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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
For the week ending 13 December 2023, troughs generated rainfall totals of up to 150 millimetres across tropical Northern Australia and South Australia. The movement of Tropical Cyclone Jasper brought rainfall in northeast…
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Aquaculture has had another successful year within the Australian seafood industry, according to the latest edition of ABARES Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics.
Acting ABARES Executive Director David Galeano said the gross value of fishery and aquaculture production (GVP) in 2021-22…
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14 December 2023
Who does this notice affect?
All clients anticipating outcomes of biosecurity activities.
Information
The department’s network has been impacted by an unplanned outage between 07:15 and 09:45 AEDT Thursday 14 December 2023. This outage limited the department’s ability to…
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14/12/2023
Who does this notice affect?
Import-related biosecurity treatment stakeholders, including all importers, brokerages, onshore approved arrangement holders, overseas government and treatment industry entities, relevant domestic state and territory government agencies, and other shipping…
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Australia’s national diagnostic network for aquatic animal diseases has been developed over time to support the many functions of Australia’s aquatic animal health management system. These include:
confirmation or exclusion of exotic diseases
implementing disease management measures
enterprise…
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Applications for approval of new phytosanitary treatments for seeds for sowing should follow the following guidance. Applications can be sent to imports@aff.gov.au, attention Plant T2.
International standards
Applications should aim to address the requirements included in the International…
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Following on from our hitchhiker pest awareness campaign earlier in 2023, we’ve had a recent uplift in reports from people returning from overseas, after they discovered bugs in their personal effects.
One discovery was reported in Victoria when a traveller returning from Tuscany, Italy found a…
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Options for the Development of National Standards and Guidelines for Animal Welfare
AWTG 06-23 noted an update that a subgroup of the AWTG have developed a stakeholder engagement approach and a draft standards development framework as part of the staged approach to improvement. Initial engagement…
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12 December 2023
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify all Plant Exports Management System (PEMS) users, including plant export clients, exporters and authorised officers of expected system maintenance and associated outage.
Summary of changes and key points
PEMS is…
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12 December 2023
Species: All
Countries: All
Attention
All livestock export stakeholders
Purpose
To advise stakeholders that the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has extended the consultation for stage 2 of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) review.
Key…
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