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PROJECT NUMBER • 2020-126
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Australian Agrifood Data Exchange (OzAg Data Exchange): Deliver an interconnected data highway for Australia's AgriFood value chain - Proof of concept

Pain point: The delay in exchange and reconciliation of catch data by fishers and processors means that there is a delay in quota accounting which impacts planning due to lack of timely information. Furthermore, with no access to pre-fishing information data to the processors means they are unable...
ORGANISATION:
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
TAGS
Traceability
Digitisation
Data
PRESENTATION
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PUBLISHED DATE:
Experiment 4 Demo – compliance and traceability for rock lobster quota in Western Australia by Telstra IBM.pdf
 
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DAFF National Agriculture Traceability Regulatory Technology Research and Insights Grant: Australian AgriFood Data Exchange - Ag sector traceability transformation delivered through an interoperable data platform and exchange

Project number: 2022-197
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $500,000.00
Principal Investigator: Irene Sobotta
Organisation: Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Project start/end date: 18 Jun 2023 - 29 Jun 2025
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Data
Analytics

Need

Regulatory efficiency and compliance across agricultural supply chains is hindered by inefficient, incompatible or unavailable data and systems that prevent creation of robust, interoperable traceability solutions. The Australian AgriFood Data Exchange (AAFDX) will solve this challenge by creating a secure, cloud-based platform enabling government, industry and other participants to share, re-use and merge data from disparate systems in a secure, controlled manner. The AAFDX will be a modern, efficient, internationally recognised data infrastructure enabling regulators and industry to better manage compliance, stimulate innovation and supply chain performance, assure consumers, coordinate biosecurity and export market access, through enhanced traceability. The funding will build the minimal viable product, with expansion to specific traceability and compliance applications. The AAFDX will endure beyond the funding period with partner co-investment and a user pays revenue stream

Objectives

1. Deliver a minimum viable product (MVP) of the Australian Agrifood Data Exchange services
2. Develop a platform that facilitates applications/solutions that increase traceability, productivity, compliance, profitability
3. Develop governance arrangements to ensure that data security, and in turn users trust in ag-tech is not compromised
4. Build digital maturity of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors to engage in the potential, permissioned shared data offers

Australian Fisheries Management Forum Data and Digital Sharing Working Group Digital Strategy

Project number: 2022-097
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $40,000.00
Principal Investigator: Andrew Skinner
Organisation: More Than Machines Pty Ltd (MTM)
Project start/end date: 6 Apr 2023 - 2 Dec 2023
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Data

Need

The project application is based on the findings of the recent survey of Australian fisheries jurisdictions commissioned by the AFMF regarding current and possible future use of industry digital systems. It is also an outcome of the combined expertise of the members of the AFMF Digital and Data Working group developing and using digital fisheries technologies including vessel monitoring systems (VMS), electronic logbooks (E-logs), on-line quota trading and electronic monitoring (E-monitoring).

The project will develop a national fisheries digital strategy that considers the use of digital technologies, data sharing and data governance as they relate to government fisheries agencies, fishing industry sectors and eNGOs with an interest in fisheries. It will consider past initiatives, the current state of the industry and future directions.

More than Machines will initially use the findings of the Current & Future Digital Data Systems in Australian Fisheries survey as a basis for the development of the digital strategy and rely heavily on Fishery and industry stakeholder consultation and co-creation to further develop the Fisheries digital strategy and to achieve the desired future ready outcomes. While the strategy will be designed to guide Fisheries it is acknowledged that the ultimate customers are the industry stakeholders so their consultation is essential.

The project will consider the current state of digitisation of the Australian Fisheries industries, current activities as well as Fisheries and industry projects already underway to put forward investment priorities, activities and the principles against which opportunities may be evaluated. While the content of the strategy will be driven by consultation, the strategy will ensure outcomes that enable and promote:

Collaboration and Interoperability
Acknowledging and further understanding current challenges with sharing data within Fisheries and between Fisheries and their industries, the strategy will consider whole of sector approaches to data sharing, API development, fishery data platforms, specifications and investments that encourage interoperability and build trust sharing and leveraging data between fisheries, within supply chains, between industry organisations, with industry statutory bodies and with government.

Standards and Governance
Through stakeholder consultation the strategy will prioritise and provide strategic alignment for the development of enabling Australian fisheries digital standards for data that also consider the needs and requirements for working within global markets. This will include consideration of a national fisheries digital governance framework aimed at building trust and providing the policies and procedures for data management that will provide consistency of use, security and quality of data to build data owner trust across the sector.

Development of enabling platforms.
The strategy will consider the opportunities for fishery collaboration to develop core enabling digital infrastructure. This will be approached through the lens of understanding fisheries requirements, identifying commonalities and providing common investment opportunities. Additionally, ongoing initiatives currently underway across Australian Agriculture such as the Australian Agrifood Data Exchange data sharing platform will be considered and proposed where relevant.

Improved efficiencies, removing duplication, optimised use of available funding.
The development of the strategy will include consideration of projects already in flight and opportunities to remove current areas of duplication as well as specifically providing future investment priorities that will de-duplicate effort and optimise the use of available funding to force multiply outcomes across fisheries.

Digital Capability
Finally the development of overall digital capability across fisheries will be considered to ensure the workforce is prepared for and capable of intrinsically using digital technologies, identifying opportunities and business cases for the adoption of digital technology and able to receive the benefits that digital technologies can provide. The strategy will consider the investment priorities and partnerships that will need to be developed to achieve this.

It is intended that the strategy is endorsed by the AFMF Digital and Data Working group and AFMF stakeholders. The strategy will be a core Fisheries document, guiding jurisdictional collaboration, priorities and investment across industry and government to force multiply effort and provide a step change in digital adoption across Australian Fisheries.
The project will develop a national fisheries digital strategy that considers the use of digital technologies as they relate to government fisheries agencies, fishing industry sectors and eNGOs with an interest in fisheries. It will consider past initiatives, the current state of the industry and future directions.

Objectives

1. Determine position: Validate and expand on the recommendations of the FutureCatch Consulting survey to define the priorities of the Digital Strategy through consultation and co-creation.
2. Development: Curate and set priorities from consultation process gaining endorsement from he AFMF Digital and Data Working Group and AFMF members.
3. Plan: Identify KPIs and iteratively collaborate with the AFMF Working Group to develop the final draft of the strategy.
4. Manage Performance: Finalise the strategy and receive approval from the AFMF Working Group and AFMF stakeholders for publication.
5. Monitor: Develop a progress and performance reporting approach for future performance management.

Assessing current data and alternate data collection methods relating to recreational catches of tropical tuna and billfishes

Project number: 2022-173
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $249,442.00
Principal Investigator: Barrett W. Wolfe
Organisation: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Hobart
Project start/end date: 29 May 2023 - 30 Jun 2025
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Recreational Fishing
Rac Cmwth
Game Fishing
Fisheries Management
SPECIES
Tunas
Marlins

Need

The recreational sector of the Tropical Tuna and Billfish Fishery (TTBF) is an important component of the overall fishery. The recreational fishery has a number of distinct components – the organized club-based sector, the non-club sector and the charter sector. Some catch and catch-effort data, although incomplete, are available from the club-based and charter sectors, while data from the non-club sector, including the magnitude of that sector, are largely lacking. These uncertainties and gaps mean that the total Australian catch by the sector is unknown. However, recreational data may provide relative indicators of stock and fishery performance through time (e.g., CPUE), which could be valuable for monitoring TTBF stocks and the quality of the recreational fishery. This project will summarise existing recreational data available for the TTBF and evaluate their utility for monitoring, to guide immediate application and identify areas requiring further development.

A large component of the total catch of the TTBF recreational sector, is released. Post release mortality is a re-occurring question that has been studied to some extent by the use of satellite telemetry in some target species (striped marlin, swordfish and to a lesser extent, yellowfin tuna). This project will additionally review available data for release rates which are required to apply estimates of post release mortality over the whole fishery.

While all five target species of the TTBF are also caught by the recreational sector, two species – striped marlin and yellowfin tuna – are particularly numerically important. In addition, a relatively new recreational fishery for swordfish has emerged in Victorian and Tasmanian waters, with potential to spread to other States, but is largely unmonitored. This project will assess these important species.

Aside from the five commercial target species within the TTBF, the recreational sector also targets and highly values other billfish species, especially black marlin, blue marlin and sailfish. These species are also caught as bycatch of the domestic commercial sector, although blue and black marlin are not permitted to be landed by commercial licence holders and are therefore discarded. Recreational data sources may provide the only cost-effective monitoring option for stocks of these non-commercial species.

Objectives

1. Review traditional and contemporary, cost-effective sources of recreational and charter catch and catch-effort data for Tropical Tuna and Billfish (including assumption and limitations of the data as well as a cost benefit analysis of methods)
2. Collate available data sources to improve the understanding of the potential catch on local abundance/availability of commercial, recreational and charter target species
3. Provide recommendations on how recreational and charter catch data might be collected, standardized, and integrated in future decision-making
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-134
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Progressing the National Fisheries Digital Data Framework - Industry consultation

Spreadsheet mapping fisheries logbook fields and the legislation that governs the collection of this information for all fisheries management jurisdictions
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
TAGS
Supply Chain
Data
Automation
App
FINAL REPORT
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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 Aug 2020
2017-134-DLD-Review.pdf
WORKSHOP
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PUBLISHED DATE: 01 May 2018
2017-134-DLD-Minutes.pdf
RESEARCH DATA
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PUBLISHED DATE:
2017-134-DLD.xlsx
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