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Fisheries managers workshop

Project number: 2017-116
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $16,000.00
Principal Investigator: Claire Andersen
Organisation: Department of Primary Industries (QLD)
Project start/end date: 17 Sep 2017 - 28 Feb 2018
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Given increasing complexity in fisheries management and additional scrutiny on managers, there is a need for fisheries managers from the different jurisdictions to meet as a group to exchange ideas and initiatives and build networks. The Australian Fisheries Management Forum (AFMF), comprised of the respective heads of Commonwealth and State/Territory management agencies, supports the need for such a forum.

Similar cross-fertilisation forums exist between researchers through the Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) and the National Compliance Committee for compliance officers.

It has been a considerable period since fisheries managers workshops were last held. Previous workshops occurred in the 1980s and early 1990s. In March 2014, a two-day national fisheries management workshop was held in Adelaide at the South Australian Aquatic Sciences Centre. This workshop was overseen by the AFMF’s Fisheries Management Sub-Committee (FMSC), with funding support from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC). Recommendations arising from this workshop included convening a subsequent fisheries managers workshop in 12-24 months and the formation of an Australian Professional Fisheries Management Society.

As an interim arrangement pending the potential formation of a professional fisheries managers society as a chapter of ASFB, the FMSC has agreed to hold another fisheries managers workshop, which Queensland will host in October 2017.

Future workshops will be held to coincide with ASFB annually (starting in 2018).

Objectives

1. Hold workshop to solidify the fisheries management working group as part of AFMF
Industry
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-306
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

2005 Australian Society for Fish Biology Workshop & 2005 International Barramundi Workshop

The 2005 ASFB Workshop was hosted by the Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines in Darwin on 11-12 July 2005. The workshop explored the theme ‘Monitoring Fish Stocks and Aquatic Ecosystems’. The event attracted 138 delegates from Australia, New Zealand, Africa and North...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Society For Fish Biology Inc
SPECIES
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 1993-131
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Shellfish diseases workshop

A 5-day, intensive Shellfish Diseases Workshop was held at NSW Fisheries' Brackish Water Fish Culture Research Station, Salamander Bay, from 6-10 December 1993. The workshop was organized by Sub-Committee on Fish Health, a sub-committee of Animal Health Committee. It was attended by...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1991-091
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

International Workshop on ciguatera management

An International Workshop on Ciguatera Management was held at QDPI's Joondoburri Conference Centre on Bribie Island, 13-16 April 1993. This meeting provided the first opportunity for discussion of issues related to ciguatera at an international forum in Australia. Fifty-six registrants participated...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries (QLD)

AAHL Fish Diseases Laboratory bacteriology workshop

Project number: 2000-149
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $35,604.99
Principal Investigator: Nick Gudkovs
Organisation: CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Project start/end date: 18 Dec 2000 - 30 Dec 2001
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Diagnostic laboratories across the country vary in their diagnostic capability for aquatic animal pathogens. Due to their individual needs, many diagnostic laboratories have developed their own reagents and procedures for the identification of bacterial pathogens. This lack of standardisation can be problematical, for example, when reporting on aquatic animal health status. Using Vibrio identification as an example, it is likely that diagnostic laboratories would be capable of identification to the genus level (i.e. Vibrio sp.). However, due to differences in the various laboratories, identification to the species level would be difficult, and different laboratories are likely to use different procedures for identification.

There is a clear need for diagnostic scientists working in this area to compare and standardise protocols between States. A series of workshops aimed at providing training in the diagnosis of bacterial disease in aquatic animals for those new to the area, and at the same time providing an opportunity to evaluate the various diagnostic protocols used in Australia for their ability to identify both enzootic and exotic pathogens is overdue.

Development of Standard Diagnostic Techniques will require three logical steps:

1. Comparison and evaluation of the tests currently used by diagnostic laboratories;
2. Development of, and agreement on, the most sensitive, accurate and reproducible methods;
3. Adoption and publication of the agreed method for each pathogen as the Standard Diagnostic Technique.

Thus development of SDTs in aquatic animal bacteriology may include an SDT on general methods for aquatic animal bacteriology followed by SDTs for specific diseases such as Vibriosis. Vibriosis, due to its widespread occurence in vertebrate and invertebrate aquatic animal species in tropical and temperate regions of Australia, was identified as a disease of particular importance with respect to standardisation of diagnostic methods [1].

In order to ensure that the SDTs incorporate the latest technologies and information on exotic, as well as enzootic, bacterial pathogens, and that the SDTs will be recognised internationally as state-of-the-art, an international expert on the specific disease will be invited to participate in each of the respective workshops.

References

1. Fish Health Management Committee (1998). Report of the Fish Health Management Committee and the Fish Health Coordinating Group: Workshop on Aquatic Animal Health: Technical Issues, 7-9 December 1998, Melbourne, Victoria.

Objectives

1. Introductory Workshop in Fish Bacteriology - to provide training in basic diagnostic techniques for the major diseases of salmonids and other finfish.
2. Bacteriology Workshop - Diagnosis of Vibriosis in aquatic animals.
3. Preparation and submission of a report recommending bacteriological methods for aquatic animals for inclusion in Australian Standard Diagnostic Techniques (SDTs), and agreement on authorship, provided to the Aquatic Animal Health Unit, National Office of Animal and Plant Health.

Final report

Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-235
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Fisheries Managers' Workshop

A national fisheries management workshop was held at the South Australian Aquatic Sciences Centre in Adelaide on 26/27 March 2014, which brought together fisheries managers from all Australian jurisdictions. The idea of holding a workshop was promoted by the Australian Fisheries Management...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
People
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-096
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Workshop - Aquaculture opportunities in northern Australia: Solutions and Strategies

This report provides a summary of the ‘Aquaculture opportunities in northern Australia: Solutions and Strategies Workshop’ held in Rockhampton, 5-6 February 2020. This FRDC project supported James Cook University, the Australian Barramundi Farmers Association, Australian Prawn Farmers...
ORGANISATION:
James Cook University (JCU)
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