Published: 20 July 2021 Updated: 25 September 2024
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Overview

Every five years, the FRDC re-aligns organisational focus with contemporary end-user needs in the process of developing its research and development (R&D) plan.

FRDC’s R&D Plan 2020-2025 seeks to respond to the ambition of the diverse stakeholders from across fishing and aquaculture, focusing on big, cross-sectoral issues of national importance while also ensuring that jurisdictional and sector needs are met. The R&D Plan 2020-2025 focuses on outcomes in five key areas, supported by five enabling strategies designed to ensure outcomes are faster and easier.

 

R&D Plan - Outcomes and Enabling Strategies model

 

The FRDC prepares Annual Operational Plans (AOPs) each financial year to guide practical delivery of the current R&D plan, describing what will be done next to enable strategies to be achieved. The purpose of each AOP is to respond to the issues and challenges affecting fishing and aquaculture in Australia, setting out strategies to achieve the outcomes described within the current R&D plan and the activities that sit under each of those strategies. Each AOP also summarises income and expenditure that will underpin planned activities.

Stakeholder planning workshop

FRDC’s 2022-23 Annual Operational Plan identifies ten strategic shared opportunities, that were scoped and refined with input from stakeholders across fishing and aquaculture through the Annual Stakeholder Workshop, summarised below: 

10 Shared Strategic Opportunities (AOP 2022-23)

10 Shared Strategic Opportunities - AOP2022-23

 

FRDC will deliver dedicated investment in these areas over the life of FRDC’s R&D Plan. This will complement investment in other key areas including trade diversification, production and profitability optimisation, and innovation to improve preparedness and competitiveness. 

Factsheets

Below are downloadable fact sheets that support our commitment to delivering on the shared strategic opportunities:

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Activate a program to improve the resilience of fishing and aquaculture to a changing climate

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Activate program to aid transitioning of fishing and aquaculture into a circular economy

FRDC Strategic investment opportunities: Investigate opportunities to optimise equitable sharing and security of access to Australia’s aquatic resources

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Understand and respond to threats and opportunities presented by alternative proteins<br />

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Activate a program to improve the resilience of fishing and aquaculture to a changing climate

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Activate program to aid transitioning of fishing and aquaculture into a circular economy FRDC Strategic investment opportunities: Investigate opportunities to optimise equitable sharing and security of access to Australia’s aquatic resources

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Understand and respond to threats and opportunities presented by alternative proteins

 

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Partner to increase opportunities for Indigenous communities in fishing and aquaculture

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Collaborate across agriculture, fisheries and forestry to target shared strategic issues

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Bring together a collective to lay foundations for successful digital transformation

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Explore opportunities to enhance national sustainability reporting

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Partner to increase opportunities for Indigenous communities in fishing and aquaculture FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Collaborate across agriculture, fisheries and forestry to target shared strategic issues FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Bring together a collective to lay foundations for successful digital transformation

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Explore opportunities to enhance national sustainability reporting

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Initiate an expanded program to build capability and capacity across fishing and aquaculture

FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Deployment of regional network to facilitate greater adoption of R&D

   
FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Initiate an expanded program to build capability and capacity across fishing and aquaculture FRDC Strategic investment opportunity: Deployment of regional network to facilitate greater adoption of R&D