PROGRAM 2: Industry Development
Goal: The Seafood Industry is efficient, profitable and socially and environmentally responsible. Recreational and Traditional sectors enjoy their interaction with the resource.
Strategic Priorities
Support projects that:
- Eliminate technical barriers to improved social, economic and environmental efficiency in Fisheries and Aquaculture production.
- Evaluate the non-biological implications of regulation, including the processes of changing access arrangements.
- Identify the best use and highest economic value for seafood production (thus, maximising the return to the community on extractive production).
- Promote the true value of fisheries and aquaculture to the community-at-large.
- Provide healthy and nutritious food to consumers.
Targeted Priorities
- Resource sharing/access security.
- Compliance/illegal fishing.
- Public perception of the industry.
- Post harvest enhancement/supply chain management.
- Maintain highest standards of integrated technology across the industry.
- Innovative marketing techniques.
- Farm husbandry.
- Nutrition of farmed species.
- Propagation.
- Fish health.
