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Seafood CRC: Oyster consortium - communication, extension and management of R&D results

Project number: 2007-715
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $120,647.10
Principal Investigator: Rachel King
Organisation: Oysters Australia Ltd
Project start/end date: 29 Sep 2007 - 30 Oct 2010
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Stakeholder
Innovation
Fisheries Management
Community
SPECIES
Sydney Rock Oyster
Pacific Oyster

Need

Value for money

The industry comprises around 970 small owner operator businesses throughout Australia. Each state has an industry council to coordinate a strategic approach to its R&D priorities. The Seafood CRC has provided a unique opportunity for the oyster industry by providing an opportunity for future growth but it is contingent upon coordinated investment in industry development at the whole of industry level.

The oyster consortium is a collegial group of Industry bodies and private companies and represents the cutting edge or Research and development in the oyster industry. By forming the consortium the oyster industry has become a core participant in the Seafood CRC and will deliver a strategic approach to R&D to maximize returns.

This proposal will provide the resources to ensure that the outcomes of the research and development undertaken through the CRC are adopted and commercialised quickly and extensively throughout the Australian Oyster industry. Without this coordination it will be very difficult to achieve the change at the extent and rate necessary to achieve the growth targets for the industry.

Level of Impact

The Oyster Consortium will be pivotal in achieving the CRC objective with respect to the Oyster industry and will be responsible for meeting two distinct needs involved in their national R&D strategy;
1. The strategic issues of R&D prioritization, funding and the linkages to (and support for) both industry development plans and Government objectives of industry development.

2. The operational issues of facilitating effective communication and coordination at all levels (industry/researchers, among researchers, among industry, FRDC/researchers etc).

Objectives

1. Manage a national strategic approach to oyster research and development.
2. Manage project developemt on a state by state basis
3. Manage and implement a communications plan to keep end-users, researchers and funding agencies informed and ensure research results are rapidly and widely adopted.
4. To estabilish and maintain collaboration within projects for the oyster industry
5. Represent the Oyster consortium at Seafood CRC core participant meeting.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9871613-0-7
Author: Rachel King
Final Report • 2011-06-01 • 1,004.78 KB
2007-715-DLD.pdf

Summary

CRC project 2007/715: “Seafood CRC - Oyster consortium - communication, extension and management of R&D results” was needed to ensure return on investment in oyster R & D, was seen as essential for industry change and to achieve the growth targets for the industry.

The Oyster Consortium formed in 2007 to become a core CRC participant but consisted of state based industry councils and commercial entities. The state based councils represent 970 small owner operator businesses throughout Australia.  Strategy, co-ordination and facilitating effective communication were identified as crucial to ensuring that CRC research outcomes were adopted and commercialised quickly and extensively throughout the Australian Oyster industry.

Adoption

Sustainable development of Tropical Australia: R&D for management of land, water and marine resources

Project number: 1998-213
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $25,085.00
Principal Investigator: Ian Poiner
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 1998 - 22 Oct 1999
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Resource Access And Allocation

Need

In response to the need for sustainable development of tropical Australia, CSIRO (Divisions of Marine Research, Tropical Agriculture, and Land and Water) in collaboration with State and Territory Departments (Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia), and the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC) and Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) are developing a project which aims to overcome the significant gaps that exist in current knowledge relating to the impacts of catchments and their associated land uses on the coastal zone and to integrate current and new knowledge to underpin the development of negotiated approaches to multiple use management.

The project will by necessity require strong integration across a range of physical, chemical, biological, economic and social disciplines. The integration of scientific knowledge with a broad suite of innovative approaches to regional planning will allow new benchmarks that exceed current practice in natural resource management. As such, it is likely that the proposed project could serve as a model for future work and, in so doing, deliver significant benefits to both tropical Australia and the nation.

Objectives

1. Identify natural resources priority issues with stakeholders, and determine their management priority, R&D needs, and institutional and organisational capacity
2. Identify and review existing natural resource management data, process understanding and information
3. Examine and critically review opportunities for R&D to underpin improved natural resource management and identify potential obstacles and risks to R&D in natural resource management
4. Specify R&D priorities to underpin improved natural resource management and options for implementation.

Final report

ISBN: 0 642 26751 0
Author: Ian Poiner and Andrew Johnson
Final Report • 1999-03-08 • 834.06 KB
1998-213-DLD.pdf

Summary

In May 1998, CSIRO Marine Research and Tropical Agriculture were commissioned by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC) to undertake a six-month scoping study to examine opportunities for the development of research proposal(s) aimed at supporting the sustainable development of land, water and marine resources in tropical Australia. The study region extends westwards from the Cape York Peninsula to the Broome region in Western Australia.

This scoping study builds on a workshop held at CSIRO Marine Research, Cleveland, in September 1997 to consider issues for the sustainable development of marine resources in northern Australia, and on two major reports: one to the former Meat Research Corporation (now Meat and Livestock Australia) on the impacts of grazing in northern catchments; the other to the FRDC on the R&D needs for marine habitats to sustain fisheries production. However, this study differs from previous work by being an integrated attempt to address the question of natural resource use from land to sea. It is also unique in its approach, which involved interviews of stakeholders (85 people from 61 organisations) and a review of the literature from the terrestrial through to the marine environment. In addition to technical questions, we also considered the effectiveness of institutions, and the capacity of regional stakeholders to support the planning and management of natural resources. We also substantively incorporate Indigenous issues and needs within this review.

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Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-006
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

ESD Reporting and Assessment Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption

The second stage of the operation of the ESD Subprogram was successful, but compared to the focus during the first subprogram period, mostly in a consolidation manner rather than from the generation of significant new tools. This was necessary because it takes time to adopt and integrate...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
TAGS
Training
Sustainability
Social Science
Social Science
Policy

Northern Territory strategic plan for fisheries research and development 2002 to 2006

Project number: 2001-318
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $14,875.00
Principal Investigator: Richard Sellers
Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (NT)
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2002 - 31 Jul 2003
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Trade
Supply Chain
Marketing
Health And Safety
Food Safety

Need

Since its publication the Plan has provided both the Fisheries Division and the NT FRAB with a firm basis for assessing R&D proposals and R&D projects submitted for FRAB approval and support with FRDC.

However, there have been significant changes in NT Government directions and priorities since 1999 and the Plan is now becoming out-of-date. These Government policy changes include:

? Greater emphasis on recreational fishing
? Increased prominence being given to aquaculture development, both large and small scale
? Increased pressure for research on habitat and biodiversity conservation
? The requirement to report on all aspects of ESD.

As well as these government policy changes, there is also a need for stakeholders, especially from industry, to evaluate the implementation of projects, their outcomes, performance and actual achievements under the Plan.

Also since publication of the Plan FRDC has provided it's R&D Plan in the publication "Investing for Tomorrow's Fish: the FRDC's Research and Development Plan, 2000 to 2005".

The NT fisheries R&D Plan will be revised to take account of these NT policy changes, performance evaluation by stakeholders, to align it with the directions provided in the new FRDC Research and Development Plan, and to bring up-to-date projects that have been carried out since its publication.

Publication costs were kept to a minimum for the original NT Plan by the NT Fisheries Division arranging presentation, art work and printing in-house. However, in view of the higher profile that the revised document will have amongst fisheries stakeholders, a professionally designed presentation is planned for the revised version.

Objectives

1. Review research and development priorities for NT Fisheries
2. provide the NT Government, fisheries stakeholders, the NT FRAB and FRDC with an updated coordinated research and development strategic Plan that has been fully discussed and accepted by NT fisheries stakeholders

Final report

Author: Richard Sellers and Richard Slack-Smith
Final Report • 2002-12-20 • 2.93 MB
2001-318-DLD.pdf

Summary

Since publication of the original Plan in early 1999 there have been significant changes in NT Government directions and priorities that required the Plan be updated. These included:
Greater emphasis on recreational fishing;  Increased prominence being given to aquaculture development, both large and small scale;  Increased pressure for research on habitat and biodiversity conservation;  The requirement to take account and report on all aspects of ecologically sustainable development (ESD);  and Creation of business partnerships between traditional owners and the private sector.
 
In addition, a number of projects in the 1998 original have been completed, modified or abandoned making the Plan out of date in a number of aspects. As part of the revision of that Plan, these changes were tabulated and any management action or other outcomes listed.
 
The review was carried out by:
1. Preparing up-to-date summaries tables of the current status of projects identified under each of the fishery/activities in the original Plan. These included any management action or actual outcomes that may have resulted from the project. R&D projects that have commenced since the publication of the 1999 Plan were also identified.
2. Consultations and discussions were held with fisheries stakeholders on the past performance of R&D projects carried out under the existing plan, the current R&D situation and future R&D directions.
The stakeholder groups consulted included:  Aquaculture operators;  Seafood Harvesters;  Seafood Processors and Marketers;  Seafood consumers;  Fishing Tour Operators;  Recreational Fishers;  Indigenous Users.
3. Preparation of new Plan using information from the first phase and the outcomes from the consultations with stakeholders consulted. This Plan contained tables summarising the planned outcomes, specific R&D outputs, relevant projects with priorities and timetables for each. Stakeholder participation for each relevant fishery or activity was also tabulated.
 
This draft Plan was then considered at a workshop where people and organisations already consulted were participants. Any additional material or valid comments resulting from the workshop were incorporated into the final draft Plan.
It was decided that the final Plan would be in two formats, the first would be publication of the full report on the NT D BIRD website and the second would be a summary version to be commercially printed. The later was in summary form to reduce printing costs.
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