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To exploit the environmental potential of Argentina's forestry sector

To protect environment against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.

The FRDC's vision is for Australia to have vibrant fishing and aquaculture sectors which adopt world class research to achieve sustainability and prosperity with the planned outcome to increase economic, social and environmental benefits for Australian fishing and aquaculture, and the wider community by investing in knowledge, innovation and marketing.

Five new Australian Marine Park management plans covering 44 Australian Marine Parks came into effect on 1 July 2018. These management plans set out how the marine parks will be managed over the next 10 years including through zoning arrangements that both protect Australia's marine environment and support Australia's sustainable commercial fishing sector. The new management plans have significantly reduced the impacts on commercial fishers but the package is designed to provide assistance to those commercial fishers directly affected by the new management arrangements.

The Package provides:
i. Fishing Business Assistance Grant – assistance to affected commercial fishers with a recent history of fishing in Australian Marine Parks as they adjust their business to the new operating environment.
ii. Marine Parks Grant – to help marine users and industries engage in marine park management. The first round of the element of the package closed on 12 March 2019. The second round will open in the second half of 2019.
iii. Vessel Monitoring System Assistance – support to encourage uptake of vessel monitoring systems. This element is being progressed through Parks Australia and fisheries management agencies.
iv. Coral Sea Fishery Licence Buy-out – direct assistance to commercial fishers holding either trawl or trap endorsements in the Commonwealth managed Coral Sea Fishery through a voluntary licence buy-back based on the closure of 99.8 per cent of the fishery to these methods.

The NSW Government's Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program (BAP) introduced linkages between shares and catch or effort, giving fishers the ability to invest in their business with more certainty than ever before, and ensuring the long-term viability and sustainability of the NSW commercial fishing industry.

The purpose of the above subsidies and Grant were to offset the impact of the various stages of the Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program (BAP) by:
• Assisting fishers to either exit the industry, purchase new shares, seek independent advice or obtain retraining, and assisting nominated fishers to establish themselves.
• Easing the burden of commercial fishery management fees & fishing boat licence fees during the BAP period.
• Assisting Fishing Cooperatives to adjust to changes in the industry by extending & subsidising leases on Crown Land.
• Promoting best practice, improving social licence with the broader community, and upskilling of commercial fishers.
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To provide bona-fide aquaculture businesses that are impacted by a natural disaster or disease event with short term (12 months) relief from NSW DPI aquaculture permit and lease fees and charges.

The Queensland Sustainable Fisheries Strategy 2017-2027 outlines a ten-year reform agenda for the sustainable management of Queensland fisheries. As part of this strategy, vessel tracking capability will be required on all commercial fishing boats by 2020, with units to be installed on net, line and crab commercial fishing boats by 1 January 2019.

The broad objectives of the Abalone Industry Reinvestment Fund are to support and increase the sustainability and productivity of the abalone fishery both biologically and economically. The fund will support projects to reduce the long spined sea urchin population of the East Coast of Tasmania. It will also support projects to increase abalone stock rates, including larval seeding.

For industry development projects to assist with developing new markets, respond to changes in the world market over recent years, leverage additional resource sustainability funding from national research funding bodies, undertake further economic analysis and increase the value of the catch.

To demonstrate WA fisheries are fished and managed sustainably, and to enhance/maintain market access for WA commercial fisheries. Specifically, to fund the cost of WA's commercial fisheries (wild fishery harvest) achieving the Marine Stewardship Council environmental standard and to provide for policy, compliance and research support for the assessments.