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Sustainable Fishing Families: Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety and resilience

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posted on 2023-12-11, 23:54 authored by TJ King, K Abernethy, S Brumby, T Hatherell, Susan KilpatrickSusan Kilpatrick, K Munksgaard, R Turner

An industry is only as healthy and sustainable as its members. In recent years, concern for the health, safety and wellbeing of the professional wild-catch fishing industry has been growing in Australia.

In response, this project conducted the first national survey of the health, safety and wellbeing of the Australian professional fishing industry in 2017. The results of the survey provide a baseline for the state of the wild-catch industry members across a range of indicators, including reported physical and mental health, factors affecting health and safety, factors affecting levels of stress, health and safety behaviours, and access to health services and information.

The project also conducted and evaluated an intensive pilot program on health, safety and wellbeing tailored specifically for fishing families. The program was modelled on an existing and highly successful program with farming families, Sustainable Farm FamiliesTM developed and delivered by the National Centre for Farmer Health, at the Western District Health Service, Victoria. The materials and presentations were reviewed and modified to reflect the specific strengths and challenges of the fishing industry. For the first time, this award-winning program is now available for use by fishing communities across the country.

The Sustainable Fishing Families project was a collaboration of academic and practical expertise including Deakin University, the National Centre of Farmer Health (NCFH), University of Tasmania, and University of Exeter.

Funding

Fisheries Research & Development Corporation

History

Commissioning body

Report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

Number

2016/400

Pagination

148

Department/School

Education, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Health Sciences

Publisher

Report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

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Socio-economic Objectives

200507 Occupational health, 200508 Rural and remote area health

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