Project number: 2020-130
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $30,000.00
Principal Investigator: Ian Knuckey
Organisation: Wildcatch Fisheries SA (WFSA)
Project start/end date: 13 Jun 2021 - 30 Jul 2021
Contact:
FRDC

Need

With the impending wind up of Wildcatch Fisheries SA, it is timely to firstly, assess the need for a new peak industry body, and secondly, as part of that assessment, acknowledge the role of existing structures for consultation and representation at the individual fishery sector. For example, there are management advisory committees for a number of fishery sectors, along with tasked working groups to deal with specific fishery management issues, such as the development and implementation of harvest strategies and reform of the Marine Scalefish Fishery.

It is important to recognise that South Australia already has sound legislation in place (Fisheries Management Act 2007 – although it may need review and updating); it also has considerable regulation in support of the Act, along with management plans for individual fisheries – most of which have recently been reviewed and updated, including the incorporation of updated harvest strategies. Finally, SA has key policies in place covering:

 Co-management
 Allocation
 Harvest Strategy Development

Objectives

1. To host a workshop to determine the support, options and viability of a seafood peak industry body in South Australia

Workshop

Author: Ian Knuckey
Workshop • 2022-07-27 • 8.27 MB
2020-130-DLD.pdf

Summary

Following the wind-up of Wildcatch Fisheries SA, a seafood industry forum was held in mid-2021 to gauge support for a new peak industry body to represent the interests of the SA Seafood Industry to Government, its agencies, other stakeholders and the community. At this forum, key fishing and seafood stakeholders gave in-principle support for the idea, but recognised there was a range of views about the need for such a body, what it would do, what membership it might comprise, how it might be structured, and what links it might have with other established industry organisations. Assisted by funding from FRDC, a Steering Committee was formed to help resolve issues and explore potential options for a new organisation (termed in this report as “Seafood SA”) to unify and support the industry into the future. 

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