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People development program: Aquatic animal health training scheme - workshop on aquatic animal disease surveillance

Project number: 2009-315.15
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $21,513.00
Principal Investigator: Charles Caraguel
Organisation: University of Adelaide
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2011 - 31 Jan 2012
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Need

The first veterinary medicine program in South Australia was recently developed at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences (SAVS), The University of Adelaide. An objective of the school is to foster strong diagnostics, research and training opportunities in aquatic health to support the local and national aquaculture industry. As such, a fully equipped veterinary diagnostic laboratory and a state of the art Marine Biosecurity facility are being completed. A cross-disciplinary team of 10 veterinary academics including diagnostic, pathology, immunology and production experts comprise the Aquatic Special Interest Group (AquaSIG) at SAVS.
As those with the capacity to support the industry, AquaSIG members and local industry/government alike will benefit from further training opportunities in aquatic disease surveillance. AquaSIG members, field veterinarians, government scientists and aquaculturist all identified epidemiological concepts and practices to sample and measure disease in large aquatic populations as priorities. Proper surveillance methodology is paramount to the prevention and control of aquatic diseases.
A 3-day workshop on aquaculture epidemiology is offered sporadically by the University of Tasmania. Sending a suitable number of SA representatives to this course would be cost prohibitive. The organisation of a workshop locally would be cost-effective and would reach a larger audience beyond AquaSIG including: Biosecurity SA veterinarians (responsible for regulatory aquatic disease surveillance); graduate students and research colleagues from SARDI and other local universities; and high-level industry managers. The South Australia community responsible for aquatic health would therefore benefit and support the organisation of a workshop tailored to the region’s specific needs.

Objectives

1. Improve the skills and knowledge of the South Australian aquatic health community to implement proper surveillance programs for aquatic animal diseases
2. Organise a workshop, not offered before in SA, in aquatic disease surveillance involving international, national and local experts for 20-25 participants
3. Provide participants with expert consultants for the design, development or review of their own surveillance needs
4. Encourage sharing and networking among participants and instructors involved in the surveillance of aquatic diseases locally and globally
5. Initiate ongoing training activities and working groups on aquatic animal health in South Australia
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-103
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Strategic Planning Workshop for Yellowtail Kingfish Stock Assessment in South-Eastern Australia

The project facilitated cross-jurisdictional and cross-sectoral discussions on aspects of the Eastern Australia biological stock of Yellowtail Kingfish. Several knowledge gaps relating to biological and life-history parameters, as well as reliable data on the recreational fishery across all...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
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The multiple values attained through partially protected areas

Project number: 2021-070
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $227,634.86
Principal Investigator: Genevieve Phillips
Organisation: University of Tasmania
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2022 - 4 Sep 2024
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Need

In Australia, the definition, and objectives of partially protected areas (PPAs) in the marine environment are inconsistent across jurisdictions. Some examples of PPAs in Australia include spatial or temporal closures to commercial fishing; ‘special-use’ or ‘multi-use’ zones within marine protected areas; and marine zones where recreational fishing is allowed for specific species.

The implementation of such areas is underpinned by a tension to balance the environmental, economic, and social values of multiple users, and multiple objectives of such areas. In turn, resource managers require systematic knowledge of these diverse user values to consider them in decision making and ensure mutually beneficial outcomes wherever possible.

Within Australia, a wide range and combination of such regulations are applied in both Commonweath and State-managed waters, but there is limited understanding of associated effectiveness and implementation of PPAs relative to their stated goals.

Consultation with key stakeholders in Parks Australia, ABARES, DPIPWE (Tasmania), Parks Victoria, and researchers recently working in Fisheries NSW, highlighted the requirement to create an inventory of current PPAs, and where possible, quantify the multiple benefits (environmental, economic, and social) currently attained through PPAs to provide resource managers with evidence-based tools to implement appropriate marine zoning policies.

Recent analyses have suggested there is no benefit to the introduction of specific types of PPAs along the New South Wales coastline (Turnbull et al. 2021) and we will build on the results of this study to quantitatively understand whether these results are representative for all PPAs in Australian and Commonwealth-managed waters.

This project will review definitions of the main objectives for PPAs across Australia and characterise their implementation across Australia. We will then quantify the extent to which specific types of PPAs achieve their stated goals and use the results to develop evidence-based decision support tools, in conjunction with marine resource managers, to facilitate effective implementation of appropriate marine policies.

Objectives

1. Review definitions of environmental, economic and social objectives for partially protected marine areas across Australia.
2. Characterise partially protected area (PPA) implementation across Australia.
3. Analyse to what extent PPAs achieve their stated goals and allow for fair access to marine resources.
4. Develop quantitative decision support tools suitable for resource managers to evaluate PPA implementation strategies.
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