Time Honours Fish Breeding Invention
AUSTRALIA - An Australian company’s breakthrough in the breeding of Southern Bluefin Tuna in captivity has been named as the world’s second best invention of the...

Investment Boosts Aquaculture Innovation
AUSTRALIA - A James Cook University-developed innovation for enhancing the growth and quality of the tropical aquatic vegetable “Green Caviar” (Caulerpa lentillifera)...

New Feed Launched for Bluefin Tuna
AUSTRALIA - Ridley Corporation has developed a new feed that a commercial trial has proved to boost growth of young southern bluefin tuna.

New AKVA Group RAS Project For Tuna
UK - AKVA group has signed a new contract with Clean Seas Tuna (Stehr Group) for the delivery of a complete UNI-recirculation marine hatchery for Southern Bluefin...

Call for Members to New Consultative Body
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA - Participants from the state's fishing sectors are being sought to join a new Fisheries Consultative Body, which will significantly improve...

Ridley Poised to Make Acquisitions
AUSTRALIA - Feed company, Ridley Corporation, has posted a net loss of almost 40 million Australian dollars (AUD) but says it is on the look-out for further acquisitions....

Funds for WA Open Cage Fish Farm Dry Up
AUSTRALIA - Interest in an open ocean aquaculture project off the Western Australian coast has dried up, one of the latest victims of the financial crisis.

Australian Abalone Investors Stuck in Limbo
AUSTRALIA - Investors in an aquaculture company, whose abalone breeding programmes were hit by mortality rates of up to 100 per cent, have launched a bid to keep...

Call for Australian Abalone Enquiry Rejected
AUSTRALIA - The Opposition is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into a failed west coast aquaculture company in South Australia.

Abalone Rush Leads to Industry Collapse
AUSTRALIA - Warnings about the risks of abalone farming at sites on South Australia's remote Eyre Peninsula were ignored by Australian Bight Abalone, of which...

Clean Seas Incurs Losses Ready for Changeover Year
AUSTRALIA - Clean Seas Tuna Ltd has warned that it would incur a net loss of about AU$6 million for the second half of the 2009 year, compared with the first-half...

Industry Demands Compensation for Oil Spill
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - Queensland Seafood Industry Association says members are seeking compensation from Swire Shipping for loss of income.

Australia's Largest Abalone Company in Deep Waters
AUSTRALIA - The directors of the Australian Bight Abalone Group today resolved to place the company into voluntary administration.

Report Published on Meat, Fish Retailing in Australia
AUSTRALIA - A new report entitled Meat Fish and Poultry Retailing in Australia provides the current and historical performance of the meat, fish and poultry...

Clean Seas Develops Hi-tech Feed Station
AUSTRALIA - Australian aquaculture company Clean Seas Tuna has developed a multi-million dollar feeding station for its Kingfish grow-out operations to improve ...

Clean Seas Tuna Ltd Raise $13 Million
AUSTRALIA - Clean Seas Tuna Ltd has raised $13 million via a placement of ordinary shares.

Low Chemical Levels at Sunland Fish Hatchery
AUSTRALIA - Test results released today show the presence of very low levels of agricultural chemicals at a site in the Noosa area under investigation by the Noosa...

Airlift for Tuna
AUSTRALIA - Australian aquaculture company Clean Seas is today flying millions of dollars worth of tuna from sea pens to its onshore breeding facility at Arno Bay...

Obstacles to Overcome Before Clean Seas Commercialise Bluefin
AUSTRALIA - About 250 fingerlings have been kept from this year's trial breeding programme of Clean Seas Tuna. Whilst the company has overcome many problems there...

Clean Seas Raise $24 Million for Breeding Bluefin
AUSTRALIA - Australian aquaculture pioneer Clean Seas Tuna Limited has announced a $13.1 million placement and an underwritten 1 for 8 Rights Issue to raise $10.9...

Spring Bay Closed Cycle Mussels: a Friend of the Sea
AUSTRALIA - Spring Bay Mussel Farm, found to excel in all sustainability standards, have received the Friend of the Sea certification.

Clean Seas' Billion Dollar Babies
AUSTRALIA - They may only be a fraction of the size of a human pinky finger but these Southern Bluefin Tuna babies born on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula last...

World's First: Spawning of Captive Bluefin Tuna
SUNSHINE COAST, AUSTRALIA - University of the Sunshine Coast scientists have helped create aquaculture history through their involvement in a project that has...

Port Lincoln Aquaculture at Threat to Iron Ore
AUSTRALIA - The Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association says the South Australian Government needs to consider the possibility of job losses if a...

Parengarenga Gives Kingfish Farming Another Go
AUSTRALIA - The Parengarenga Incorporation has informed its estimated 1800 shareholders it intends to seek an investor to put up $5.5million to build a new $4.7million...