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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-139
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Decadal scale projection of changes in Australian fisheries stocks under climate change

Australia's oceans are undergoing rapid change and changes in fish distribution, abundance and phenology have been widely reported. A first step in ensuring that the fisheries of Australia adapt effectively to climate change is an understanding of the historical and projected changes in the species...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-047
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: synthesis of existing information, analysis and prioritisation of future monitoring activities to confirm sustainability of the red-legged banana sub-fishery in the Joseph Boneparte Gulf

To evaluate the ecological sustainability of the at‐risk species, habitats and ecosystems impacted by the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (JBG) sub‐fishery, we synthesized existing data and assessments, and detailed the changes that have occurred in the fishery in relation to temporal and spatial trends in...
ORGANISATION:
NPF Industry Pty Ltd
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-026
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Environmentally sustainable development of barramundi cage aquaculture

A preliminary sensory evaluation study was conducted to confirm the presence of a taint issue. Prior to this the issue was reliant on purchaser feedback and was not verified independently. To examine the issue of flavour taint a series of barramundi samples were collected from Lake Argyle (purged...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
SPECIES
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-506
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Ralf Yorque Symposium and Ecopath with Ecosim Training Course

This report summarises the outcome of a Ralf Yorque symposium – a small fairly informal series of workshops aimed at providing the big picture thinking space needed to underpin multi-year, multi-project research programs that incrementally piece together the necessary components of a...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

Development of a user-friendly desktop tool based on existing Atlantis runs

Project number: 2010-043
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $85,743.00
Principal Investigator: Beth Fulton
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date: 31 Jul 2010 - 30 Jun 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Fisheries Managers often need to rapidly explore possible impacts of a range of potential changes to a fishery (for example, changes in fuel and fish prices, biophysical, environmental and economic drivers of the fishery, and alternative fisheries management regulations). Unfortunately, the preparation and implementation time involved in an end-to-end ecosystem modeling project (e.g. the Alternative Management strategies for commonwealth fisheries) means that delivery time is typically years (likely 3-4 years) at a potential cost of millions. This is simply too slow to be of use to many of the rapid turn around questions management bodies are presented with. However, the decisions that need to be made would benefit from system-level strategic information if it were available; and fisheries managers and other stakeholders, including the fishing industry, would gain significant insights into the fishery from the ability to explore such changes without the need to undertake specific research projects.

To this end the best approach is to preemptively create a library of runs that span a large number of potential management strategies and scenarios of interest and to have it to hand as an accessible data source through a user-friendly interface that can be explored from the user’s desktop. This need has been identified by key stakeholders, like the AFMA managers and lead to the ComFRAB call for this project. In the short term this tool is best developed and applied around a library of runs set up for southeastern waters and the SESSF, but the benefit can be much broader than that – both in terms of creating a framework for future use with other Atlantis (or multispecies) model output and indirectly by providing a way of interrogating a complex marine system to gain general insights into their function and implications of different forms of management.

Objectives

1. Develop an easily accessible desktop software application to allow fisheries stakeholders to analyse ecosystem model output and gather information on potential ecological and economic impacts of changes in the fisheries system due to alternative fisheries management arrangements.

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-922173-37-9
Author: Beth Fulton

Development of research methodology and quantitative skills for integrated fisheries management in WA

Project number: 2000-311
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $579,814.00
Principal Investigator: Norman G. Hall
Organisation: Murdoch University
Project start/end date: 23 May 2001 - 28 Sep 2008
Contact:
FRDC

Need

(1) Fisheries WA and Murdoch University have identified a need for developing new models that are based on integrating fisheries data with data on fish populations and communities and habitat requirements, and thereby facilitating the production of high quality management plans aimed at ensuring the ecological sustainability of fisheries resources in Western Australia.

(2) There is an increasing need for developing the quantitative approaches for analysing, in a more sophisticated manner, the biological data on fish populations that are traditionally used for developing management plans for fish stocks, as well as for developing appropriate new models (see Point 1)

(3) Fisheries WA, Murdoch University and other agencies have also identified the need for producing a continuous supply of high-quality scientists, who have the quantitative skills required for understanding and developing ecosystem and fishery models, and who are thus suitably trained for employment in areas related to the implementation of integrated fisheries and ecosystem management.

Objectives

1. To use the extensive data set for the fishery, fish and invertebrate fauna, flora and environment of the Peel-Harvey estuary to develop models that are able to be used for developing plans for integrated fishery and ecosystem management in that estuary.
2. To develop the above models further, using data for other ecosystems, so that combined fisheries and ecosystem models then become available for a range of different ecosystems.
3. To develop more sophisticated and advanced quantitative techniques for analysing the biological data present in existing datasets so that more complex information, such as individual variability in growth and gear selectivity, can be provided to those managers responsible for developing the plans for an integrated approach to fisheries and ecosystem management.
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