TSQAP 2011/2012

TSQAP News

•  Locally –  Growing area reports –  Events during 2011/2012 –  Algal sampling frequency –  Inactive leases –  Budget

•  Nationally •  Internationally •  Looking forward to 2013

2011/2012

•  Shellfish sites around the

state

2011/2012

•  Extended rainfall closures

•  Major flood events

2011/2012

2011/2012

•  Extended rainfall closures

•  Major flood events

•  Sanitary survey issues

2011/2012

•  Extended rainfall closures

•  Major flood events

•  Sanitary survey issues

•  Conditions outside

normal

2011/2012

•  Extended rainfall closures

•  Major flood events

•  Sanitary survey issues

•  Conditions outside

normal

•  Sewage overflows

2011/2012

•  Extended rainfall closures

•  Major flood events

•  Sanitary survey issues

•  Conditions outside

normal

•  Sewage overflows

•  Toxic blooms

2011/2012 – a busy time for TSQAP!

•  Extended rainfall closures

•  Major flood events

•  Sanitary survey issues

•  Conditions outside

normal

•  Sewage overflows

•  Toxic blooms

•  New growing areas

New Scientific Officer – Mark Lobban

Algal monitoring frequency

•  After two years of receiving CAR’s from DAFF on the algal monitoring frequency we have had to develop a policy to improve

•  Every growing area has an industry sampler and a set timetable for sampling

•  A “gentle” reminder is sent if a sample is missed

•  The growing area is closed the next week if a sample is not forthcoming

•  Thank your sampler

•  Make sure your area has a back-up

Inactive Leases

•  No longer monitored by TSQAP

•  Classification will lapse

•  Plan ahead if you want to re-activate

Budget increases

Budget Increases •  Sampling

–  Heavy metals and pesticides

–  Algal monitoring –  Biotoxins –  Bacterial sampling

•  Motor vehicle •  Other

Efforts to reduce the budget •  Reduced boat work –

hitching a lift with farmers •  Reduced contract

samplers

Nationally

• Great co-operation between three major states now • Australian Seafood Biotoxin Partnership - Biotoxin lab now in Sydney

• FSANZ review of biotoxin maximum allowable levels

• drop the level of DST from 20 mg/kg to 16 mg/kg (shouldn’t affect us)

• ASQAP manual rewrite - Big ticket item

• SafeFish

Nationally

Internationally

• Viruses – risk assessments of viruses in growing areas, with the probable requirement that some areas will be subjected to regular testing requirements (e.g. areas in large populations)

• Vibrios – similarly • Salmonella – scientific opinion paper resulting in a potential removal from export sampling requirements

• Codex – methods for determination of biotoxins (both screening and confirmatory)

Codex Committee of Fish and Fisheries Products

Looking forward to 2013

• Relaying protocol development

• Development of practical means of reducing the sampling

budget

• Increased biotoxin testing – regular testing in medium and

high risk areas during the high risk period

• SENSET

SenseT

SenseT

Decision support tool •  Real time

•  All sensor data on one page

•  Traffic light warnings

•  Machine learning

•  Stage 2: closure predictions

•  Stage 3: redundant TSQAP

manager!!

What’s Ray up to?