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‘Wave to Plate’: establishing a market for cultural fisheries in Tasmania

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posted on 2024-07-12, 19:46 authored by Emma LeeEmma Lee
The FRDC project, ‘Wave to Plate’: establishing a market for cultural fisheries in Tasmania, is the first time that an Aboriginal Tasmanian postdoctoral researcher has engaged with marine research in Tasmania. Indigenous-led research has delivered a raft of outcomes that can be considered important social shifts for Tasmanian Aboriginal fisheries in over a generation, and, at the time of writing, the Tasmanian Government is actively working to implement the outcomes of the project in relation to access to resources and good governance. This project has been successful in highlighting the barriers to participation and engagement in cultural fisheries, specifically the current regulatory and policy frameworks that impede progress towards regional development and the contributions that cultural economies of Aboriginal Tasmanians can make to the Tasmanian state. It has identified gaps in knowledge and posited future research directions that are Indigenous-led and centred upon connections to sea country. The project has also been successful in publicly demonstrating the appetite for cultural fisheries through the trialling of the ‘Wave to Plate’ concept with commercial partners. There has been increased understanding from government, Aboriginal communities, industry and research stake holders and partners to the potential of new markets and developmental fisheries from making centre and core Aboriginal Tasmanian connections to sea country. New collaborations with food tourism interests have resulted from the project to inject cultural strengths into Tasmanian fisheries. This report outlines several key areas that must be considered for establishing a market for cultural fisheries in Tasmania. These include: - access to marine resources for Aboriginal Tasmanians; - the governance forms, such as a proposed Indigenous Fisheries Advisory Committee and cultural marine planning unit, to assist in decision-making that provide fairness, equity,transparency and opportunities for Aboriginal Tasmanians to develop cultural fisheries that suit local conditions; - the models for Indigenous rights to resources and business enterprise that provides a best fit for Aboriginal Tasmanian regional development and fisheries management; - the research directions that require a multi-disciplinary focus; and - the types of partnerships that can aid in the establishing a market for cultural fisheries. The report demonstrates that there is a vast array of good will towards Aboriginal Tasmanian aspirations and a variety of means upon which the direction of fisheries can deliver mutual benefit. Above all, there is a breadth and depth of Aboriginal Tasmanian community expertise to create a new industry based upon ancient traditions.

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9781925761092

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Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) Project no. 2016-204: Indigenous business development opportunities and impediments in the fishing and seafood industry

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Swinburne University of Technology

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Copyright © 2019 Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. All rights reserved. All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

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Project was funded by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC). Principle investigator: Marcus Haward, University of Tasmania.

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eng

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