Project number: 2009-217
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $39,380.00
Principal Investigator: Tom Lewis
Organisation: RDS Partners Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 31 Aug 2009 - 10 Dec 2009
Contact:
FRDC

Need

This proposal is a response to an invitation to tender issued by the FRDC.

The Australian aquaculture and fisheries sectors are among the most diverse and geographically disparate to be managed under any national RD&E framework.

To plan and deliver effective and efficient RD&E services to industry, it is important that government and industry collaborate to understand current RD&E capability and capacity, and match that against current and likely industry demand.

In April 2005, Primary Industries Ministerial Council (PIMC) endorsed the concept of National research with Regional development and Local extension for Primary Industries in Australia. The concept recognises that basic and strategic research (R) can be provided from a distance, with regional adaptive development (D) and local extension (E) required to improve the uptake of innovation by industry.

Subsequently, in April 2006, PIMC agreed to a set of principles to facilitate further cooperation between agencies and industry for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the national RD&E capability. These principles emphasise cooperation, information sharing, maintaining funding, access to capability and reporting.

It was decided that the implementation of the framework would be lead by the relevant Research and Development Corporation supported by Primary Industry Standing Committee (PISC) agencies. A meeting of the PISC Research and Development Sub-Committee and the Council of Research and Development Corporation Chairs on 8 July 2008 ratified that the Fisheries Research Development Corporation (FRDC) and PISC agencies of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania would take the lead in developing a national research, development and extension framework for the fisheries and aquaculture industries.

The framework will be implemented through an assessment of the status of the relevant industries, the completion of an RD&E capability audit (this project), identification of national RD&E priorities and development of a strategy to guide RD&E investment and capability development nationally.

Objectives

1. To audit and assess the existing RD&E capability in the field of fisheries and aquaculture, and their aquatic ecology and biodiversity, within a national context, and including all research providers in this field.
2. To identify the gaps in the current RD&E capability in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture with respect to meeting defined future sector strategic priorities.

Related research

People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-088
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT

FRDC Sponsored RD&E State Awards

Commercial in confidence
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Industry
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
Industry