Projects in the Natural Environment
Fisheries
Social research in fisheries includes social assessments of fishers and the fishing industry and the social and economic impacts of potential changes in marine resource use.
GIS and survey research methods have often been used to identify and describe how changes in potential marine resource use may impact on fishing families and communities and the geographic location of these impacts. Social and economic indicators have been developed of the fishing industry, families and communities which have been used to assess vulnerability and capacity to change.
Recent Reports and Publications
- Report on the social and economic impacts of proposed fisheries spawning closures on the Great Barrier Reef charter fishing industry (2002).
- Social assessment of the south east trawl fishery: Application of TRC-analysis (2001).
- Fisheries resource use: Analysis of log book and survey data (2001).
- Commercial fishers database: A guide to the commercial fishers of Queensland (2001).
- Review of social and economic assessments of the NSW estuary fisheries environmental impact assessment (2001).
- Review of social and economic assessments of the NSW ocean haul fisheries environmental impact assessment (2001).
- A guide to the fishers of Queensland: TRC-analysis and social profiles of the commercial fishing industry (2000).
- The Queensland harvest fishery: TRC-analysis and social profiles (2000).
- The Queensland tourism fisheries charter industry: TRC-analysis and social profiles (2000).
- Fenton, D.M., Coakes, S., and Marshall, N. (2003). Vulnerability and capacity measurement. In H.A. Becker and F. Vanclay (Eds.) The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment: Conceptual and Methodological Advances. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Fenton, D.M. & Marshall, N. (2000) Social assessment of the commercial fishing industry in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: The application of TRC-Analysis in identifying primary and secondary resource catchments. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia, 2, 749-757.
- Larcombe, J., Brooks, K., Charalambou, C., Fenton, M., Kinloch, M., and Summerson, R. (2002). Marine Matters - Atlas of marine activities and coastal communities in Australia’s South-East Marine Region. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.