| Research Driver |
Issue
|
Priority
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Research Questions/areas |
FRAB Interest
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| Economic Viability |
Industry Characteristics & Community reliance and resilience to impacts of management decisions
|
1
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Call for baseline data to understand the nature of industry (social, demographic, economic; and attitudinal) and facilitate Social Impact Assessments.
Community reliance and resilience to be addressed through:
- Toolkit of indicators;
- How to understand indicators;
- Ongoing monitoring;
- Integration with economic and ecological in making fisheries management decisions - e.g. net benefit.
|
NT FRAB
|
Community Perceptions and Attitudes
|
Resource Sharing: Recreational versus commercial; NGO impacts; Interest group (tourism, divers, etc) impacts
|
1
|
Social Impact assessments based on data from Investigating industry characteristics.
|
NT FRAB
|
Resource Access: Community Perceptions & Attitudes
|
Resource Access: MPAs; closed areas; oil and gas; ports; labour availability; planning regulations |
1
|
Social Impact assessments based on data from Investigating industry characteristics.
Understanding and predicting behavioural responses to management approaches (Refer also to FRDC Project 2008/335 – Fisher engagement with Industry Bodies.)
Investigating mitigation measures in response to Management measures
|
NT FRAB
|
Economic Viability
|
Management Arrangements - (Co)management styles; options; ownership (commercial, recreational and indigenous), inclusion of social inputs; compliance and illegal take |
1
|
Investigating mitigation measures in response to Management measures
Understanding and predicting behavioural responses to management approaches |
NT FRAB
|
| Economic Viability |
Well being and profitability - operating costs, price, fuel, labour shortages, succession planning, efficiency, reduction of regulatory impacts |
2
|
Identifying and understanding factors that drive responsiveness or adoption of new practices and innovation and how can these be influenced. |
NT FRAB
|
| Community Perceptions & Attitudes |
Industry / Seafood Acceptability - community attitudes to sustainability, media education and engagement, management acceptability, consumer education and product promotion. |
2
|
Social barriers to;
- R&D comprehension and uptake;
- R&D transfer;
- Leadership;
- Positive industry representation.
Building social capital between industry and communities.
Community perceptions and attitudes to industry and sharing resource and facilitating access. |
NT FRAB |
| Human Capital |
Industry capacity - toolkit comprehension, R&D transfer, Industry representation, ownership of research outcomes and management decisions. (To be addressed in collaboration with the People Development program) |
2
|
Identifying and understanding factors that drive responsiveness to, or adoption of, new practices and innovation and how can these be influenced.
Social barriers to;
- R&D comprehension and uptake;
- R&D transfer;
- Leadership;
- Positive industry representation.
|
NT FRAB
NSW FRAB |
| Environmental & Community Perceptions & Attitudes |
Ecosystem impacts - bycatch reporting; stewardship; impacts of tradeoffs |
2 |
Identifying and understanding factors that drive responsiveness to, or adoption of, new practices and innovation and how can these be influenced. |
NT FRAB |
| Environmental |
Agricultural effects (fertiliser run off etc); coastal development; water and land quality and availability |
3
|
Investigating mitigation measures in response to Management measures. |
NT FRAB |
| Economic Viability |
Market Access - certification, food safety, value adding; food Security |
4
|
Changing attitudes to seafood consumption and increasing seafood consumption |
NT FRAB
NSW FRAB |
| Environmental |
Climate Change (to be addressed through collaboration with other programs and agency research - e.g. CCRSPI |
|
Identifying and understanding factors that drive responsiveness to, or adoption of, new practices and innovation and how can these be influenced. |
NT FRAB |
| Human Capital |
Preservation of skills and recruitment for industry (to be addressed in collaboration with People Development committee) |
|
Social barriers to;
- R&D comprehension and uptake;
- R&D transfer;
- Leadership;
- Positive industry representation.
|
NT FRAB
NSW FRAB |
| Demographic |
Cultural - Indigenous/gender issues - awaiting input from Indigenous Sector/FRABS |
|
Indigenous
Cultural
- Prevention of maintenance of cultural practices, including fishing.
- The loss of traditional fishing knowledge
- Prevention of Intergenerational transmission of indigenous cultural
Social
- Declining opportunities for shared community activities associated with fishing
- Ineffective engagement on indigenous fishers in management decision making processes
- lack of established protocols for seeking participation with indigenous fishers
Economic
- Access to a proportion of target species based on prior use of those species for consumption and trade.
- Loss of indigenous commercial fishermen as a result of management approaches (input to output)
- Impact on health as a result of impeded access to tradtional seafood diets
Capacity
- lack of capacity to engage effectively in the use and management of fish stocks
|
NT FRAB
NSW FRAB |
