A3:Understanding Australian Government Core Core climate change adaptation Impacts of climate government government initiatives variability and business business Ongoing Commonwealth and change state monitoring programs Ongoing research activity Government programs for new research priorities A4: Minimising Development and Core Core implementation of the vessel collisions government government Australian Government ship business business strike strategy to mitigate plus against vessel / cetacean $100,000 collisions B: Enabling and measuring recovery B1: Measuring and Ongoing Australian and state $500,000 $3 million government monitoring monitoring Pilot to per programs population determine dedicated Ongoing research activity recovery monitoring whale Government programs for technique research new research priorities for voyage to population Antarctica abundance B2: Describe the Ongoing Commonwealth and $300,000 $200,000 state research activity. population contingent Government grant programs structure of blue upon B1 for new research priorities. whales B.3: Describe the Ongoing Commonwealth and $500,000 $500,000 - – state research activity. spatial and $1 million $1 million Government program for temporal new research priorities. distribution of blue whales and further define Biologically Important Areas 6.3.Reporting Process A comprehensive monitoring regime for this Conservation Management Plan includes two aspects: Monitoring of the population; and Monitoring of the progress of actions in the plan and detailing the adaptive management for the next plan.
A3:Understanding Impacts of climate variability and change Australian Government climate change adaptation initiatives Ongoing Commonwealth and state monitoring programs Ongoing research activity Government programs for new research priorities Core government business Core government business A4: Minimising vessel collisions Development and implementation of the Australian Government ship strike strategy to mitigate against vessel / cetacean collisions Core government business plus $100,000 Core government business B: Enabling and measuring recovery B1: Measuring and monitoring population recovery Ongoing Australian and state government monitoring programs Ongoing research activity Government programs for new research priorities $500,000 Pilot to determine monitoring technique for population abundance $3 million per dedicated whale research voyage to Antarctica B2: Describe the population structure of blue whales Ongoing Commonwealth and state research activity. Government grant programs for new research priorities. $300,000 $200,000 contingent upon B1 B.3: Describe the spatial and temporal distribution of blue whales and further define Biologically Important Areas Ongoing Commonwealth and state research activity. Government program for new research priorities. $500,000 – $1 million $500,000 - $1 million 6.3.Reporting Process A comprehensive monitoring regime for this Conservation Management Plan includes two aspects: Monitoring of the population; and Monitoring of the progress of actions in the plan and detailing the adaptive management for the next plan.