This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub project "Improving socio-ecological understanding of natural values in Australian Marine Parks". No public data outputs will be generated by this project. -------------------- Parks Australia (Australian Government) manage 60 Australian Marine Parks (AMPs) around the country, covering an area of 3.8 million square kilometres, or 43% of all Australian waters. The approach to managing AMPs is set out in eight Management Plans, one for each of the five marine park networks (North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East) and one each for the Coral Sea Marine Park, Christmas Island Marine Park and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park. A statutory review of Management Plans for the North, North-west, South-west, Temperate-East networks and the Coral Sea Marine Park is scheduled for 2028. This project will progress the use of socio-economic information to support the management of and contribute to the review of Australian Marine Parks. It will build on previous research funded by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) to redevelop socio-economic benchmarks to support Parks Australia’s new sentinel park approach and network scale reporting. The project will estimate changes in public awareness, attitudes, and usage patterns since a 2019/20 benchmark - crucial for the upcoming statuatory revoew of AMP Management Plans in 2028. The work will additionally contribute to the overall management effectiveness system by integrating socio-economic and natural values data, together with improved socio-ecological understanding, complementing NESP-led data synthesis projects (SS2, D7, 1.3, 4.20 and 4.21) at both Sentinel Park and Network scales. Approach • A repeatable national knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) boat ramp survey will be redesigned based around a survey developed in NESP MaC Project D6. The survey will target recreational fishers and non-fishers who use AMPS around Australia, with nine survey locations to be selected in collaboration with Parks Australia. • A national general public survey will be redesigned to explore broader community views towards the AMP network, including attitudes to AMP management zones. • Surveys are likely to cover the Coral Sea, North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East networks. Outputs • Responses from recreational user surveys [dataset]. In accordance with National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research, only aggregated outputs will be made publicly available. Please contact the project leader (Matt Navarro) for further information. • Final technical report [written]

It is recognised that Indigenous communities are likely to be impacted by Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) wind farm developments. This work conducted a desktop study to identify Traditional Owner interests in areas adjacent to current ORE development areas. The purpose of the work was to gauge the extent of existing knowledge on cultural values and list appropriate avenues for future engagement with Traditional Owners to better understand the potential impact of ORE developments. This included identifying existing Sea Country plans for these communities, identifying existing information on cultural values, investigating Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property, and further notes on preferred methods of engagement for these Indigenous communities potentially impacted by ORE developments. This raw spreadsheet of compiled information is withheld due to cultural sensitivities, but a synthesis of information is available in the Project 3.3 final report: see sections 4.8, 5.8, 6.8, 7.8 & 8.8 (https://www.nespmarinecoastal.edu.au/publication/guiding-research-and-best-practice-standards-for-the-sustainable-development-of-offshore-renewables-and-other-emerging-marine-industries-in-australia). Please contact the NESP Data Wrangler (Southern node) to discuss access to the raw spreadsheet of information: Emma.Flukes@utas.edu.au

1. Workforce Tasmania’s commercial fishing industry workforce is defined as those people engaged in economic activity (work) within the sector across or at a given time, either in paid employment or self-employment. For fisheries this includes skippers and crew employed as sub-contractors and paid on a share of catch arrangement. It can include people engaged in unpaid work undertaken as part of these activities, although this has not been included in this assessment. Monitoring workforce changes is important because these changes indicate changes in social and economic benefits at a statewide and regional community level. Factors which affect workforce size include the extent to which a policy of maximizing technical efficiency is pursued through management, which typically reduces the fleet size and therefore the number of people employed. Other factors include the level of stock availability and access, the cost of entry into the fishery, and the financial profitability of fishing. Because of these factors, many fishers are engaged in employment in multiple fisheries or other marine sectors in order to supplement fishing incomes and pursue full-time employment. 1.1. Abalone The commercial harvesters catching abalone species operate within the Tasmanian Abalone Fishery. Assessment of workforce indicators is undertaken at fishery level. The data provided for this fishery is for the Tasmanian Abalone Fishery as a whole, which includes harvesting activity for this species as well as all other species caught in this fishery. 1.2. Commercial Dive species The commercial harvesters catching these species operate within the Tasmanian Commercial Dive Fishery. Assessment of workforce indicators is undertaken at fishery level. The data provided here is for the Tasmanian Commercial Dive species as well as all other species caught in this fishery. 1.3. Giant crab species The commercial harvesters catching giant crab operate within the Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery. Assessment of workforce indicators is undertaken at fishery level. 1.4. Scalefish species The commercial harvesters catching this scalefish species operate within the Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery. Assessment of workforce indicators is undertaken at fishery level. The data provided here is for the Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery as a whole, which includes harvesting activity for this species as well as all other species caught in this fishery. 1.5. Scallop species The commercial harvesters catching species of scallop operate within the Tasmanian Scallop Fishery. Assessment of workforce indicators is undertaken at fishery level. 1.6. Southern rock lobster The commercial harvesters catching southern rock lobster operate within the Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery. Assessment of workforce indicators is undertaken at fishery level. 2. Workforce Indicators 2.1. Persons Workforce size (the total number of people directly employed) includes both skippers and crew, and those employed full time and part time. 2.2. Employment FTE The number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) positions in each fishery is also estimated. This indicator shows that while a higher number of people may be employed in a fishery, some of these jobs may be part-time. Therefore, the number of FTEs is typically lower than the number of people in the workforce. In this iteration of the dataset, this value is unavailable for the abalone fishery in 2016, 2017, and 2019, and does not apply to the scallop fishery in any of the years available (2016-2020). 2.3. Active Supers The number of supervisors (skippers) employed in the fishery. 2.4. Harvest Units (TAS HP) The number of harvest units (combination of licensed vessel and fishing entitlement) active in a fleet and the number of people who actively harvest fish as supervisors (skippers) in a commercial fishery are directly linked to the size of the workforce in each fishery. In many cases, multiple supervisors may be linked to the same harvest unit, so the number of supervisors is often higher.

This data presents the economic contribution of six key fisheries and aquaculture production sectors to the Tasmanian economy. These six fisheries and aquaculture sectors are: - Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery; - Tasmanian Abalone Fishery; - Tasmanian Scalefish Fishery; - Tasmanian Salmonid Aquaculture; - Tasmanian Pacific Oyster Aquaculture; and - Tasmanian Abalone Aquaculture. The economic contribution of these fisheries and aquaculture sectors are measured through the following indicators: - Gross Value Added (GVA) - Contribution to Household Income - Number of persons employed - Contribution to the total full-time equivalent (FTE) workforce The work was undertaken by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania in collaboration with BDO and builds on the foundations and approach set out in 2017/18 National Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry Contributions Study (FRDC 2017-210). To generate the values for the indicators listed above, the framework recommended in Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry: Economic Contributions Estimates - Practitioner Guidelines 2019 (IMAS 2020) was applied. For the analysis in this report, the contribution of immediate processing or farm gate retail activity is not included. The estimates are based on the best available information at the time of writing and apply input-output modelling (developed by BDO) that uses the economic profiles and conversion to basic prices as provided by IMAS. The study was conducted to contribute to the measuring and monitoring of the contribution of Tasmania’s seafood production activities to the economic prosperity and wellbeing of Tasmanians. Understanding the economic contribution of the seafood processing sector is a significant area for further research in advancing our knowledge of the economy broadly associated with fishing and aquaculture in Tasmania.