Seafood Trade Assistance Directory
Implementing and evaluating the Australian Seafood Trade Agenda 2016 - 2018 - Seafood Trade Advisory Group (STAG)
Seafood CRC: Seafood trade and market access portal
Seafood CRC: seafood trade expert panel (SafeFish)
The members of the SAF (industry and government) have recognized the need to provide coordinated, cohesive and robust technical advice to support Australian negotiators and delegations dealing with trade and market access issues. While this expertise is variously available from different sources a more cohesive and collaborative approach will help:
a) ensure that the most appropriate technical expertise is available to support Australian trade negotiations relating to seafood
b) coordinate robust technical advice for input to international trade fora such as Codex and bilateral and multilateral trade agreement discussions
c) deliver a multi disciplinary approach to often very complex trade issues and ensure that Seafood CRC participant business operations and practices are considered in developing Australia’s negotiating positions
d) foster open communication between Australia’s technical trade experts and assist early detection of issues
e) provide a forum for debate and discussion about technical trade issues and their impact on the CRC participant businesses
f) create an international technical trade network and enable Australia’s experts to identify and act on opportunities for national and international collaboration
g) facilitate professional development of existing and new people with technical trade expertise.
Final report
SafeFish originated from the recognition by the members of the former Seafood Access Forum (SAF) (industry and government) of the need to provide coordinated, cohesive and robust technical advice to support Australian negotiators and delegations dealing with trade and market access issues related to food safety. While this expertise was variously available from different sources a more cohesive collaborative approach was required to bring together all relevant stakeholders (industry, scientists, government, and regulators) more collectively. This was the origin of the partnership approach known originally as the Seafood Trade Expert Panel which was then renamed SafeFish in 2011. This project was responsible for ensuring the most appropriate technical expertise was available to support Australian trade negotiations relating to seafood and to coordinate robust technical advice for input to international trade fora such as Codex and bilateral and multilateral trade agreement discussions.
SafeFish has been very successful in delivering a multi-disciplinary approach to often very complex trade issues which has ensured that Seafood CRC participant business operations and practices were considered in developing Australia’s negotiating positions
Project products
Seafood Trade Advisory Group - transitioning to a new communications, governance and operating model
International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade Conference (IIFET) 2014
Australia is at the forefront of economics based fisheries management, with explicit targets of maximum economic yield in Commonwealth fisheries and strong economic efficiency objectives in most States. The need to improve economic research capability in Australia to meet the needs of these management objectives has been recognized by FRDC through the economic capacity building project (FRDC 2008/306) and funding from the Seafood CRC to run a series of "Master classes" for managers and industry to explain the basic economic concepts that apply to fisheries management. While these programs have been successful, there is substantial benefit in attracting the world's best fisheries economists to present new ideas and methods that can ultimately benefit Australian fisheries and aquaculture industries. The aim of the conference is to attract such economists as well as practitioners (managers and industry) with strong economic focus. This also provides an opportunity to showcase the work being undertaken in Australia to an international audience, gaining strong feedback that will ultimately lead to improved economic analyses and hence management of Australian fisheries.