The work undertaken by Dr Tanya King from Deakin University has highlighted the stress facing commercial fishers. Below is the Deakin University media release and response from QSIA.
Seafood Industry and Mental Health - Dr Tanya King - 6 February 2019
Mental Health, Stress and GP’s - Dr Matt Young - 17 January 2019
Part 2. Dr Jennifer Bowers continued - 14 November 2018
Mental Health and Stress and the Tasmanian Seafood Industry - 9 November 2018
Mental Health and Stress - 29 October 2018
Report 1
King T, Abernethy K, Brumby S, Hatherell T, Kilpatrick S, Munksgaard, K & Turner R. 2018. Sustainable Fishing Families: Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety and resilience. Report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation Project No. 2016/400. Deakin University, Western District Health Service, University of Tasmania and University of Exeter. Canberra, October. CC BY 3.0.
Report 2
Shaw S, Johnson H & Dressler W, 2011. Identifying. Communicating and Integrating Social Considerations into Future Management Concerns in Inshore Commercial Fisheries in Coastal Queensland. Report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation Project No 2008/073. Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra, and the Queensland Seafood Industry Association, Clayfield, Queensland.
Journal Article
King T, Kilpatrick S, Willis K & Speldewinde C, 2015, A Different Kettle of Fish: Mental health strategies for Australian fishers and farmers, Marine Policy, v. 60, pp. 134-140.
A Different Kettle of Fish: Mental health strategies for Australian fishers and farmers
