• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

A National RD&E Workshop was held on 21 September 2018 in Adelaide, South Australia, in which representatives of industry, research, management, and service providers addressed how to make a positive difference to the mental health of people in fisheries and aquaculture.

The impetus for the workshop came from the FRDC Board and the FRDC’s Seafood Safety and Welfare Initiative. Both the Board and the Initiative are responding to the range of tactical industry-led activities commencing or proposed to address falling levels of mental health among members; the need for a gap analysis of available RD&E; and, to better acknowledge the link between mental health and workplace health and safety.

Participants established the level of leadership and commitment, reviewed the current state of knowledge of mental health levels and contributing factors, and compared what strategies supporting mental health are currently available within fisheries and aquaculture with evidence-based strategies from the mental health support sector.

• There is no single seafood industry COVID-19 story. The degree of exposure, impact and recovery for sectors and businesses, whether wild caught or farmed, varied in magnitude, ranging from positive, neutral, negative and in a few cases, catastrophic.
• Between January-June 2020, overall domestic production initially fell but then re-bounded from April 2020 onwards. This can be attributed to the declaration of the seafood supply chains as essential, the easing of COVID-19 restrictions halfway through the period, and the ability of producers to find and adapt to alternative markets.
• Sectors negatively impacted by COVID-19 were those exporting live and fresh product, supplying dine-in food service, heavily reliant on international air freight and affected by movement restrictions.
• Live and fresh export products were significantly negatively impacted due to a decline in both price and volume, e.g. the value of Lobster and Abalone exports declined by 45%, while live and fresh seafood exports overall declined in value by 32% compared with the five-year average for the same period.
• Sectors positively impacted were those supplying domestic retail and take-away food service markets which normally compete with fresh international imports. These sectors experienced a rise in demand and in some cases, price. As a result, value of these types of domestically sold products generally remained relatively stable with any decline in production volumes offset by rising domestic prices.
• Forecasts of profits for 2020, particularly wild-catch, have been lower. This has been attributed to lower revenues and increases in some operating costs, particularly transaction costs in adapting to COVID-19 prevention measures. Sectors experiencing price gains or successfully accessing alternative markets also experienced substantial transaction costs as a result of adaptation to ensure business continuity.

• Across the industry, business uncertainty related to COVID-19 was amplified by the effects of other factors affecting this uncertainty e.g. bushfires, drought, exchange rates.
• Government support measures have assisted the seafood industry weather some of the negative impacts on profitability and business continuity.
• The COVID-19 disruption continues, and further indirect effects are being experienced. What seafood industry recovery looks like and how resilience can be built is still evolving.
• Differences in degree of exposure, impact and recovery will continue across sectors of the Australian seafood industry.

• Data about production, immediate post-harvest, wholesale and processing, transport and freight logistics, and markets activities has been sourced and collated in this rapid assessment to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the Australian seafood industry across its supply chain stages.
• Data gaps exist. Timely access to near-real time data from all jurisdictions and from major seafood markets is needed to enable more targeted economic analysis at the sector level. This is particularly the case for aquaculture sectors.
• Further assessment of longer-term and emerging impacts based on more timely and comprehensive data will further support the Australian seafood industry in being prepared for future disruptions.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.

The use of transferable fishing rights has increased internationally over recent decades with most industrialised countries now using some form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) or individual transferable effort (ITE) system for at least some of their fisheries. Australia also has considerable experience in the use of ITQs and ITEs, with examples of ITQ or ITE management in each State and also Commonwealth fisheries.