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There has been much written on the theoretical merits and practical implementation of ITQs from a regulators/managers perspective(eg. Kaufman et al. 1999), but virtually nothing has been published specifically directed at fishers to help them understand what the implementation of ITQs means to their fishery and importantly, how their businesses can operate under ITQs and adjust to remain healthy and profitable.

The few "guides" that are available, such as as "The Fishermen’s Guide to the Quota Management System" (Boyle 1993) explain the technical compliance and management requirements for New Zealand fisheries and others such as Fisheries Management Paper No 138 (Donohue and Barker, 2000) review information and potential pros and cons of quota management. None, however are targetted at, and written for small and medium sized fishery businesses and nor do they explain how these business can adapt and thrive under ITQ management.

It is well known that fishers can take a significant amount of time to accept the move to ITQs and then even longer to operate efficiently and effectively within this management environment. The WA rock lobster fishery and the Commonwealth's northern prawn fishery are two of Australia's most valuable fisheries, both of which are currently in the throes of moving to ITQ management. A number of fisheries in the Northern Territory are also moving to ITQs. In many cases, industry members are resistant to this change and are very concerned about how their businesses need to change under such a management regime.

What is needed is an easy to use comprehensive guide to understanding ITQ management which includes information and guidance on how to best adjust and adapt their businesses to operate efficiently and profitably. This project offers to produce such a guide.

Objectives

1. Interview a range of fishers from fisheries that are moving to ITQ management, to understand their areas of concern and what information they would require to better adapt their businesses to operate efficiently and profitably under ITQ management

2. Produce a comprehensive but easy-to-read guide targeted particularly for use by fishers on "Understanding and adapting fishing businesses to ITQ management".

3. Examine and document the unintended consequences of ITQ implementation.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9872184-2-1

Author: Sevaly Sen

Final Report • 2011-06-01 • 4.34 MB

2010-229-DLD.pdf

Project products

Guide • 2012-06-30 • 4.19 MB

2010-229-Hunter-to-Harvester-Guide.pdf

Summary

The purpose of this handbook is to help you, as an operator in a fishery going to or recently moved to quota, to navigate your way through the business decisions regarding Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs), and to help you adjust your business to the new system.

This guide does not discuss the pros and cons of ITQs or the different quota allocation methods, as it is assumed that these discussions will have already taken place. If you are interested in these issues, there are many publications on the subject – a list of some is attached at the end of this guide.

SRL IPA: Southern Rocklobster National RD&E planning and management

Project number: 2010-402

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $796,334.91

Principal Investigator: Ross J. Hodge

Organisation: Southern Rocklobster Ltd (SRL)

Project start/end date: 5 Sep 2011 - 29 Jun 2015

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

SPECIES

Southern Rock Lobster

Need

The industry structure comprises around 700 small owner operator businesses across three states with little or no capacity to coordinate investment in and manage industry RD&E. In 2008/09 the Gross Value of Production (GVP) for the Southern Rocklobster Fishery exceeded $200 million for the first time. A coordinated strategic approach to RD&E for the ASR is vital to continue maximizing profitability across the value chain within the sustainability limits of the resource and to facilitate market diversification.
Two distinct needs are involved in any consideration of better national RD&E co-ordination for the southern rock lobster sector:
1. The strategic issues of RD&E prioritization, funding and the linkages to (and support for) both industry development plans and Government objectives of industry development.; and
2. The operational issues of facilitating effective communication and coordination at all levels industry/researchers, among researchers, among industry, FRDC/researchers etc).
The new Partnership Agreement has been established to deal with these needs and under the Partnership Agreement resources are required for SRL to meet its obligations in the following areas:
1. Establishing and managing an RD&E committee
2. Engaging independent experts to both Chair and provide expert guidance to the process
3. Develop strategic and operational plans and projects to deliver these plans
4. Monitor and report progress and
5. Ensure effective governance, transparency, financial control and accountability.
Continuing to build industry value is contingent upon coordinated investment in industry development at the whole of industry level. SRL is now well established and has a track record of success in implementing the industry strategic plan and leading integration of RD&E work across stakeholders, States, Australia and New Zealand.
This project establishes the capacity to deal with Southern Rocklobster sector RD&E needs in a strategic and efficient way.

Objectives

1. Deliver resources and processes that consolidate and coordinate Southern Rocklobster RD&E planning and funding so that overall RD&E outcomes are delivered in an efficient and cost-effective way.

2. Develop a corporate structure, resources and processes for SRL Ltd that ensures (a)a strategic focus of focus on maximizing profitability across the value chain within the limits of sustainability of the resource (b) a high level governance at the operational, planning and strategic level and (c) effective engagement of all stakeholders in identifying and achieving strategic goals.

Final report

ISBN: 987-0-9803977-4-1

Author: Ross R. Hodge

Final Report • 2017-08-16 • 8.71 MB

2010-402-DLD.pdf

A scenario analysis of the social impact of the Western Rock Lobster industry management options on fleet hosting communities

Project number: 2004-247

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $427,287.00

Principal Investigator: Matthew Tonts

Organisation: University of Western Australia (UWA)

Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2004 - 31 Oct 2007

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

SPECIES

Need

THE WESTERN ROCK LOBSTER FISHERY IS CURRENTLY MANAGED BY INPUT CONTROLS. THE CURRENT MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT IS UNDER REVIEW AND CONSIDERATION IS BEING GIVEN TO A MOVE TOWARDS OUTPUT CONTROLS IN 2006. THERE IS RECOGNITION BY WA FISHERIES AND INDUSTRY OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSION AND THE NEED TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS. THIS STUDY WILL ASSESS THE SOCIAL COMPONENT OF THE FISHERY WHICH WILL INFORM MANAGERS AND INDUSTRY ON THE LIKELY SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGES TO THE EXISTING MANAGEMENT RULES, IN PARTICULAR THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGE FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT CONTROLS. INDUSTRY HAS INDICATED THAT ANY DECISION ON THE FUTURE MANAGEMENT OF THE WESTERN ROCK LOBSTER FISHERY WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL DIMENSION. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH MOST studies THAT highlight the importance of the social dimension and conclude that more extensive investigation IN THIS AREA is required.

The lack of a well developed model for assessing the social consequences of the industry on hosting communities is a substantial and significant gap in knowledge. Failure to address this gap means that future decision regarding the industry will be flawed. Reliable and valid sustainability assessments must be based on a genuine integration of the environmental, economic and social elements of the triple bottom line. This is consistent with the industry commitment to ESD, and addresses key elements of the FRDC research priorities. The 2000-2005 FRDC R & D Plan states, “it is important to understand social impacts of implementing fisheries management regimes…ESD will be pursued most effectively when the industry is economically strong and when social benefits are clear”. AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS THAT FLOW TO THE INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY FROM ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE USE OF THE WESTERN ROCK LOBSTER RESOURCE WILL ADDRESS THIS IMPERATIVE.

THE OUTCOMES OF THE RESEARCH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ENSURING THAT THE FISHERY REMAINS WELL MANAGED AND COMMITED TO PRINCIPLES OF ESD. THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF THIS PROJECT TO A WIDE RANGE OF DECISION AND PLANNING PROCESSES RECOGNISES THE SIGNIFICANT GAPS IN UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS AND IMPACTS OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN GENERAL AND THE ROCK LOBSTER FISHERY IN PARTICULAR. AS SUCH, THE STUDY WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A RANGE OF IMPORTANT DECISIONS THAT WILL GUIDE THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA INCLUDING:

A) THE INDUSTRY PROJECT: "DETERMINING THE BEST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE WESTERN ROCK LOBSTER INDUSTRY". THIS INTEGRATED 3 YEAR PROJECT WILL ASSESS THE SOCIAL, ECONONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THREE DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS ON THE WESTERN ROCK LOBSTER FISHERY AND THEIR HOSTING COMMUITIES. THE MAIN DRIVER FOR THE PROJECT IS NATIONAL COMPETITION POLICY. THIS RESEARCH WILL ENABLE DECISION MAKERS TO ADDRESS THE NCP'S ‘NET COMMUNITY BENEFIT’ TEST WITH A FULL APPRECIATION OF THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF CHANGES ON FLEET HOSTING COMMUNITIES. THIS DATA IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.

B) MARINE PARK PLANNING: A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF REALLOCATING FISHERIES RESOURCES FROM EXTRACTIVE USERS SUCH AS COMMERCIAL AND RECREATIONAL FISHERIES TO NON EXTRACTIVE USERS SUCH AS DIVE CHARTERS REQUIRE INFORMATION ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL ENABLE THE MARINE PARK PLANNING PROCESS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE SOCIAL COSTS OF CHANGES THAT WILL RESULT FROM MARINE PARK PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A SERIES OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS ON COASTAL COMMUNITIES.

C) INTEGRATED FISHERIES MANAGEMENT: THE OUTCOMES OF THIS PROJECT WILL ASSIST DECISION MAKERS ENGAGED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED FISHERIES MANAGEMENT PLAN. THIS PLAN WILL HAVE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND A FULL APPRECIATION OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS IS CRUCIAL TO INFORMED, INTEGRATED PLANNING. THE BASIS OF INTEGRATED FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IS EXPLICIT ALLOCATION OF THE FISHERIES RESOURCES BETWEEN EXTRACTIVE USERS, FOR EXAMPLE, AN EXPLICIT ALLOCATION OF WESTERN ROCK LOBSTER BETWEEN THE RECREATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SECTOR. THIS RESEARCH WILL ASSIST IN UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL COSTS OR BENEFITS OF REALLOCATION OF THE RESOURCE FROM COMMERCIAL TO RECREATIONAL USERS.

Objectives

1. To assist in the formulation of authoritative advice based on a thorough understanding of ESD principles (particularly social) to the relevant minister in response to national competition policy (NCP).

2. To establish a database of quantitative and qualitative social indicators for the communities hosting the western rock lobster fleet that will enable an integrated socio-economic assessment of a range of industry management options.

3. To contribute to the development of a framework and predictive sustainability assessment model integrating social data with environmental and economic data for use in predicting the wider effects of management changes on host communities.

Final report

Author: Mathew Tonts

Final Report • 2008-09-04 • 17.19 MB

2004-247-DLD.pdf

PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-038

PROJECT STATUS:

COMPLETED

Long-term recovery of trawled marine communities 25 years after the world’s largest adaptive management experiment

This project investigated the extent to which trawled communities of Australia’s North-West Shelf have recovered from high levels of trawling before the exclusion of foreign fleets in 1990 and after the imposition of tight controls on trawl and trap fishing in the early 1990s. The results...

ORGANISATION:

CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart

TAGS

Threatened Endangered Protected Species

SPECIES

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption

Project number: 2001-093

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $284,064.00

Principal Investigator: Mark S. Crane

Organisation: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)

Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2001 - 15 Aug 2004

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

Resource Access And Allocation

Need

Overseas experience demonstrates how diseases reduce profitability, sustainability and competitiveness of aquatic animal industries (for references see ATTACHMENT 6). Despite a rapid and continuous expansion in aquaculture, Australia has not experienced significant disease emergencies in farmed aquatic animal populations. However, pilchard mortality events in 1995 and 1998 have provided warning signals and demonstrated the need to increase our capability to respond to – and preferably prevent – aquatic animal disease outbreaks.

Since 1992, the FRDC as the biggest research investor has contributed more than $11million to over fifty projects related to aquatic animal health. Due to project diversity and cross-linkages to several FRDC Programs and existing Subprograms, well-facilitated project management is a fundamental requirement to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in delivering and extending results and would be facilitated by a dedicated Subprogram with its leader and supporting infrastructure.

With the development of a strategic R&D plan for aquatic animal health as a highest priority task, the Subprogram would contribute to preventing duplication of research, increase cooperation amongst researchers and thus achieve one of AQUAPLAN’s key priority objectives. It would thus underpin stability in aquatic animal health research and provide a greater level of service to research output beneficiaries.

The FRDC Subprogram would not only manage traditional R&D projects, but also develop Program Activity Plans and deliver projects under an AFFA/FRDC Agreement ([…] for the delivery of Program Activities under the Building of a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health program). FRDC will be advised by FHMC’s AQUAPLAN Business Group (ABG), chaired by ASIC and NAC, fulfilling the role of the Subprogram steering committee. Thus, the national approach can be developed in tandem to the R&D strategy, and guaranteeing links among the two. Significant components of the AQUAPLAN Workplan could be achieved.

Objectives

1. Coordinate the FRDC Subprogram Aquatic Animal Health (project applications, workshops, communication) including the Program Activities funded under the AFFA/FRDC Agreement (Agreement between Commonwealth of Australia and Fisheries Research and Development Corporation ABN 74 311 094 913 for the delivery of Program Activities under the Building of a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health program).

2. Set strategic directions for aquatic animal health R&D in Australia.

3. Facilitate the dissemination of information on, and results from, aquatic animal health R&D.

4. Develop and implement a dedicated communication strategy for aquatic animal health R&D in Australia.

Final report

ISBN: 0-9752347-2-2

Author: Mark Crane

Final Report • 2004-08-13 • 1.17 MB

2001-093-DLD.pdf

Reference point management and the role of catch-per-unit effort in prawn and scallop fisheries

Project number: 1999-120

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $359,269.61

Principal Investigator: Michael F. O'Neill

Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct

Project start/end date: 11 Jul 1999 - 9 Feb 2006

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

SPECIES

Ballot's Saucer Scallop

King Prawns

Tiger Prawns

Need

Fishery Management Plans are currently being developed for all major fisheries in Queensland. In the next few years, these plans will become the legal framework within which management practices are applied. Limit and target reference points have been developed and put forward as key assessment and management tools in all of these plans. Methods used to estimate the reference points have generally been ad hoc and based on un-standardised catch and effort data.

Clearly, there is a strong need to test these reference points.

In the Queensland Trawl Fishery Management Plan (east coast - Moreton Bay) 1998-2005, the limit reference points are based on a comparison of the average logbook catch-per-unit-effort from 1988-96 with the relevent year's catch-per-unit-effort. At present, this comparison of CPUEs takes no account of changes in effective effort.

However, effective fishing effort continually increases, even though the number of licence holders or total number of days fished each year may remain constant. This continual “effort creep” is characteristic of trawl fleets and is due to fishers adopting technological improvements in fishing practices, such as GPS and plotters. A recent study of the northern prawn fishery indicates that when GPS and plotters are used concurrently, relative fishing power increases by 7% over boats without such equipment (Robins et. al. in press).

We propose to standardise the effort of the trawl fleet, which is capital intensive and would therefore be most affected by technology advances. Two major trawl fleets operate within the Queensland region, the Torres Strait trawl and the Queensland East Coast trawl licensed fleet. In terms of value, the most important species captured by these vessels are tiger prawns, eastern king prawns and saucer scallops. AFMA and the Torres Strait Scientific Advisory Committee see a priority need that catch rate analysis of the Torres Strait tiger prawn fishery be undertaken. The prawn Working Group for Torres Strait has discussed this issue of possible changes in effective effort and the managers are of the opinion that this issue needs to be investigated. The small size of the fleet will simplify analysis compared to analysing the full Queensland tiger prawn fishery.

In summary, therefore, effective reference points must be clearly defined and relate to a management system that uses a catch-per-unit effort series adjusted for changes in fishing power.

Objectives

1. Produce an in-depth description and catalogue of the gear and technological improvements of a representative sample for the a) Torres Strait tiger prawn, b) Queensland eastern king prawn and c) south-east Queensland saucer scallop fisheries for the period 1970 to present.

2. Establish a standardised catch-per-unit effort series of the above fisheries.

3. Compare present Management Plan reference points with the standardised and unstandardised catch-per-unit effort series.

4. Investigate and establish robust reference points and response mechanisms through simulation modelling.

5. Disseminate results to TrawlMAC, the QFMA trawl fishery manager and fishers.

Final report

Author: Michael O'Neill

Final Report • 2005-09-02 • 8.63 MB

1999-120-DLD.pdf

Building economic capability to improve the management of marine resources in Australia

Project number: 2008-306

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $861,997.02

Principal Investigator: Sarah M. Jennings

Organisation: University of Tasmania (UTAS)

Project start/end date: 30 Sep 2008 - 29 Jun 2013

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

Need

The need for increasing fisheries economic research nationally was recently highlighted at the AFMF - SSR annual workshop, a workshop held by AFMA to discuss fisheries economic research needs (AFMA, 2007), and in the FRDC Research and Development Plan (2005-10). Building capacity in fisheries economics within industry (e.g. RAGs, MACs) and government was also considered necessary to facilitate uptake of management tools that would enhance economic performance of the industry (AFMA, 2007).

Research needs vary at the State and Commonwealth level. For example, priority economic research projects in South Australia have been identified as the contribution of recreational fishing to regional communities; and a comparative study of the effects of quota management regimes on productivity and sustainability. In Tasmania, specific identified research needs include the development of performance indicators, resource allocation, economic efficiency of alternative management strategies, and market and industry analysis. In Queensland, the impact of marine conservation on both recreational and commercial fishing is a significant issue in the South East, as is resource allocation between recreational and commercial fishers in the East Coast inshore fin-fish fishery. Improved efficiency in the prawn farming industry is also a recent priority given the increased exchange rate and growth in prawn imports. At the Commonwealth level, economic performance measurement and management strategy evaluations that incorporate economic considerations and the impact of marine reserves on the fishing industry are priority research areas (AFMA, 2007).

Research projects undertaken by the PhD students enroled under this project will target these identified priority needs. Hence, both capacity building and research needs will be jointly satisfied.

AFMA (2007). Economics in Commonwealth fisheries management - Workshop final report, 2 March 2007, Canberra. R2006/1127l 7/3/2007

Objectives

1. To build Australia's capability in fisheries resource economics through graduate training

2. To address identified high priority applied fisheries economics research needs of both State and Commonwealth marine resource sectors through PhD research projects

3. To develop and deliver a range of fisheries resource economic training opportunities for marine scientists, industry and managers through a short course program

4. To develop an ongoing national focus in the area of applied fisheries resource economics that can address the long term research and training needs of both State and Commonwealth marine resource sectors

Final report

Author: Sarah Jennings

Final Report • 2017-09-29 • 660.41 KB

2008-306-DLD.pdf

Summary

This project includes the following appendices and videos:

2008-306 Appendix C Individual FRDC Student Reports.pdf

2008-306 Appendix D Student publications.pdf

2008-306 Appendix E Student Project Videos.pdf

Anna Farmery talks about her research - [video]

Peggy Schrobback talks about her research - [video]

Rafael León talks about his research - [video]

Samantha Paredes talks about her research - [video]

Tim Emery talks about his research - [video]

Sarah Jennings talks about her research - [video]

ESD Reporting and Assessment Subprogram: strategic planning, project management and adoption

Project number: 2004-006

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $215,477.00

Principal Investigator: Rick Fletcher

Organisation: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA

Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2004 - 30 Sep 2007

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

Need

Effective coordination of the activities needed to progress the implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) within the fisheries and aquaculture sectors is essential. The concepts of ESD cover a variety of different disciplines including environmental, social, economic, legal and administrative. Furthermore, the stakeholders involved include the research agencies, fisheries management agencies, environmental agencies, the commercial, recreational and aquaculture industries along with the non-government organizations plus indigenous interests. Therefore, the standard jurisdictional, discipline or stakeholder consultative structures are not appropriate to meet this task.

A “Subprogram structure”, which has a reference group that acts both as a coordinating group and as method of increasing communication amongst the different parties, has proven an effective method of administering these activities for the past two years. The duration of the current ESD Reporting and Assessment (ESDRA) subprogram project will finish in June 2004. At this time, however, a number of ESD based initiatives will still be underway. Moreover, a number of new initiatives have only just been endorsed by the ESD reference group and the Ministerial Council for Natural Resource Management (NRMSC) and are likely to be funded in the coming round of applications. Therefore, to assist in the effective management and coordination of these activities (and any future developments) an extension of the subprogram for a further three year period will be required.

Objectives

1. Facilitate the discussion and coordination of ESD related issues amongst the various stakeholder groups

2. Coordinate and facilitate the development and evaluation of ESD related project applications submitted to FRDC

3. Coordinate the preparation and delivery of the ESD subprogram communications strategy

4. Facilitate travel of ESD Reference group members to the annual workshop and meetings

Final report

ISBN: 1 921258 54 3

Author: Rick Fletcher

Final Report • 2017-09-29

2004-006-DLD.pdf

Summary

The second stage of the operation of the ESD Subprogram was successful, but compared to the focus during the first subprogram period, mostly in a consolidation manner rather than from the generation of significant new tools. This was necessary because it takes time to adopt and integrate significant changes to the methods of operation of agencies and industries. The policies must be there before any real activity can occur and we found that for the broader focused, cross fishery/cross sector applications of the framework, agencies were not in a position for much of the time to apply this.

There was also the need to get a level of harmonization of policy and processes amongst agencies - especially between fishery and environment agencies before these broader frameworks can be applied in an effective manner. Such discussions are now occurring in some jurisdictions and these regional types of frameworks are therefore becoming more relevant to their operations and it is likely that they will be used with increasing frequency over the coming few years.

The projects and processes undertaken through the ESD subprogram (and related activities) have overall, been successful. It has provided the basis to demonstrate whether management has credibility with the issues of resource sustainability, functional ecosystem relationships and habitat processes such as is needed to meet the requirements of the Commonwealth's EPBC assessment. Most jurisdictions are now using the tools and frameworks developed by the subprogram or related projects.

Keywords: Ecologically Sustainable Development, Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management, Ecosystem Approaches; Risk Assessment, fisheries management, reporting frameworks, social and economic assessments.

Seafood CRC: Oyster consortium - communication, extension and management of R&D results

Project number: 2007-715

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $120,647.10

Principal Investigator: Rachel King

Organisation: Oysters Australia Ltd

Project start/end date: 29 Sep 2007 - 30 Oct 2010

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

SPECIES

Need

Value for money

The industry comprises around 970 small owner operator businesses throughout Australia. Each state has an industry council to coordinate a strategic approach to its R&D priorities. The Seafood CRC has provided a unique opportunity for the oyster industry by providing an opportunity for future growth but it is contingent upon coordinated investment in industry development at the whole of industry level.

The oyster consortium is a collegial group of Industry bodies and private companies and represents the cutting edge or Research and development in the oyster industry. By forming the consortium the oyster industry has become a core participant in the Seafood CRC and will deliver a strategic approach to R&D to maximize returns.

This proposal will provide the resources to ensure that the outcomes of the research and development undertaken through the CRC are adopted and commercialised quickly and extensively throughout the Australian Oyster industry. Without this coordination it will be very difficult to achieve the change at the extent and rate necessary to achieve the growth targets for the industry.

Level of Impact

The Oyster Consortium will be pivotal in achieving the CRC objective with respect to the Oyster industry and will be responsible for meeting two distinct needs involved in their national R&D strategy;
1. The strategic issues of R&D prioritization, funding and the linkages to (and support for) both industry development plans and Government objectives of industry development.

2. The operational issues of facilitating effective communication and coordination at all levels (industry/researchers, among researchers, among industry, FRDC/researchers etc).

Objectives

1. Manage a national strategic approach to oyster research and development.

2. Manage project developemt on a state by state basis

3. Manage and implement a communications plan to keep end-users, researchers and funding agencies informed and ensure research results are rapidly and widely adopted.

4. To estabilish and maintain collaboration within projects for the oyster industry

5. Represent the Oyster consortium at Seafood CRC core participant meeting.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9871613-0-7

Author: Rachel King

Final Report • 2011-06-01 • 1,004.78 KB

2007-715-DLD.pdf

Summary

CRC project 2007/715: “Seafood CRC - Oyster consortium - communication, extension and management of R&D results” was needed to ensure return on investment in oyster R & D, was seen as essential for industry change and to achieve the growth targets for the industry.

The Oyster Consortium formed in 2007 to become a core CRC participant but consisted of state based industry councils and commercial entities. The state based councils represent 970 small owner operator businesses throughout Australia. Strategy, co-ordination and facilitating effective communication were identified as crucial to ensuring that CRC research outcomes were adopted and commercialised quickly and extensively throughout the Australian Oyster industry.

Seafood CRC: optimising business structures and fisheries management systems for key fisheries

Project number: 2009-715

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $154,070.00

Principal Investigator: Timothy M. Ward

Organisation: SARDI Food Safety and Innovation

Project start/end date: 30 Apr 2011 - 29 Apr 2013

Contact:

FRDC

TAGS

Resource Assessment

Profitability

Individual Transferable Quota

Harvest Strategy

Fisheries Management

Need

The main causes of these major DECLINES IN FISHERY PERFORMANCE are substantial decreases in real prices (prawns, abalone), large increases in costs (all sectors) and, in a few cases, significant reductions in stock size and productivity (rock lobster).

In many fisheries major improvements in economic performance will only be achieved through MAJOR AND INTEGRATED CHANGES in operational procedures, business structures and resource management systems.

Inertia and active to resistance to change, within both government and industry, currently impede the implementation of the CULTURAL SHIFT that is required to revive the CRC’s ecologically-sustainable, but FINANCIALLY-CHALLENGED fisheries.

Major, integrated changes and cultural shifts require a clearly articulated VISION FOR THE FUTURE.

Convincing vision statements require EVIDENCE.

This project will provide the information that is needed for industry and government to develop the joint VISION STATEMENTS that are required to chart a clear pathway to a more profitable future for each selected CRC fishery.

Critical INFORMATION NEEDED TO UNDERPIN EACH VISION STATEMENT that this project will provide includes:

1. Objective assessments of the key FACTORS LIMITING FISHERY PERFORMANCE;

2. Comprehensive evaluations of the OPTIONS FOR INCREASING PROFITABILITY;

3. Clear advice about the COMPLEX AND INTER-RELATED CHANGES TO operational procedures, business structures and resource management systems that are required ACHIEVE MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS IN FISHERY PERFORMANCE;

4. A clear PATHWAY TO ADOPTION that recognises the inertia and resistance to change within government and industry that must be overcome for these MAJOR AND INTEGRATED CHANGES to be implemented.

Objectives

1. Assess the performance and identify impediments to wealth creation in selected CRC fisheries

2. Describe and evaluate innovative systems that have been established to improve the performance of successful fisheries worldwide.

3. Identify practical opportunities for overcoming impediments to wealth creation and improving the performance of selected CRC fisheries.

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-921563-72-0

Author: T.M. Ward

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