Industry Health

QSIA is shocked by the research findings of high levels of psychological distress amongst Australia’s fishing industry.

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.

QSIA Podcasts

Seafood Industry and Mental Health - Dr Tanya King - 6 February 2019

Mental Health, Stress and GP’s - Dr Matt Young - 17 January 2019

Dr Mark Deady, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Black Dog Institute and the University of New South Wales - 14 November 2018

Part 1. Dr Jennifer Bowers, Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer – Rural & Remote Mental Health - 14 November 2018

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

 

Research Papers

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.

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

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.

Identifying. Communicating and Integrating Social Considerations into Future Management Concerns in Inshore Commercial Fisheries in Coastal 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