Attendance And Participation At The Governing Changing Oceans Workshop And PICES-5th International Symposium On The Effects Of Climate Change On The World’s Ocean - Bergen Norway
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$15,000.00
Summary
Workshop: The workshop is being hosted Tiffany Morrison, Pip Cohen, Gretta Pecl and Emily Ogier. Their approach is to bring together a small group of exceptional multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners with expertise in governance, fisheries, climate science, blue carbon, blue finance, blue conservation, Indigenous governance, co-management, and community resilience. It is our aim that discussions will be focused towards producing a jointly authored paper targeted at Nature or Science, ....Workshop: The workshop is being hosted Tiffany Morrison, Pip Cohen, Gretta Pecl and Emily Ogier. Their approach is to bring together a small group of exceptional multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners with expertise in governance, fisheries, climate science, blue carbon, blue finance, blue conservation, Indigenous governance, co-management, and community resilience. It is our aim that discussions will be focused towards producing a jointly authored paper targeted at Nature or Science, complemented by a marine intervention governance protocol and self-assessment tool.
Similarly the ECCWO5 symposium will bring together experts from around the world to better understand climate impacts on ocean ecosystems, the ecosystem services they provide, and the people, businesses and communities that depend on them. The 2023 event will highlight the latest information on how oceans are changing, what is at risk, responses that are underway, and strategies for increasing climate resilience, mitigation and adaptation. It aims to identify key knowledge gaps, promote collaborations, and stimulate the next generation of science and actions.Read moreRead less
The need for this project is to activate and engage industry in viable options towards climate resilience by 2030. This includes the need to demonstrate that immediate options exist and are viable and meaningful, while also gaining support for a clear plan to transform the industry and supply chain with support both internally and beyond the sector. The key needs are:
01 | Industry awareness of the problems and solutions around climate change and resilience is below where it needs to be ....The need for this project is to activate and engage industry in viable options towards climate resilience by 2030. This includes the need to demonstrate that immediate options exist and are viable and meaningful, while also gaining support for a clear plan to transform the industry and supply chain with support both internally and beyond the sector. The key needs are:
01 | Industry awareness of the problems and solutions around climate change and resilience is below where it needs to be to activate broad transformation. There is little action towards climate resilience (1 player) in comparison to other agricultural sectors.
02 | There will be increasing competition within the protein market to validate and promote sustainable practices and positive contributions to the environment/climate.
03 | Leaders and innovators in the industry are attempting to act in isolation with few resources to support industry and supply chain coordination and acceleration.
04 | Change around the edges that can be achieved by some stakeholders operating alone will not deliver the transformation at a scale or pace that is required to meet growing and broadly felt consumer expectations that indicate demonstrable action on climate change.
05 | There is a surplus of tools, resources and research around climate change and resilience, but to this point, little of that work has been translated into forms fishers find usable and valuable.
06 | There is a need to identify early adopters and innovators in the space to lead new ways operating into the future.
07 | There is an FRDC funded project to undertake a Lifecycle Assessment being concluded early November. This work has been preliminarily identified fuel, transport, and refrigeration as key challenges requiring new solutions/opportunities for industry.
08 | Propulsion and fuel have been identified as key challenges in wild catch fisheries achieving climate resilience and reducing carbon emissions, and will be the focus of this project. Objectives: 1. To understand challenges facing the commercial wild-harvest sector relating to a changing climate 2. To determine opportunities to respond to those challenges, and validate solutions 3. To engage with industry leaders and innovators to explore and validate viable, feasible and scalable options towards climate resilience 4. To demonstrate rapid and practical progress towards climate resilience and elements of SIA’s Our Pledge 5. To build partnerships and relationships with global leaders to enable advancement of prioritised solutions that will enable improved climate resilience Read moreRead less
Know & Show Your Carbon Footprint - Discovery Phase
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$35,000.00
Summary
This project will be an initial discovery phase to inform scoping of overall approach.
Deliverables include: Consultation across fishing and aquaculture stakeholders at least 38 key fishing and aquaculture stakeholders. • Identification of the functional and non-functional requirements to create K&S functionality for the included sectors. • Identification of the data and modelling requirements to create K&S module/functionality for the included sectors. • Assessment ....This project will be an initial discovery phase to inform scoping of overall approach.
Deliverables include: Consultation across fishing and aquaculture stakeholders at least 38 key fishing and aquaculture stakeholders. • Identification of the functional and non-functional requirements to create K&S functionality for the included sectors. • Identification of the data and modelling requirements to create K&S module/functionality for the included sectors. • Assessment of any current solutions/calculators provided relative to the market requirement. • Evaluate current reference and benchmarking data versus what is required to support accurate, automated carbon accounting, and, ultimately inform decision-making that enables productivity whilst reducing carbon emissions. • Understand the gap between knowing your carbon footprint and being able to make informed decisions that lead to reductions in emissions. • Identification of the data and modelling requirements to create a module and/or functionality for the included sectors. • Identification of the missing calculators, features, functionality and underlying data and research required to enable all sectors to participate and benefit from the platform. • Documented solution design for creation of functionality identified during discovery for addition to the core infrastructure. • Report detailing the results of the carbon footprint calculation drivers / needs / existing knowledge, tools & data, gap analysis, and solution design. This will inform the Contributor and AIA in respect of further investment in the K&S solution.
Objectives: 1. Complete discovery phase to inform scoping of 'Know & Show', for consideration Read moreRead less
Sea Change: Co-developing Pathways To Mitigate And Adapt To A Changing Climate For Fisheries And Aquaculture In Australia
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$1,628,586.00
Summary
There is a need to increase effective engagement between fishing and aquaculture stakeholders and climate science and scientists in an ongoing strategic way, and not ‘just’ for single-project outcomes.
Improved engagement will help increase understanding of the likely implications of a changing climate in relevant contexts, and lay foundations for a shared exploration of available options for reducing risk exposure. We have worked with stakeholders and the FRDC Extension Officer Networ ....There is a need to increase effective engagement between fishing and aquaculture stakeholders and climate science and scientists in an ongoing strategic way, and not ‘just’ for single-project outcomes.
Improved engagement will help increase understanding of the likely implications of a changing climate in relevant contexts, and lay foundations for a shared exploration of available options for reducing risk exposure. We have worked with stakeholders and the FRDC Extension Officer Network to design a strategy that will engage fishing and aquaculture stakeholders on existing knowledge regarding risks and opportunities associated with a changing climate, to enable resource managers and researchers to better understand the ways in which many sectors are already adapting autonomously and to identify the barriers to further adaptation, and to co-design solutions that are relevant at local- and industry-levels to help build climate-ready communities and to stimulate economic resilience.
In many cases (but not all), extensive information regarding marine climate change - including key risks to fisheries and aquaculture producers (at a high level) - is already available, along with information on how to develop adaptation plans. However, despite this, progress and uptake within most sectors in terms of planned adaptation responses has been very slow – although many individual operators are already making ‘autonomous’ changes to their day-to-day operations in response to climate change drivers. If these changes are being made without access to best available knowledge, then it is very likely that substantial portions of these responses are maladaptive in the longer term, or may be countervailing to planned government adaptations (see Pecl et al 2019, Ambio, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-019-01186-x). This is a pattern evident within many different industries around Australia and across the rest of the world. ‘What’ needs to happen has thus been outlined in general terms in many cases, but such information is not co-developed or provided in consultation with end-users in ways that resonate or are useful to them. This project will address this need for relevance and usefulness.
The project aims to develop reflexive, ongoing, and two-way knowledge exchange between industry representatives, operators and manager, and the marine climate change impacts and adaptation research sector, so that solutions are co-designed, usable, and adoptable.
Objectives: 1. Work with seafood industry leaders to establish two-way climate conversations that can strengthen and underpin Australian fishing and aquaculture’s resilience to a changing climate. This approach will facilitate co-design of pathways to increase agility and build capacity for climate change adaptation with a select number of fisheries and aquaculture operations. This process will also create a model that can be applicable to other RDC’s. 2. Create a climate conversations platform to facilitate knowledge exchange (including identifying ‘gaps’ and shared issues), and thus capture, disseminate, and showcase:a. How fishing and aquaculture sectors are already adapting and responding to recent changesb. What has facilitated these changes made, and what the barriers are to further adaptationc. The story of fishing and aquaculture’s efforts towards achieving climate resilience - using a dynamic ‘story map’ approach, and other multi-media, communicate progress to target audiences. 3. Identify a) key factors influencing the agility of fisheries and aquaculture to adapt to climate change, and b) which factors (e.g. opportunities) are most important for adaptation capacity-building for different types of operations - building on work underway across multiple domestic and international projects and working groups. 4. Co-develop pathways, with a select number of fisheries and aquaculture operations, to increase their agility and build sector capacity for climate change adaptation and resilience. 5. Support the development of communities of practice for groups of fisheries and/or aquaculture operations that have similar opportunities and pathways – to support increased agility and capacity building for climate change adaptation (determined in objective 3). Read moreRead less
National Hatchery Network – Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance Program Leadership And Coordination
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$2,902,500.00
Summary
This project provides the resources for ASSA to lead the NHN Program to help grow the Australian seaweed industry over the next 2 years (until 31 March 2025) which is the stipulated grant duration.
The FRDC project will provide the funding for ASSA to engage key program and technical capability to manage and deliver the activities required to conduct the following key activities: - Finalise assessment of research partners and inform development of contracts between FRDC and resear ....This project provides the resources for ASSA to lead the NHN Program to help grow the Australian seaweed industry over the next 2 years (until 31 March 2025) which is the stipulated grant duration.
The FRDC project will provide the funding for ASSA to engage key program and technical capability to manage and deliver the activities required to conduct the following key activities: - Finalise assessment of research partners and inform development of contracts between FRDC and research partners - establish people and technical R&D capability relating to seaweed, especially Asparagopsis - conduct due diligence and develop agreements with intellectual property holders of existing Asparagopsis hatchery techniques - further develop hatchery and breeding techniques and technology - production of hatchery protocols and manuals - training and knowledge sharing activities - undertake necessary governance, finance, HR, communications and stakeholder engagement activities associated with the national hatchery network
Objectives: 1. Develop NHN Program Leadership and establish people and technical R&D capability relating to seaweed, especially Asparagopsis 2. Define scope of projects (including assessment of IP and negotiation on any licensing requirements). 3. Project manage the R&D work at the research hubs to produce hatchery protocols and manuals and further develop hatchery and breeding techniques and technologies. 4. Undertake training and knowledge sharing activities (extension). 5. Undertake necessary finance, HR, communications and stakeholder engagement activities associated with the national hatchery network. 6. Provide milestone reporting of technical and financial progress to FRDC against plans, identifying achievements and challenges, and budgets. Read moreRead less
Methods To Account For Climate Impacts In Fishery Models And Management: Case Study Example Of Environmental Contributors That Affect Tiger Prawn Population Dynamics
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$481,669.00
Summary
Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC. Objectives: Commercial in confidence
Alternate Energy Solutions For Aquaculture: A Seafood Industry Australia + Blue Economy CRC Collaboration
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$750,000.00
Summary
This project will provide a wholistic decarbonisation decision platform as the aquaculture industry builds its climate resilience. This will directly continue the work from existing projects (Climate Resilient Wild Catch Fisheries FRDC - Project Number: 2021-089) and offers both a ‘one stop shop’ approach for viable available options, as well as emerging solutions that are forecast.
The key activities are: 1 | Develop an aquaculture emissions operational framework 2 | Undertake ....This project will provide a wholistic decarbonisation decision platform as the aquaculture industry builds its climate resilience. This will directly continue the work from existing projects (Climate Resilient Wild Catch Fisheries FRDC - Project Number: 2021-089) and offers both a ‘one stop shop’ approach for viable available options, as well as emerging solutions that are forecast.
The key activities are: 1 | Develop an aquaculture emissions operational framework 2 | Undertake a technical readiness assessment - challenge and advantages, viability and scalability working with micro-project partners 3 | Undertake a suite of early mover pilot projects 4| Develop a Decarbonisation e-decision map 5 | Develop policy and funding reports to inform governance + policy makers + potential investors 6| Develop and deliver supporting outreach & communications assets
We are confident that our funding proposal offers a unique whole of industry pathway for decarbonisation, can leverage from BECRC technical experiences and programs and SIA membership networks, but also importantly take into account opportunities available to accelerate action around company readiness.
Early mover pilot project partners + NEW* Tassal Group Huon Salmon Yumbah Aquaculture Ocean Road *NEW This project will also accommodate an additional commercial partner looking for ocean energy focused solutions. This pilot will be subcontracted to AOEG through FRDC. Objectives: 1. To understand challenges facing the aquaculture sector relating to a changing climate, building resilience and accelerating decarbonisation 2. To determine opportunities to respond to those challenges, and validate solutions 3. To engage with industry leaders and innovators to explore and validate viable, feasible and scalable options towards climate resilience 4. To demonstrate rapid and practical progress towards climate resilience and elements of SIA’s Our Pledge 5. To build partnerships and relationships with national and global leaders to enable advancement of prioritised solutions that will enable improved climate resilience Read moreRead less
Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: Environmental Control Of Growth And Early Maturation In Salmonids
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$333,571.00
Summary
1. To accurately predict maturation rates and optimize photoperiod regimes to prevent early maturation.
Ambient environmental conditions mean that the Tasmanian salmon industry will always suffer from high maturation rates due to its high water temperatures and increased light intensity. Additional artificial lighting in Tasmania has been shown to reduce maturation by up to 30%; increase growth rates significantly; and delay maturation by 8 weeks (Porter et al., unpublished). While thes ....1. To accurately predict maturation rates and optimize photoperiod regimes to prevent early maturation.
Ambient environmental conditions mean that the Tasmanian salmon industry will always suffer from high maturation rates due to its high water temperatures and increased light intensity. Additional artificial lighting in Tasmania has been shown to reduce maturation by up to 30%; increase growth rates significantly; and delay maturation by 8 weeks (Porter et al., unpublished). While these strategies have improved seasonal production and have been estimated to be worth $8-16 million per year (TSGA report), seasonal fluctuations in environmental conditions and fish stocks still produce variability within their effectiveness. Trials to date have highlighted the need for increased light intensities both between sites and seasons depending on the results required. Therefore further work into the use of increased light intensity and plasma melatonin production is required.
2. To better understand the timing of oocyte maturation in relation to varied environmental conditions.
a) The development of oocytes within the gonads needs to be initiated well in advance of the fish spawning. At present it is unknown precisely when this occurs and what physiological parameters are required to allow maturation to proceed. The timing of this “gating” period will be determined as this is undoubtedly the most effective time with which to apply environmental manipulations to inhibit the maturation process to continue. The “gating mechanisms” i.e. size and energetic status will be investigated to more accurately determine the timing and duration of the application of artificial lights.
b) One hormonal candidate for the transduction of information between growth and reproductive processes is insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). The majority of research has investigated the interactions between the GH/IGF system and maturation during the latter stages of oocyte maturation i.e. secondary oocyte growth and development. Consequently there is a paucity of information on the impact of IGF-I on the initiation of oocyte maturation and primary oocyte growth and development. Determining the role of IGF-I at this stage would assist in our understanding of the interaction between growth and reproductive processes, and thus provide additional tools to control the timing of maturation in commercial operations. Objectives: 1. To reduce early maturation and increase growth rates using artificial photoperiod 2. To better understand the physiological and environmental mechanisms controlling sexual development in Atlantic salmon 3. To accurately determine the intensity and duration of light required to alter growth and reproductive processes in teleost fish 4. To assess the effects of seasonal variation on growth and reproduction and be able to adjust photoperiod manipulations accordingly to reduce the variability of results. 5. To develop and introduce the transfer of technology from the Tasmanian salmon industry to other sectors of South Australian aquaculture. Read moreRead less