IPA ABFA - Australian Barramundi Farmers Association

Setting the Strategic Direction for the ABFA 2025-2030

Project number: 2024-031

Project Status:

Current

Budget expenditure: $95,000.00

Principal Investigator: Jo-Anne Ruscoe

Organisation: Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)

Project start/end date: 17 Oct 2024 - 29 May 2025

Contact:

FRDC

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Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

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PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-031

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CURRENT

Setting the Strategic Direction for the ABFA 2025-2030

Commercial in confidence

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Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)

PROJECT NUMBER • 2024-014

PROJECT STATUS:

CURRENT

National coordination of access to agricultural and veterinary chemicals in the Australian seafood industry

1. Provide national coordination of agricultural and veterinary (AgVet) chemical products in aquaculture

ORGANISATION:

Seafood Industry Australia (SIA)

PROJECT NUMBER • 2023-207

PROJECT STATUS:

CURRENT

ABFA IPA Using consumer market research to develop a branding strategy

Commercial in confidence

ORGANISATION:

Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)

ABFA IPA Using consumer market research to develop a branding strategy

Project number: 2023-207

Project Status:

Current

Budget expenditure: $45,000.00

Principal Investigator: Jo-Anne Ruscoe

Organisation: Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)

Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2024 - 31 Oct 2024

Contact:

FRDC

Need

Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

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Preliminary evaluation of electro stunning technology for farmed Barramundi

Project number: 2021-051

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $21,123.00

Principal Investigator: Brian Paterson

Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Brisbane

Project start/end date: 11 Nov 2021 - 28 Feb 2022

Contact:

FRDC

SPECIES

Barramundi

Need

The Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA) called for an EOI via FRDC for a proposal to evaluate alternative humane harvest methods for farmed barramundi. Specifically, the ABFA identified electro-stunning as a technology of interest to further optimise animal welfare outcomes, while maintaining product quality. The association needs all available information reviewed to evaluate the technology’s potential and if recommended, to help shape the direction of future R&D into the suitability of electro-stunning for the barramundi industry. As a precursor to possible on-farm trials, the ABFA wants to better understand the nature of the technology and learn from international experience in other fish culture sectors. This full proposal addresses the ABFA’s desire for greater insight into; (a) consumer’s attitudes towards fish harvesting and slaughter; (b) the state of uptake of similar technologies by other aquaculture sectors; (c) how to adapt electro-stunning efficiently into a harvest process for a range of barramundi farm sites; (d) whether local or overseas manufacturers/agents can be engaged to co-fund tests of equipment on-farm; and (e) what requirements must be met to make that testing possible and how it would be conducted.
Approval of the EOI was subject to the full application addressing the need for the literature review to include any work on methodology for establishing product quality indicators in addition to welfare indicators (Condition 9).

Objectives

1. Information about electro-stunning in fish aquaculture (reports, publications, websites, media) found using broad and selective web-searching as well as via on-line databases and then compiled/prioritised into an organised electronic library. The other objectives are addressed from this starting point.

2. Identify declared attitudes and expectations of consumers, leading retailers, and animal welfare groups concerning electro-stunning of farmed fish

3. Identify farmed fish sectors using electro-stunning for slaughter or other purposes and the known pros and cons of integrating it into their operations (including demonstrated cost-benefit, and welfare and product quality outcomes).

4. Describe the principle/specifications of electro-stunning and its relevance to different barramundi producers for slaughter and other uses and the desired end points including the methods required to measure product quality and welfare indicators).

5. Shortlist equipment to be tested/adapted on farms and consider IP and partnering/co-funding options

6. Recommend the next steps and a possible structure for a proposal to ABFA that demonstrates the efficacy of the equipment

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