Project number: 2008-740
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: John Dawes
Organisation: University of South Australia
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2008 - 31 Jul 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Today, the Sydney Fish Market does not use the vast amount of data that are automatically collected during the auction sales. This project will help to understand how species ‘perform’ as brands. In our perspective, this database extending over 10 years is unique that will help the Seafood CRC and the Sydney Fish Market to better understand supplier and buyer behavior, and therefore better understand the Australian fish market structure.

Knowledge that will be created can be extended to other similar Australian fish exchanges, ultimately resulting in a very good understanding of the structure of the Australian fish market. As mentioned before, analyzing such a market has never previously been done, this project represents an important opportunity for the PhD to contribute and add value to the seafood industry.

By increasing our understanding of the behaviour of buyers and suppliers of seafood within an established theoretical framework, this project mainly relates to the program 1 ‘value chain profitability’, output 1.6 ‘Removal or reduction of barriers to seafood consumption’, Milestone 1.6.1 ‘Barriers to and drivers of seafood consumption’. The project is in line with the objectives stated in the first version of the ‘Sellfish Theme Business Plan’.

A presentation was given to the Sydney Fish Market with the aim of gaining the support of the SFM for such a project (07/04/08). Both the Marketing Manager (Louise Nock) and the Managing Director (Grahame Turk) were excited with the project and have given their full support to the project, which includes access to the database by the PhD candidate.

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-082
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics 2022

1. To maintain and improve the data base of production, gross value of production and trade statistics for the Australian fishing industry, including aquaculture.
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ABARES
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