I note with interest a report that is reasonably old now, the Australian Aquaculture Research and Innovation Strategy, full report available at http://www.australian-aquacultureportal.com/action_agenda/pdf/rdreport.pdf and am interested in the one project that one of the teams is doing on yellowtail kingfish and the extract from the report “The value and tonnage of aquaculture comes from few high value developed species, with southern bluefin tuna, pearl oysters, Atlantic salmon, prawn and edible oysters accounting for about 95% of the GVP.
By weight these species plus the developing species of trout, barramundi and mussels account for about 97% of aquaculture production.
Of the remaining 60 odd potential opportunity species, abalone, rock lobster and yellow tail king fish show some commercial opportunity. Aquaculture represents around one third of Australia’s fisheries revenue, but accounts for only 20% of the total volume of fisheries production, as a result of the higher value products produced from aquaculture relative to wild fisheries.”
I will be really interested to see the outcomes of their work and whether it can move into being a high value species.
In general this report provides a lot of interesting reading on a number of topics including some of our competitors work and what we can learn from them.
