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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-204
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implications of current spatial management measures on AFMA ERAs for habitats

In this project, CSIRO researchers implemented the first Australia-wide spatial approach to quantifying the exposure of mapped seabed assemblages to the footprints of Commonwealth demersal trawl fisheries, as well as their spatial protection in areas closed to trawling. These outputs are assisting...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Survey
Rac Cmwth
Fishing Effort
Fisheries Management
Environmental Impact
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-168
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sustainability indicators/ESD review

Ecologically sustainable development (ESD) has been accepted as the foundation for the management of natural resources in Australia since 1992, when the National Strategy for ESD was released. ESD was specifically identified as an objective of fisheries management in the 1991 Commonwealth Fisheries...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Sustainability
Policy
Fisheries Management
Communications
Industry
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2015-501
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Empowering recreational fishers as champions of healthy fish habitat

From 2016 to 2018, recreational fishers across Australia focussed their attention on fish habitat as part of the project, Empowering recreational fishers as champions of healthy fish habitat. Fish habitat throughout Australia is in trouble. Progressive degradation of fish habitat has occurred since...
ORGANISATION:
OzFish Unlimited
TAGS
Recreational Fishing
Habitat
Fisheries Management
Community
Behaviour
Blank
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-122
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Review of fishery resource access and allocation arrangements across Australian jurisdictions

In 2010, the Australian Fisheries Managers Forum listed access and allocation as one of the top priority policy issues to be addressed in Australian fisheries. Subsequently, the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) formed a working group to examine possible approaches to access...
ORGANISATION:
Fishwell Consulting Pty Ltd
TAGS
Values & Ethics
Sustainability
Stakeholder
Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2004-024
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Variation in banana prawn catches at Weipa: a comprehensive regional study

Since about the year 2000 there have been very low catches in the Weipa Region of the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF); these low catches were different to other areas of the NPF where they continued to fluctuate around long-term means and continued to fall within predicted levels. Industry and managers...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
TAGS
Workforce
Wild Catch
Survey
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
SPECIES
Banana Prawns
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2022-096
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

NPF Tiger Prawn Fishery Adaptation Strategy workshop

The Northern Prawn Fishery operates over a considerable expanse off Australia's northern coast. The fishery has been managed with a combination of voluntary buybacks, internal industry restructuring, and compulsory acquisition programs, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of...
ORGANISATION:
NPF Industry Pty Ltd
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Rac Cmwth
Fisheries Management
Adaptation
SPECIES
Tiger Prawns
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-195
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Industry capability and mapping report and workshop

In 2018 the Australia Seafood Industry established a national peak industry body – Seafood Industry Australia (SIA). SIA’s charter is to manage issues of national significance to the seafood industry. The current functional capability (staff, funding, systems, networks) of the SIA...
ORGANISATION:
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
TAGS
Fisheries Management
Capacity Building
Environment
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