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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-062
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Coordination of the National Priority 1 Subprogram: to ensure that Australian fishing and aquaculture products are sustainable and acknowledged to be so

The FRDC's RD&E Plan 2015-20 focused on maximising impacts by concentrating on knowledge development around three national priorities including National Priority 1(NP1): to ensure that Australian fishing and aquaculture products are sustainable and acknowledged to be so. In...
ORGANISATION:
Oceanomics Pty Ltd
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
Fisheries Management
Community
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-060
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Healthcheck Phase 2

Sustainability is a broad and complex concept, and consideration of the diverse suite of factors involved in social, economic, ecological and governance arrangements is needed to create truly sustainable food production industries. Australian fisheries encompasses a much broader range of issues than...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Training
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Stakeholder
Productivity
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-059
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Guidance on Adaptation of Commonwealth Fisheries management to climate change

This project is comprised of four key components: (i) FRDC Final Report (Appendices 3-5 are provided as standalone documents); (ii) Adaptation Handbook (designed to help fisheries managers, operators – and anyone else helping to support fisheries – step through a risk assessment and...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
TAGS
Rac Cmwth
Fisheries Management
Ecosystem
Climate Change
Climate Adaptation
Environment
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-056
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

What could Australia’s total sustainable wild fisheries production be?

This project was a first attempt at estimating the total potential maximum sustainable yield (MSY) from Australia’s commercial fisheries. The project considered only key commercial species and selected by-product species. Estimating equilibrium MSY where there was a formal stock...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
Stock Assessment
Oceanography
Marketing
Fisheries Management
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-055
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Field trials to experimentally test if alternative sea lion excluder devices (SLEDs) adequately prevent Australian sea lions from entering rock lobster pots

This project tested the efficacy of two new sea lion excluder devices (SLEDs) in preventing entry of seals into southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) pots designed by fishers from the South Australian Northern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery (NZRLF). Since 1 November 2013, the use of a spike SLED has...
ORGANISATION:
SARDI Food Safety and Innovation
TAGS
Physiology
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear
Bycatch
SPECIES
Southern Rock Lobster
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-053
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Mareframe - Co-creating Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Solutions (EU led project)

Between 2014 and 2018, a large European Union project – MareFrame (http://www.mareframe-fp7.org/) – was run with the intent of identifying and reducing impediments to the implementation of ecosystem approach to fisheries management. Australian researchers engaged with this effort, both...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Stakeholder
Modelling
Fisheries Management
Education
Ecosystem
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-052
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Developing and road testing a novel and robust method for trading off ecological interventions for the recovery of native fish communities

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan water recovery objectives through the Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) show outstanding potential to be accelerated through complementary measures. A complementary measures program encompasses a range of non-flow related investments to achieve ecological...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
TAGS
Threatened Endangered Protected Species
Restocking
Resource Assessment
Population Dynamics
Modelling
SPECIES
European Carp
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