NESP MB Project A4 - The status of human-shark interactions and initiatives to mitigate risk in Australia
This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A4 - "The status of human-shark interactions and initiatives to mitigate risk in Australia". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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Considerable political, public and media attention has recently been focussed on human-shark interactions, specifically surrounding shark attack and ways to mitigate this risk. Finding the most appropriate policy balance between conservation of sharks, maximising public safety and understanding the broader social and economic ramifications/drivers for doing so is a continuing challenge for Government. This project will review the status of human-shark interactions in Australia, provide a synthesis of current initiatives to reduce risk, review recent international efforts to address these issues and identify knowledge gaps to provide an informed base for determining the most appropriate future research and policy support.
The project will develop a background document that:
• Provides a synthesis of the current state of knowledge of shark-human interactions in Australia, focussing specifically on species such as white sharks, bull sharks and tiger sharks
• Identifies what initiatives are currently underway nationally to address human-shark interactions including the status of current research as well as current management and policy initiatives.
• Identifies technological developments within Australia and internationally in this space
• Identifies lessons and experiences from these initiatives
• Identifies issues and knowledge gaps
• Provides guidance to the Department regarding further investment that is cognisant of State Government initiatives and requirements and ensure a coordinated national knowledge base for addressing these issues
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-03-23
Resource provider
- Purpose
- This project will provide a background paper on the status of human-shark interactions in Australia, identify current national projects and initiatives in this space (including available information on public perception) review recent international efforts to address these issues and identify knowledge gaps in order to provide an informed base for determining the most appropriate directions for future research that best supports the development of effective Federal and State Government policy initiatives.
- Credit
- Barry Bruce (CSIRO), Michelle Heupel (AIMS)
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Credit
- Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DoE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2015-06-01 2015-12-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
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- Conservation and Biodiversity
- Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
- Keywords (Theme)
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- human-shark interactions
- risk mitigation approaches
- Keywords (Taxon)
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- shark
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) through the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- Department of the Environment and Energy NESP website
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 4bede4d1-29ad-45ee-b84f-1460804c5f46
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- MB Hub Project A4
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4bede4d1-29ad-45ee-b84f-1460804c5f46
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-12-18T14:58:51
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-12-18T14:58:51
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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