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PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-110
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fish and Chips Awards 2021

The Fish and Chip Awards are a celebration of Australia’s iconic Fish and Chips, and draws focus to the sustainability of Australian seafood, underutilised species, Fish Names, and Country of Origin Labelling in foodservice. The awards are popular with consumers, retailers, and media...
ORGANISATION:
Seafood Industry Australia (SIA)

Seafood CRC: a guide for use by the shark and other fisheries for preparation of information for consumers.

Project number: 2014-705
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $17,750.00
Principal Investigator: Alexandra McManus
Organisation: Curtin University
Project start/end date: 1 Jun 2014 - 30 Jan 2015
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Bev Cooke has identified an issue facing many small to medium seafood businesses, particularly those in regional Australia, where they want to promote their products but do not have the evidence on which to base their marketing and promotion material. This project will develop a 'How to' resource that these businesses can use to develop their own resources that are based on evidence.

Objectives

1. A - How to - resource for small to medium seafood industry businesses to develop consumer promotional material using Eagle Bay Fisheries to illustrate how it can be used in practice.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9874218-2-1
Author: Alexandra McManus
Final Report • 2015-02-16 • 328.41 KB
2014-705-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project aimed to develop ‘how to’ guide for small to medium businesses to assist in navigating the Food Standards Code as well as a simple promotional brochure framework, using Augusta Wild Caught Fisheries to illustrate how it could be used in practice. This guide aims to help small to medium sized seafood businesses to promote and market their products by:

  1. Outlining the chapters of the Food Standards Code (the Code) that relate to food sold in Australia
  2. Providing some information about common microbiological testing
  3. Including a format of a brochure that businesses could use to promote the health benefits of their products.

Small to medium businesses now have a resource to assist them in navigating through the Australian Food Standards Code. This resource will help them to understand the requirements of food labelling within the Code and includes template to assist in developing a marketing brochure.

Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2006-401
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood industry export information package - direct extension to overseas customers of Australian seafood

The project was developed to take advantage of an Australian presence at the world’s leading seafood event, the European Seafood Expo, to introduce young Australians to the world market for seafood. In selecting ESE, the bursary recipients would be exposed to the products from over eighty countries...
ORGANISATION:
Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-261
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Investigating the use of trace element profiles to substantiate provenance for the Australian prawn industry

In 2015 industry stakeholders from the Australian Council of Prawn Fishers (ACPF) and the Australian Prawn Farmers Association (APFA) identified the potential for the "Love Australian Prawns" (LAP) campaign to be undermined by the practice of unscrupulous operators substituting Australian prawns...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University

Developing a National Bycatch Reporting System

Project number: 2015-208
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $300,000.00
Principal Investigator: Steve J. Kennelly
Organisation: IC Independent Consulting Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2015 - 29 Jun 2017
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The only national estimate of bycatch and discarding for Australia’s fisheries suggests that our fisheries discard more than they retain (ie. 55.3% is discarded - FAO, 2005). This figure may surprise many people including environmental groups, those concerned with "sea"-food security and protein-poor countries. This figure also has the potential to adversely affect Australia’s well-earned brand as a responsible fisheries management nation. However - this figure is probably very wrong and much too high. This project aims to correct this.

In 2012, Australia completed its first national report describing the status of Australia’s fish stocks (“Status of Key Australian Fish Stocks Reports”). An issue that arose during its preparation (from AFMF, DAFF, DoE and others) was that there exists no national system for reporting on bycatches or discards. That is, there exists no mechanism by which the public, governments, NGOs, ecolabels, other stakeholders or international agencies can assess Australia’s performance in dealing with bycatch, discards, TEPs interactions, etc.

A recent study (extension to FRDC 2013/233) summarized the recently completed US National Bycatch Report and other similar international reports (FAO’s 1994 and 2005 global reports), investigated future FAO initiatives in this area (FAO are currently planning a decadal repeat of the global report), benchmarked the current Australian situation against these, and recommended a pathway towards an appropriate national bycatch reporting system. That pathway recommended a comprehensive synthesis of available bycatch information available in Australia and the development of a repeatable reporting system, running as an adjunct to the current SAFS system, against which Australia’s record in bycatch management can be assessed against agreed best-practice benchmarks. This project aims to deliver such a system.

Objectives

1. Using 4 jurisdictions as case studies, compile and synthesize all available reports/papers/datasets on fisheries bycatches, discards and TEPs interactions for each
2. Assess the quality of the data gathered using appropriate metrics
3. Develop templates and reporting processes, and identify programs, fisheries and/or species (including any surrogates/indicators), that together will form a national framework for bycatch reporting
4. Compile the above into a framework for future periodic bycatch reporting that dove-tails into the current SAFS system
5. Provide discard inputs (as available) for the Fisheries Health Check system being developed under FRDC 2014/008

Report

ISBN: 978-0-9924930-5-9
Author: Steven J Kennelly
Report • 2018-03-01 • 1.48 MB
2015-208-DLD.pdf

Summary

Bycatch from fishing (the unintended, non-targeted organisms caught when targeting particular species or sizes of species) remains one of the most important issues concerning the world’s fisheries. And discards are considered the most important component of bycatch because they represent a perceived wastage of seafood resources, may include Threatened, Endangered and Protects (TEP) species, and attract significant controversy and interest for many stakeholders including other fisheries, conservation groups, eco-labelling organizations, stock assessment scientists and the general public (who own this part of the catch).
Whilst fisheries jurisdictions have recognised the need to report to the public and other stakeholders regarding the status of exploited stocks, there is growing acceptance and international, regional and national agreements that encourage (or require) governments to also report on the status of bycatches and discards. There have been several efforts to do such reporting including FAO’s decadal global reports and the United States’ very comprehensive National Bycatch Reporting process. But Australia currently does not have a process for reporting on bycatch, and this current project is aimed at developing such a methodology for commercial fisheries. We do this by examining how one could most effectively report on bycatches in 4 of Australia’s 8 fisheries jurisdictions, selected to represent the diversity and size of commercial fisheries in Australia: New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-711.40
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: new opportunities for seafood processing waste

This report summarises the research undertaken under FRDC 2013/711.40: New Opportunities for Seafood Processing Waste Industry consultation and the development of a modified value chain analysis framework for new products from processing waste resulted in eleven industry case studies being...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-006
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

FRDC Resource: Development and ongoing maintenance of Australian Fish Names Standard 2019-2020

This project focuses on the ongoing development and maintenance of the Australian Fish Names Standard. Initiated by Seafood Services Australia in 1999, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) took carriage of the development of the Fish Names Standard in 2013. Initial accreditation...
ORGANISATION:
Alan Snow Konsulting
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