• Stakeholder feedback from both industry and management has indicated a need to ensure marine heatwave impacts can meaningfully be incorporated into decision making processes. This need has been identified through feedback at question time following several of the Marine Heatwave webinar series delivered for FRDC by BoM and CSIRO, and through FRDC’s Climate Resilience strategic Theory of Change workshops held in February and May 2025.
• A project application proposing to answer ecological and biological impact data gaps for management was submitted by CSIRO in late 2024.
• However, it has also been identified that monitoring for management is a cost burden borne by fishers, and that additional monitoring efforts must be as efficient and cost-effective as possible.
• Several jurisdictions have indicated interest in incorporating climate impacts (including marine heatwave) as a part of their management strategies.
• However, there are differences in research uptake among jurisdictions that is not well understood.