There is a need for greater efficiency in government while reducing red and green tape, simplifying regulation and pursuing sustainable and profitable fisheries. In doing so, fisheries management also aims to gain and maintain the trust and confidence of fishery stakeholders and the general public by ensuring management is a transparent and participatory process. The current operating environment for fisheries and fishing businesses involves a range of practices and policies applied by a range of regulators with lack of consistency at whole of government level and among jurisdictions considerable duplication in process. There would be considerable benefits to reducing this complexity by adopting nationally agreed standards for fisheries management. While this is clearly a task for government, a strategic research project could assist by reviewing existing international standards and domestic arrangements, and by laying the groundwork for a national debate about consistent and agreed fisheries management standards that would reduce costs for industry, simplify the task for fishery regulators, while simultaneously meeting public expectations for transparent processes and good fisheries management.
Project number:
2015-203
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$410,115.00
Principal Investigator:
Alistair Hobday
Organisation:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date:
30 Jun 2015
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23 Oct 2017
Contact:
FRDC
1. Review existing and emerging standards for fisheries management
2. Benchmark current management practices – regulatory processes, policies, guidelines and standards – across all Australian fishery management jurisdictions
3. Identify options for a national set of auditable standards for fisheries management in Australia
ISBN:
978-1-4863-1277-1
Authors:
Alistair Hobday
Rich Little
Cathy Bulman
Caleb Gardner
Belinda McGrath-Steer
Emily Ogier
Nick Rayns
Sevaly Sen
Sean Sloan
Tony Smith
Linda Thomas
Final Report
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2019-05-30
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7.06 MB
2015-203-DLD Fisheries Agency Guidelines.pdf
The project was developed in consultation with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and State/Territory fisheries agencies. The idea of a publicly available set of standards or guidelines for marine fishery management agencies has been under discussion within fisheries agencies for some time and is consistent with broader directions in government policy and expectations of stakeholders and the broader community. The main output of this project is a set of guidelines provided in a Guidance Document, which are provided as a stand-alone component of this final report (Box 1). This final report provides only a high level overview of the project for reporting purposes, and we suggest most readers will get all they need from the Guidance Document.
PROJECT NUMBER
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2024-012
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Capturing fisher ecological knowledge of climate change: a Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery case study
Commercial in confidence
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Pty Ltd
PROJECT NUMBER
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2023-170
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
FRDC Fish Tank: building the research communities capability and capacity (Seafood Directions 2024/2026)
1. Build presentation capability and creative outlets of and for the FRDC's research community
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
PROJECT NUMBER
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2023-155
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
Prawn trawl sea-snake bycatch reduction device - Assessment, refinement, and extension
1. Comprehensively assess the bycatch reduction performance of the Sea-snake TED/BRD including coverage of when, where, and how sea-snake escape, and what other species are likely to benefit the most from its use.
ORGANISATION:
Sea Harvest Fishing Company Pty Ltd