Alliance commits $25.9m for aquaculture development
08 August 2007AUSTRALIA - PORT Lincoln aquaculture firm Clean Seas Tuna has teamed up with the Australian Seafood Co-operative Research Centre to help provide $25.9 million over the next seven years for aquaculture development.
The Seafood CRC and Fisheries Research & Development Corporation will each invest $600,000 a year over three years, with the option to extend this contribution up to 2014.
Clean Seas has an underwritten commitment of $4.2 million on research and development expenditure over the next seven years. The company will also make in-kind contributions of $9.3 million.
The remaining funding will come from participating research institutes which include Flinders University, University of the Sunshine Coast and others.
Clean Seas is also making a "untied" contribution to the CRC of $25,000 a year.
The investment aims at completing Clean Seas' closure of the lifecycle of southern bluefin tuna and improving the sustainable production of yellowtail kingfish and mulloway for world markets.
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Source: Adelaide now
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