Livelihood Values of Indigenous Customary Fishing Final Report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
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Livelihood values of Indigenous customary fishing Final report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation Luke Smyth Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Hayley Egan Barefeet Research, Consultancy and Collaboration Dr Rod Kennett Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre (formerly AIATSIS) November 2018 FRDC Project No 2015/205 © 2018 Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-922-10273-7 1922102733 (E-book) Livelihood values of Indigenous customary fishing: Final report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation Project Number: 2015/205 Year of Publication: 2018 Ownership of Intellectual property rights Unless otherwise noted, copyright (and any other intellectual property rights, if any) in this publication is owned by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC, Milingimbi & Outstations Progress Resource Association, and NSW Aboriginal Fishing Rights Group. This publication (and any information sourced from it) should be attributed to: Smyth, L., Egan, H. and Kennett, R., Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2018, Livelihood values of Indigenous customary fishing: Final report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra. Cover photographs (clockwise from top left): Charles and Joe shucking a razor fish at Alexander’s Beach, Ceduna, SA, 12 December 2016. Photographer: Jacinta Haseldine. People helping Aboriginal cultural-commercial fishers with their beach haul, Barlings Beach, NSW, 26 January 2015. Photographer: Wally Stewart. Jason and Jarrod netting garkuyi (bluetail mullet) northwest of Milingimbi, NT, July 2017. Photographer: John Paul Janke. Fresh garkuyi (bluetail mullet) for sale at the shop in Milingimbi, NT, July 2017. Photographer: John Paul Janke. Cooking oysters over coals at Point Vivon, SA, 20 May 2017. Photographer: Joe Ligadua. Barbecuing mutton fish (abalone) for a community gathering at Narooma, NSW, 19 March 2016. Photographer: Robert Chewying. Disclaimer The authors do not warrant that the information in this document is free from errors or omissions. The authors do not accept any form of liability, be it contractual, tortious, or otherwise, for the contents of this document or for any consequences arising from its use or any reliance placed upon it. The information, opinions and advice contained in this document may not relate, or be relevant, to a reader’s particular circumstances. Opinions expressed by the authors are the individual opinions expressed by those persons and are not necessarily those of the publisher, research provider or the FRDC. The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation plans, invests in and manages fisheries research and development throughout Australia. It is a statutory authority within the portfolio of the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, jointly funded by the Australian Government and the fishing industry. Researcher Contact Details FRDC Contact Details Name: AIATSIS Address: 25 Geils Court Address: GPO Box 553 Deakin ACT 2600 Canberra City ACT 2601 Phone: 02 6285 0400 Phone: (02) 6246 1111 Fax: 02 6285 0499 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.aiatsis.gov.au Web: www.frdc.com.au In submitting this report, the researcher has agreed to FRDC publishing this material in its edited form. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers of this report are respectfully advised that it may contain the names and images of people who have died. This report also contains references to topics and events which some readers may find distressing, including massacres, forced displacement, dispossession, racial prejudice and discrimination, incarceration and mental illness. All efforts have been made to ensure that cultural knowledge contained in this report which could be considered sensitive, secret or sacred has been deemed fit for public dissemination by those who own or are responsible for it. To this end in some instances general descriptions have replaced the detailed information that research participants originally provided. Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................................. i Abbreviations ......................................................................................................................................... ii Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................. iii Background ...................................................................................................................................... iii Objectives ........................................................................................................................................ iii Methodology .................................................................................................................................... iv Key findings ..................................................................................................................................... iv Implications for relevant stakeholders ............................................................................................... v Recommendations .............................................................................................................................. v Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 6 About this report ................................................................................................................................6 Background ........................................................................................................................................7 Need ...................................................................................................................................................9 Objectives ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Methods ................................................................................................................................................ 12 Case study partner organisations and regions ..................................................................................12 Indigenous research protocols and ethics ........................................................................................12 Identification of project participants ...............................................................................................13 Data collected ..................................................................................................................................13 Data collection instruments .............................................................................................................14 Short rating scale questionnaires ...............................................................................................14 Longer interview guides ............................................................................................................15 Data analysis ....................................................................................................................................16 Short questionnaire data ............................................................................................................16 Longer interview data................................................................................................................16 Report back and community input ...................................................................................................17 Results .................................................................................................................................................. 17 Short instrument results ...................................................................................................................18 South Coast NSW ............................................................................................................................20 Background ...............................................................................................................................20 Values ........................................................................................................................................22 Barriers and effects ...................................................................................................................27 Aspirations ................................................................................................................................30 Far West Coast SA ...........................................................................................................................31 Background ...............................................................................................................................31 Values ........................................................................................................................................33 Barriers and effects ...................................................................................................................36