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FISH

FISH comprises a suite of fish models—namely, aquaculture farm models (aqua) and integrated biological and economic (bioeconomic) models for a particular area (region, country or country group). The bioeconomic models integrate the biological models of fisheries with behavioral equations representing fishing effort and estimates of fishing costs, and determine catch and effort levels and net returns to the fishery under alternative scenarios.

Decision facilitator

Decision Facilitator is used to work through decisions in meetings, and where prioritisation of criteria needs to be developed quickly by consensus.  Facilitator is a generic, multiple objective decision support tool for prioritising natural resource management options using decision criteria and a weighting scheme. Management options and decision criteria are defined using participatory processes with stakeholders, and the impacts of each management option are scored using measured data, simulation models and expert opinions. Criteria are defined to account for environmental, economic, social, cultural and legislative considerations.

Decision analyst

Supports the visualisation of multi-criteria decision making based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and SMARTER.

Coastal Lake Assessment and Management (CLAM)

The CLAM tool is designed to show the potential impacts of management scenarios within a coastal lake and its catchment. A CLAM tool can be tailored for each coastal lake. The CLAM tool utilises Bayesian Decision Network techniques to integrate social, economic and ecological values of the lake and its community.

Catchment Decision Assistant

CDA is a windows based software package that ranks resource management projects, issues or sites according to defined criteria and their importance. The multi-criteria analysis model used in CDA is the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) with the purpose of AHP to allow decision makers to integrate both objective and subjective criteria in the decision making processes in a way easy for lay people to understand, whilst maintaining accountability, transparency and consistency.

Salinity Updates - e-newsletter

Salinity Updates bring snapshots of what is happening in salinity R&D and technology transfer across Australia. Separate editions are published bi-monthly for WA, SA & NT, Victoria and Tasmania, and for NSW and Queensland.

RipRap - e-newsletter

The newsletter provides information about new research, products and case studies, as well as a wrap up of what is happening around the nation in the area of riparian zone management.

Partners in Research for Development - e-newsletter

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research encourages Australia's agricultural scientists to use their skills for the benefit of developing countries and Australia. The Partners in Research for Development Magazine, reports on people who helped them achieve their goals and those who benefit from better policies, increased productivity and more sustainable agriculture. Each edition posted on the website, spotlights activities in a country or region, and presents stories grouped thematically around specific agricultural issues.

Pannell discussions - e-newsletter

Brief pieces on issues and ideas in economics, science, the environment, natural resource management, politics, people, agriculture and whatever else.

Oceanwatch Australia Newsletter - e-newsletter

This newsletter highlights the activities of the SeaNet Extension Officers, reports on projects undertaken and opportunities for fisheries researchers and commercial fishers to cooperate on improvements to current fishing and management practices and protect Australia's marine habitats and fisheries resources. OceanWatch Australia News is a quarterly electronic newsletter emailed to subscribers. It contains updates on our work and programs including SeaNet.