PROJECT NUMBER
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1992-125.21
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
Pacific Seafood Management Consulting Group Pty Ltd
15,140 results
FRDC-DCCEE: beach and surf tourism and recreation in Australia: vulnerability and adaptation
Project number:
2010-536
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$430,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Mike Raybould
Organisation:
Bond University
Project start/end date:
31 Dec 2010
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29 Sep 2012
Contact:
FRDC
One of the most likely and immediate projected climate change impacts is an increase in sea levels, which has the potential to critically impact the state and function of coastal systems (CSIRO 2009; DCC 2009, 2010). While there are current investigations and reports on a number of aspects of marine tourism (e.g. diving, fishing and whale watching), there is no national study on the tourism value of beaches, arguably the most valuable and threatened coastal tourism asset.
Work by the applicants has highlighted the social and economic importance of beaches for tourism and recreation in Australian coastal cities (Raybould and Lazarow 2009; Lazarow et al. 2008; Lazarow 2009), which is in turn reliant upon the character and natural state of assets.
This project will provide a national classification of beach and surf assets in key 'seachange' locations chosen for their vulnerability to projected climate changes, also estimating the existing economic importance of critically vulnerable assets. Understanding the economic streams emanating from tourism and recreation linked to these assets, and how changes in resource quality and accessibility will impact on these streams at various time horizons and under different climate change projections will allow communities, industry and decision-makers to make better-informed decisions.
It will also identify key social trigger points which determine; tourism and recreation behaviour, particularly selection of destinations; the economic consequences which flow from changes in behaviour; and the manner in which key stakeholder and user groups will respond to projected climate change scenarios.
1. LGA/site scale identification and assessment of the vulnerability to climate change of assets that are key drivers of marine and coastal tourism and recreation.
2. Valuation of existing income streams due to beach-related tourism and recreation in case study locations
3. Application of valuation tool (developed in previous stage) in identified seachange localities to test transferability of results
4. Identify social and behavioural responses to climate change impacts on vulnerable tourism and recreation assets.
5. Report on the net vulnerability of regional locations to climate change
Final report
SEF Industry Development Subprogram: assessing the commercial viability of utilising fish processing wastes
Project number:
2002-405
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$55,001.00
Principal Investigator:
Ian Knuckey
Organisation:
ASCo
Project start/end date:
19 Oct 2002
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30 May 2005
Contact:
FRDC
With most of Australia's fish stocks near or at full exploitation, it is unlikely that the industy will expand and develop through increased will capture harvest. The main option for increased profits to the seafood industry is throwing away tens of thousands of tonnes of fish waste each year, potentially worth many of millions of dollars. Why? The wastes are produced a t low levels across hundreds of different shops, processors and markets around Australia. Economies of scale prevent any one of these small waste producers (and most of the larger ones) solving the under increased scrutiny due to environmental issues and is therefore becoming an increasing cost burden for the whole industry. The solution lies in a broad-scale coordinated and collaborative, multi jurisdictional approach across the different sectors of the seafood industry supply chain. Don't laugh, by forming ASCo, industry members (catching, processing wholesalers and retailers) from three different states have already agreed in principle and have committed funds to achieving this goal. This may be considered as a high risk commitment, however, as it is not going to be an easy process. The initial stages of structuring the company, developing a business plan and conducting a feasibility analysis will require extensive stakeholder input and collaboration. We are submitting this SIDF proposal to obtain funds to match our industry commitment and help us get through this first stage.
1. Engage with a range of seafood companies that may have an interest in ASCo's goal of adding value to the seafood supply chain through utilisaton of waste fish products.
2. Develop an agreed structure for the fish waste utilisation company that meets the needs of the entire supply chain.
3. Develop a business plan for a fish waste utilisation company that includes a feasibility/economic analysis and a marketing plan.
Final report
ISBN:
0-9756006-1-3
Author:
Ian Knuckey
Final Report
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2006-02-03
2002-405-DLD.pdf
Within the Australian Seafood industry, thousands of tonnes of fish waste are produced by processors and retailers each year. Generally only the fillets are retained and the bulk (~60%) of the product is discarded, often at a cost to the processor and ending up as little more than land-fill. This practice is coming under increased scrutiny due to environmental issues and is becoming an increasing cost burden for the whole industry. Across the seafood industry in south eastern Australia alone, there is an estimate that well over 20,000t of fish product waste is produced each year.
Through the work of FRDC’s SEF Industry Development Subprogram to tackle this issue, a group of key stakeholders in the seafood industry formed Australian Seafood Co-products (ASCo: ACN 100 489 236). The mission of the company is to add value to the seafood supply chain through the sustainable utilisation of fish and fish co-products that are not traditionally utilised or marketed. ASCo has 17 seafood companies as shareholders spanning the five south eastern Australian states. A shareholder’s agreement is now in place and the company directors have now been elected.
ASCo considered a range of options for the utilisation of seafood waste. Given the relatively wide geographical area covered by Australia's seafood industry and the large variability in the amount and composition of species involved, it was agreed that processing the waste into a valuable organic fertiliser was the most suitable option for ASCo at this point in time. With this goal in mind ASCo went into partnership with Sieber, a New Zealand fertiliser company with proven fertiliser technology, technical backup, and partnerships with other established fertiliser companies and the agricultural industry. Sieber already had a range of fish-based fertiliser products in New Zealand with proven benefits to agricultural crops and certification for use in the rapidly growing organic (farming) market.
Keywords: South East Fishery, value-adding, waste utilisation, fertilisers, biological farming.
PROJECT NUMBER
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2013-024
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
ORGANISATION:
OceanWatch Australia Ltd
El-Nemo SE: adaptation of fishing and aquaculture sectors and fisheries management to climate change in South Eastern Australia Work Area 4, Project 1 Development and testing of a national integrated climate change adaptation assessment framework
Project number:
2009-055
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$390,752.09
Principal Investigator:
Vincent Lyne
Organisation:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date:
30 Nov 2009
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31 Aug 2012
Contact:
FRDC
The eastern and south eastern Australian marine waters have been identified as being the most vulnerable geographic area to both climate change impacts and overall exposure in Australia. These changes are expected to have significant implications in the region.
Information on physical changes expected in south-eastern Australia are currently available only through Global Climate Models that provide coarse spatial scales of 1-2 degrees (latitude & longitude). They currently provide almost no information at the scale of coastal upwelling, eddies and fronts which are important factors driving oceanic productivity. These models currently predict global changes in a range of physical variables both in the atmosphere and in the ocean for the 20th (hindcast mode) and 21st (forecast mode) centuries and are currently used in IPCC projections.
Further refined modelling of physical drivers in this region is required to understand drivers at scales relevant to fisheries and aquaculture for driving productivity, distribution and abundance of species. While a number of national (Bluelink) and regional finer-resolution ocean models exist for the SE region (Baird et al model, NSW; Huon Estuary model, Tas; SAROM, SA), in this project outputs from two (Bluelink and SAROM) will be used to inform predictions on biomass, productivity and distributions of key fishery species.
1. To develop a integrating climate change adaptation assessment framework for fisheries and aquaculture, suitable for use regionally and at a national level.
2. To test and apply this framework in the south eastern region to evaulate adaptation response options for stakeholders (managers, fishers, aquaculturalists)
3. To assess the application of the framework to apply to other regions around Australia.
Final report
SCRC: Seafood CRC: International trade negotiations impacting on seafood industry interests
Project number:
2008-735
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$0.00
Principal Investigator:
Andrew Stoler
Organisation:
University of Adelaide Waite Campus
Project start/end date:
29 May 2008
-
30 Jul 2008
Contact:
FRDC
The need for the project was identified at the Seafood Access Forum meetings in January and confirmed at the meeting in March 2008. The report will be a key input to discussions at the SAF meeting scheduled for 17 June 2008.
Final report
ISBN:
978-1-925982-19-0
Author:
Andrew Stoler and Victoria Donaldson
Final Report
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2008-06-06
•
806.35 KB
2008-735-DLD.pdf
Over the past thirty years, international trade in fish and fisheries products has grown significantly and today over 50 percent of the value of fisheries production and about 40 percent of the live weight equivalent of fish and fish products enter international trade. Around the world, some 200 million people are employed in the fisheries sector – mostly in developing countries. At the same time, all but four of the world’s key fishing regions (about 75 percent of the world’s fish stocks) is harvested at or beyond the regions’ sustainable limits.
The Australian seafood sector now achieves gross production worth in excess of AUD$ 2 billion per annum, generates exports worth in excess of AUD$ 1.5 billion, and employs significant numbers of Australians in rural and regional areas of the country. The sector has the potential to be a much bigger contributor to exports, employment and national wealth provided that Governments in Australia undertake to work more effectively with the seafood industry to reduce or eliminate overseas barriers to Australian seafood exports, develop new ways to produce and harvest seafood at home and take steps to ensure that high quality Australian seafood production can be sustainably maintained over time.
SCRC: Seafood CRC: technical market access review
Project number:
2007-712
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$0.00
Principal Investigator:
Kevin Shiell
Organisation:
Vision Rural Services Pty Ltd (VRS)
Project start/end date:
11 Sep 2007
-
20 Jan 2008
Contact:
FRDC
As an input to Business Plan development by the Australian Seafood CRC for the Product Quality and Integrity Research Program, conduct an examination of technical market access and support arrangements to identify current infrastructure and support services relevant to provision of technical market access support within Australian seafood industry
Final report
ISBN:
978-1-925982-03-9
Author:
Kevin Shiell
Final Report
•
2007-12-01
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610.11 KB
2007-712-DLD.pdf
As an input to Business Plan development by the Australian Seafood CRC for the Product Quality and Integrity Research Program this project is to provide an assessment of the infrastructure and priority needs of the Seafood CRC Technical Market Access Support Program.
This project involved an examination of seafood industry technical market access and support arrangements in order to:
- Identify current infrastructure and support services relevant to the provision of technical market access support within the Australian seafood industry
- Identify and detail the infrastructure and support services relevant to the provision of technical market access support within the Australian meat, dairy, horticulture and wine industries.
- To compare and contrast the approaches adopted by these industries and to make an initial assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches.
- Detail current Australian seafood industry product integrity testing capacities and identify any capability gaps
- Identify the current technical support priorities and needs of AQIS, Biosecurity Australia, FSANZ and state food regulators•Identify current technical market access issues and priorities of the CRC end user participants
The study involved website and document research and numerous consultations with seafood industry stakeholders, government organisations as well as with industry representatives from the horticulture, meat, wine and dairy industries.
Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Design and Organisation of a multi-state disease emergency simulation exercise
Project number:
2002-655
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$38,557.00
Principal Investigator:
Iain East
Organisation:
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date:
30 Oct 2002
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30 Jun 2006
Contact:
FRDC
The current program of simulation exercises to be conducted under the auspices of the Federal Budget Initiative is designed to provide individual jurisdictions with training in the management of an aquatic animal disease emergency.
However, within Australia, both marine and freshwater environments cross State/Territory boundaries. The need for inter-jurisdictional co-operation in successful disease control and eradication has not previously been addressed. A current FRDC project, 2002/660 is providing training focussed on the operation of the Consultative Committee on Emergency Animal Diseases, however, the aims and objectives of the current proposal are to develop cooperation at a technical and operational level rather than the strategic level addressed by project 2002/660.
This project is needed to allow the development of the exercise materials and ensure that the exercise is effectively and efficiently planned.
This project submission has been requested by the FRDC Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram.
1. To develop in consultation with a range of government and no-government organisations, a simulation exercise that will effectively address issues of inter-jurisdictional communication and cooperation in response to an emergency disease incident.
2. To engage the States/Territories that share the Murray/Darling Basin in the planning exercise and in doing so, heighten the awareness of these jurisdictions to the potential for incursions of emergency disease.
3. To negotiate funding for the subsequent simulation exercise from a range of participating agencies.
Final report
ISBN:
0-9751859-0-x
PROJECT NUMBER
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1992-125.08
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED
Fish meal production using by-products of commercial fisheries (pilot study)
Fish meal is used extensively as a source of protein in aquaculture feed which represents the major cost constituent in aquaculture production. Commercial fish meals used to manufacture aquaculture feeds in Australia are currently imported from Denmark, Peru, Chile and other countries. These feeds...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
Globefish membership
Project number:
2006-244
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$30,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Jayne M. Gallagher
Organisation:
Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Project start/end date:
28 Sep 2006
-
30 Sep 2006
Contact:
FRDC
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