Tactical Research Fund

Tactical Research Fund: 2014 independent sampling program for the Australian herring fishery

Project number: 2013-061

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $30,000.00

Principal Investigator: Jeremy D. Prince

Organisation: Western Australian Fishing Industry Council Inc (WAFIC)

Project start/end date: 9 Apr 2014 - 29 May 2014

Contact:

FRDC

SPECIES

Australian Herring

Need

Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

Objectives

Commercial in confidence

Related research

All research

PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-166

PROJECT STATUS:

CURRENT

Bringing the iconic Australian Herring (Arripis georgianus) to the food service and retail market – phase one

1. Identification of the current market demand and future demand forecasts for Australian Herring.

ORGANISATION:

Blueshift Consulting

PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-157

PROJECT STATUS:

CURRENT

Bringing the iconic Australian Herring (Arripis georgianus) to the food service and retail market – phase two

1. Identify options to value add and (where possible) fully utilise the Australia Herring through the human consumption market

ORGANISATION:

Curtin University

PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-016

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Improving data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander marine resource use to inform decision-making

1. Conduct national workshops to identify appropriate methodologies for collecting spatially and temporally resolved catch and effort information for a range of indigenous fisheries.

ORGANISATION:

Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)

PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-040

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Tactical Research Fund: development of a risk management plan for marine biotoxins in Tasmanian abalone

ORGANISATION:

SARDI Food Safety and Innovation

Tactical Research Fund: development of an Ipad application for Seafood

Project number: 2011-231

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $13,910.00

Principal Investigator: Martin Bowerman

Organisation: Strategy First PR and Marketing

Project start/end date: 8 Sep 2011 - 3 Oct 2012

Contact:

FRDC

Need

Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

Objectives

Commercial in confidence

Social Science Research Coordination Program: identifying, communicating and integrating social considerations into future management concerns in inshore fisheries in Coastal Queensland

Project number: 2008-073

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $75,000.00

Principal Investigator: Eric Perez

Organisation: Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA)

Project start/end date: 30 Nov 2008 - 31 May 2010

Contact:

FRDC

Need

This study documents the needs and concerns of fishers and their families in Queensland coastal regions to expand the corpus of knowledge about fishing as an industry, for the sake of informing government of social impacts, and to incorporate local social considerations into current and future management plans. The study focuses on how fisheries policies impact on fishers and their families socially and culturally, and how these groups negotiate and respond to political, market and ecologically driven management measures. It is significant as it brings together important but little researched aspects of the impact of management decisions on fishers, families and communities. Research is crucial to understand the social legacy of those decisions on the social wellbeing of fishing communities, including the health and quality of life of fishers, families, and those involved in fisheries-related businesses.

Understanding the social costs of policy decisions can help mitigate harmful physical and mental health outcomes, a situation of critical significance to rural, state and national economies. Fishing families and communities are important; they provide substantial regional employment and income to local economies; they underpin the social fabric of many coastal regions which display a strong fishing cultural heritage and are substantial contributors to the social and economic viability of rural communities. However, their ability to weather the social and economic stressors of closures, especially at times of increasing global fisheries pressures, has received limited attention. Few studies have been conducted on the way fishers and their families perceive and value their status as fishers, and how their worldview influences their quality of life, social wellbeing, and their attitudes towards place and the marine environment. Our findings will be of direct use to policy developers in adopting intrinsic measures for social impact assessment, and in integrating local knowledge into future social impact assessments.

Objectives

1. To examine and compare the attitudes, values and experiences of those involved in viable and vulnerable fisheries, both inshore and offshore, and those fishers and their families who have left the industry

2. To identify the social and cultural impacts, examining wellbeing, quality of life outcomes and social resilience as a result of fishing closures and fishing effort rationalisation

3. To examine adjustments in households amongst fishers and spouses

4. To investigate the ways in which fishers, their families and local communities are adapting to social, economic and ecological change.