The Factors Of The Aquaculture In Australia

The consumer market for freshwater ornamental fish and related products in the US exceeds $700 million annually and is growing at a rate of nearly 9% per year

Seafood processing industry in Australia deals with processing of seafood apart from catching. One of the major player in this industry is Tassal Group Limited located in Tasmania. Tassal is a world leading company in Salmon production. It deals with hatching, farming, processing as well as sales and marketing of Salmon fish making it largest Salmon fish producer in Australia.

I strive to find a more sustainable alternative to wild caught fish and crustaceans without having to compromise on the quality or taste of the animal. If achieved, this could take pressure of the wild stocks of fish. My end goal in pursuing this graduate degree is to start my own aquaculture farm in South Florida. South Florida has a few key attributes that allow for the success of aquaculture production. The peninsular shape of Florida allows seawater to penetrate the southern tip of the Florida aquifer allowing the farmers easy access to high quality seawater. Also, being surrounded by water on three sides, the people of Florida are accustomed to eaten fresh, high quality seafood. Unfortunately, over the last few years there has been an influx of foreign farmed raised fish that now make up almost 50% of the market for seafood in the US. The problem is the regulations overseas are no where near as stringent as they are in the US, making it difficult to determine what type of fish as well as what antibiotics or other chemicals could be contaminating the fish. Finally, the environmental sustainability of many of the overseas aquaculture operations is questionable at best. All these issues can be corrected by moving the operations to the US. This degree would allow me to gain the knowledge and expertise required to open my own business. I think there

The rock lobster fishery is a principal business in the Tasmanian industry, supplying considerable benefits by exporting to the mainland (local) and international fishing markets from both the commercial fishery and an enjoyable fishing. Although exports of cooked product have decreased, the exporting of live rock lobster product has improved dramatically since the late 1980s.The main target market was Hong Kong while Japan, the United States of America and China/Taipei were imported as top second markets in 2006/2007(Dpipwe.tas.gov.au, 2015).

Planet Shrimp wants to use ‘clean’ shrimp as their main point of differentiation, highlighting their closed-loop aquaculture process that does not involve toxins and ensures environmental sustainability throughout. As consumers are continually concerned about knowing where their food comes from, the safety of their food and price point, Planet Shrimp should understand how to educate the public about the ‘clean’ shrimp movement (The Canadian Press, 2014a). To achieve this, Planet Shrimp must answer the question:

This essay will focus on the bluefin tuna industry in Japan, a country which consumes the majority of the global catch. The industry is one driven by the sudden increase in demand for sushi, a Japanese haute food which is now consumed globally. It will also illustrate the uniqueness and important role which the bluefin tuna plays in aquatic ecosystems throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Lastly, the issues of globalization and lack of market regulation will be examined as a cause for the collapse in Atlantic bluefin fisheries. The tuna industry in Japan is having negative environmental impacts on the oceanic ecosystem.

Chelsey D. Hillyer in her article, “Is aquaponics the agriculture of the future?” exhibits her knowledge on how aquaponics would be used in a mass production type of way. She describes how if local farmers were to try to get into the aquaculture is too difficult to get into. She claims that, “China and Taiwan dominate the U.S. import market for fish, accounting for almost 100% of all shipments of whole fish in 2006.” With this sort of statistic, local farmers would have a very little to no chance in branching into the market of fish using aquaponic

The fish are not available in California due to state regulations that ban biotech aquatic organisms (GloFish, 2011). In addition, Singapore – where the fish was originally engineered – has been reluctant to approve its sale (Ely, 2004). This places an additional limit on potential marketing and distribution strategies.

Overfishing has been challenged by the rise of fish farming, or aquaculture, which allows popular fish such as salmon to be raised on farms. Aquaculture does help prevent the depletion of wild populations at an unsustainable rate, although the practice has its own issues. The process of raising fish on a farm raises ethical and hygienic questions, due to the fact that farmed fish normally grow up and live in cramped tanks or ponds their entire lives, and if not well-maintained, such environments can become filled with fish excretions, bacteria, and diseases that can then infect the fish. This issue is not present among wild-caught fish, which reside in large bodies of water or rivers that prevent a similar health and safety risk for people consuming the

(Painting) This also puts this area as a target for fishing, legal or otherwise. The growing human population demands more and more fish, which provides more jobs for fishermen, but not enough fish in the long term. This phenomenon is described by Malthus as the consumer population of humans rises exponentially while the food source either arithmetically or starts to decline, later resulting in the extinction of the food source. From this theory, it should come as no surprise that overfishing is becoming a problem since there are more people on the earth than ever before and eating more and more fish. This impacts the reef by offsetting the different populations of species and disturbs the food chain. The species that are the most popular for fisheries include: turtles, sharks, sea cucumbers, dugongs, and snappers. For example, the number of dugongs on the Great Barrier Reef has declined by more than ninety percent in the last thirty years. (Hutchings) To combat these overwhelming losses, No-Take Areas, or NTAs, have been established, which bans the removal of any marine life in the area. The fish are allowed to come and go as the please, unlike an aquarium, and this even promotes the populations of the surrounding areas because of the surplus of population in these areas. (Brodbeck; Hutchings)

Delgado, C. L., Wada, N., Rosegrant, M. W., Meijer, S., & Ahmed, M. (2003). Fish to 2020: supply and demand in changing global markets. Retrieved from http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pubs/pubs/books/fish2020/oc44.pdf

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) statistics, seventy-four percent of the world’s fisheries are either depleted, over-exploited, or fully exploited. This means that in a few decades the world will be dependent on aquaculture to raise seafood. Aquaculture has been going on for many years now and globally, aquaculture provides more that 50 percent of all seafood produced for human consumption and soon enough that percentage will rise. There are people who are skeptical about the safety of aquaculture. This had led to numerous amounts of articles being published warning people of the dangers of aquaculture and also articles that encourages people to be socially accepting of it.

Favorable policies, loans, and subsidies spawned a rapid rise of big industrial fishing operations, which quickly put charge local boatmen as the world's source of seafood.These large, profit-seeking commercial fleets were extremely aggressive, scouring the world's oceans and developing ever more sophisticated methods and technologies for finding, extracting, and processing their target species. Consumers soon grew accustomed to having access to a wide selection of fish species at affordable

Many breeds of fish are being captured at a faster rate than they can reproduce. Some species such as orange roughy fishing became popular in New Zealand in the 1970’s. Over time, it spread to many countries around the world. In the last 20 years, there has been a decline in catch up to 75%. It is no longer common to see in grocery stores as well as restaurants. The amounts of fish that are captured and distributed around the world are alarming opposed to the rate the fish can multiply.

Sealord is the largest New Zealand based fishing company (Nissui, 2011) and is headquartered in Auckland. It is partially owned by Aotearoa Fisheries Limited and the Japanese based company “Nissui”, with each holding a 50% share.(Aotearoa Fisheries Ltd, 2010) Sealord is part owner of fishing company “Westfleet” based in Greymouth and NIMPL, a mussel farm based in Tauranga. Sealord has alliances in Europe, Asia and the United States (Sealord, 2010).The industry that Sealord operates in is that of the fishing, processing and distribution business. Sealord offers frozen and canned seafood.