As a newly emerging Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi) producer in WA, it would benefit staff members of Indian Ocean Fresh Australia to view much larger scale Yellowtail farms and understand how they are managed and how operations are conducted.
Areas of interest include:
Growth rates and...
Seafarmers is a marketer of quality Australian farmed seafood and has spent the past 12 months researching, developing and test marketing barramundi into the UK and European markets. Seafarmers directors have been working with the Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA) and government...
The establishment in 1997of the Fishing Industry Development Council (FIDC), a peak fishing advisory body, set the scene for an examination of where Queensland’s fisheries and the fishing industry sectors were heading in the longer term.
The FIDC is a high level consultative forum...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
This report describes the results of an ex-post benefit cost analysis of the FRDC funded project 'Enhancement of yabby production from Western Australian farm dams' (Project No. 1994-075). The project was carried out by the Western Australian Marine Research Laboratories.
The main findings of the...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA
Farmers receive higher prices per kilo for large yabbies. Yabby farmers have reported that the majority of yabbies trapped from farm dams are below market size (< 30 g) and therefore of no economic value. In addition, farmers also report that while dams produce large yabbies when...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA