, geography, aquatic environments, species and economic opportunities.

The Strategy must:
- create a viable pathway forward,
- increase fishery value in the hands of users, and
- better align government policy and process. This will require a policy and regulatory gap analysis and review options to better align these with traditional sea management approaches.

Change will take time - but outputs must demonstrate increasing value (social/cultural/economic) to fishers and communities.

The Project Team will partner with 4-5 indigenous fishery communities to consult and understand their fisheries, aspirations, needs, capacities and alignment with social/cultural/economic factors. The Team will respond with actions that aim to boost fishery value. Local case studies will inform national approaches and about what works, when and where.

The project will cost effectively create new tools, structures, alignments, data, and capacities, in the hands of the IRG, indigenous fishers and communities.

Objectives

1. Identify 4-5 Case Study fishing communities, and work with IRG and stakeholders to document aspirations and social/cultural/economic capacity, identify constraints to achieving desired community and national development outcomes, and test/trial micro development pathways.

2. Evaluate models (enterprise/management), conduct gap analyses (policy/regulatory), and synthesize and document preferred development pathways (national/regional) to enhance indigenous access to, participation in, and benefits (social/cultural/economic) from fishery development.

3. Establish and document output and extension strategies (3yr + 5yr) for the IRG (national) and each participating regional indigenous fishing community.

4. Document and report learnings (IRG + case studies), models, performance monitoring arrangements, and recommendations to the IRG that will enhance future indigenous fishery performance and community benefits

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9871427-6-4

Author: Ewan Colquhoun

Final Report • 2018-09-21 • 6.22 MB

2013-218-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group, an advisory committee to the FRDC for matters related to Indigenous fishery research, development and extension (R&D).

The project sought to build the capacity and performance of Australia’s Indigenous fisheries. It identified issues and drivers, and describes methods, means, outputs and outcomes to enhance fishery capacity and performance.

This report summary comprises four parts:

Review of the economic framework that impacts Indigenous community and fishery development

The starting point for the project was the IRG’s RD&E Framework for Indigenous fishery development. This framework of eleven key R&D Principles and five national and community aspirations, is grounded in a vision to enable continuous improvement, rising from Primacy to Capacity Building.

This is the pathway to achieve sustainable increases in the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, collectively and for individual communities. Indigenous communities will be the immediate and primary beneficiaries of this vision fulfilled.
Issues and drivers for Indigenous fisheries
The project has identified issues that impact the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, and related drivers of uncertainty and change.
UNLOCK THE INDIGENOUS ESTATE
EMPLOYMENT, LEARNING AND MICROBUSINESSES
SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD AND TOURISM
INDIGENOUS PARTICIPATION IN FISHERIES
Conclusions regarding business models to support economic development
Project design called for 4-5 case studies that would represent the national Indigenous community fishery cohort, meet project objectives, and inform the IRG and RD&E decision makers.
Guided by the IRG, the project team has engaged seven case study fishery communities in face-to-face consultations regarding fishery status, capacity, performance, models, aspirations, economic development options, and analyses and reporting.
Recommendations to the IRG/FRDC regarding measures and actions to build the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries.

The project team recommends the IRG consider the following actions:

Implement a plan to identify Indigenous fishery communities across Australia that hold exclusive or non-exclusive rights to, and control of underutilised fishery resources.
Encourage Indigenous fishery communities that seek to develop their fishery resources, to establish at least one community corporation registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
Encourage each Indigenous fishery community (including local residents and remote TOs and members) to undertake a formal planning process
Encourage community to identify commercial partners, networks and collaborations
Empower Indigenous fishery community leaders to attend, contribute to and learn

Final Report • 2018-09-21 • 6.22 MB

2013-218-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group, an advisory committee to the FRDC for matters related to Indigenous fishery research, development and extension (R&D).

This report summary comprises four parts:

Review of the economic framework that impacts Indigenous community and fishery development

The starting point for the project was the IRG’s RD&E Framework for Indigenous fishery development. This framework of eleven key R&D Principles and five national and community aspirations, is grounded in a vision to enable continuous improvement, rising from Primacy to Capacity Building.

This is the pathway to achieve sustainable increases in the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, collectively and for individual communities. Indigenous communities will be the immediate and primary beneficiaries of this vision fulfilled.
Issues and drivers for Indigenous fisheries
The project has identified issues that impact the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, and related drivers of uncertainty and change.
UNLOCK THE INDIGENOUS ESTATE
EMPLOYMENT, LEARNING AND MICROBUSINESSES
SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD AND TOURISM
INDIGENOUS PARTICIPATION IN FISHERIES
Conclusions regarding business models to support economic development
Project design called for 4-5 case studies that would represent the national Indigenous community fishery cohort, meet project objectives, and inform the IRG and RD&E decision makers.
Guided by the IRG, the project team has engaged seven case study fishery communities in face-to-face consultations regarding fishery status, capacity, performance, models, aspirations, economic development options, and analyses and reporting.
Recommendations to the IRG/FRDC regarding measures and actions to build the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries.

The project team recommends the IRG consider the following actions:

Implement a plan to identify Indigenous fishery communities across Australia that hold exclusive or non-exclusive rights to, and control of underutilised fishery resources.
Encourage Indigenous fishery communities that seek to develop their fishery resources, to establish at least one community corporation registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
Encourage each Indigenous fishery community (including local residents and remote TOs and members) to undertake a formal planning process
Encourage community to identify commercial partners, networks and collaborations
Empower Indigenous fishery community leaders to attend, contribute to and learn

Final Report • 2018-09-21 • 6.22 MB

2013-218-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group, an advisory committee to the FRDC for matters related to Indigenous fishery research, development and extension (R&D).

This report summary comprises four parts:

Review of the economic framework that impacts Indigenous community and fishery development

The starting point for the project was the IRG’s RD&E Framework for Indigenous fishery development. This framework of eleven key R&D Principles and five national and community aspirations, is grounded in a vision to enable continuous improvement, rising from Primacy to Capacity Building.

This is the pathway to achieve sustainable increases in the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, collectively and for individual communities. Indigenous communities will be the immediate and primary beneficiaries of this vision fulfilled.
Issues and drivers for Indigenous fisheries
The project has identified issues that impact the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, and related drivers of uncertainty and change.
UNLOCK THE INDIGENOUS ESTATE
EMPLOYMENT, LEARNING AND MICROBUSINESSES
SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD AND TOURISM
INDIGENOUS PARTICIPATION IN FISHERIES
Conclusions regarding business models to support economic development
Project design called for 4-5 case studies that would represent the national Indigenous community fishery cohort, meet project objectives, and inform the IRG and RD&E decision makers.
Guided by the IRG, the project team has engaged seven case study fishery communities in face-to-face consultations regarding fishery status, capacity, performance, models, aspirations, economic development options, and analyses and reporting.
Recommendations to the IRG/FRDC regarding measures and actions to build the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries.

The project team recommends the IRG consider the following actions:

Implement a plan to identify Indigenous fishery communities across Australia that hold exclusive or non-exclusive rights to, and control of underutilised fishery resources.
Encourage Indigenous fishery communities that seek to develop their fishery resources, to establish at least one community corporation registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
Encourage each Indigenous fishery community (including local residents and remote TOs and members) to undertake a formal planning process
Encourage community to identify commercial partners, networks and collaborations
Empower Indigenous fishery community leaders to attend, contribute to and learn

Final Report • 2018-09-21 • 6.22 MB

2013-218-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group, an advisory committee to the FRDC for matters related to Indigenous fishery research, development and extension (R&D).

This report summary comprises four parts:

Review of the economic framework that impacts Indigenous community and fishery development

The starting point for the project was the IRG’s RD&E Framework for Indigenous fishery development. This framework of eleven key R&D Principles and five national and community aspirations, is grounded in a vision to enable continuous improvement, rising from Primacy to Capacity Building.

This is the pathway to achieve sustainable increases in the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, collectively and for individual communities. Indigenous communities will be the immediate and primary beneficiaries of this vision fulfilled.
Issues and drivers for Indigenous fisheries
The project has identified issues that impact the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, and related drivers of uncertainty and change.
UNLOCK THE INDIGENOUS ESTATE
EMPLOYMENT, LEARNING AND MICROBUSINESSES
SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD AND TOURISM
INDIGENOUS PARTICIPATION IN FISHERIES
Conclusions regarding business models to support economic development
Project design called for 4-5 case studies that would represent the national Indigenous community fishery cohort, meet project objectives, and inform the IRG and RD&E decision makers.
Guided by the IRG, the project team has engaged seven case study fishery communities in face-to-face consultations regarding fishery status, capacity, performance, models, aspirations, economic development options, and analyses and reporting.
Recommendations to the IRG/FRDC regarding measures and actions to build the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries.

The project team recommends the IRG consider the following actions:

Implement a plan to identify Indigenous fishery communities across Australia that hold exclusive or non-exclusive rights to, and control of underutilised fishery resources.
Encourage Indigenous fishery communities that seek to develop their fishery resources, to establish at least one community corporation registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
Encourage each Indigenous fishery community (including local residents and remote TOs and members) to undertake a formal planning process
Encourage community to identify commercial partners, networks and collaborations
Empower Indigenous fishery community leaders to attend, contribute to and learn

Final Report • 2018-09-21 • 6.22 MB

2013-218-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project was commissioned by the Indigenous Reference Group, an advisory committee to the FRDC for matters related to Indigenous fishery research, development and extension (R&D).

This report summary comprises four parts:

Review of the economic framework that impacts Indigenous community and fishery development

The starting point for the project was the IRG’s RD&E Framework for Indigenous fishery development. This framework of eleven key R&D Principles and five national and community aspirations, is grounded in a vision to enable continuous improvement, rising from Primacy to Capacity Building.

This is the pathway to achieve sustainable increases in the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, collectively and for individual communities. Indigenous communities will be the immediate and primary beneficiaries of this vision fulfilled.
Issues and drivers for Indigenous fisheries
The project has identified issues that impact the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries, and related drivers of uncertainty and change.
UNLOCK THE INDIGENOUS ESTATE
EMPLOYMENT, LEARNING AND MICROBUSINESSES
SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD AND TOURISM
INDIGENOUS PARTICIPATION IN FISHERIES
Conclusions regarding business models to support economic development
Project design called for 4-5 case studies that would represent the national Indigenous community fishery cohort, meet project objectives, and inform the IRG and RD&E decision makers.
Guided by the IRG, the project team has engaged seven case study fishery communities in face-to-face consultations regarding fishery status, capacity, performance, models, aspirations, economic development options, and analyses and reporting.
Recommendations to the IRG/FRDC regarding measures and actions to build the capacity and performance of Indigenous fisheries.

The project team recommends the IRG consider the following actions:

Implement a plan to identify Indigenous fishery communities across Australia that hold exclusive or non-exclusive rights to, and control of underutilised fishery resources.
Encourage Indigenous fishery communities that seek to develop their fishery resources, to establish at least one community corporation registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
Encourage each Indigenous fishery community (including local residents and remote TOs and members) to undertake a formal planning process
Encourage community to identify commercial partners, networks and collaborations
Empower Indigenous fishery community leaders to attend, contribute to and learn