This application was developed in response to the need of the Sydney Fish Market (SFM) to better understand its onsite clientele. Specifically, SFM seeks to understand the profile of vistors to the market, what they do there, what they buy and what economic value they represent to the site and to...
The South Australian Sardine Fishery (SASF) is a single species (Sardinops sagax) fishery worth approximately $20 million (Econsearch, 2013). Over recent years the size and age sardines caught in southern Spencer Gulf have fluctuated significantly (Ward et al. 2012). Evidence from stock assessment...
The aim of Seafood CRC Project 2010-714 ‘The Future Harvest Master Class’ was to develop and deliver a one-day Master Class in Fisheries Economics (hereafter referred to as the Master Class). In offering the Master Class, objectives of the Future Harvest business theme were supported through...
There is recognition among fisheries management agencies that economic reporting from most jurisdictions has been at best inconsistent and at worst, non-existent. There is increasing interest in developing basic frameworks for the collection and reporting of fisheries economic data.
The FH projects have been particularly valuable in demonstrating the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing bioeconomic approaches to fisheries management. Much of the discussion of these issues has been confined to technical reports and other project-linked documentation with...
The economic performance gap (lost profit) in Australian fisheries has been estimated at 36-46% or $350-450 million per annum. The future harvest theme attempts to recover this loss and assumes that half of this gap in economic performance (i.e. $200 million p.a.) occurs in CRC fisheries (i.e. is...