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.

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).

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.

“How to Farm a Better Fish” by Joel K. Bourne, Jr. was published in National Geographic’s June, 2014 edition magazine. This particular article characterizes the differences between the various types of aquaculture, as well as what species to feed and the ingredients that make up the food given. The reporter who composed this editorial informed the reader of the advantages and downfalls of an indoor fish tank vs. an outdoor fish pen. The reporter pointed out the numerous ways an aquacultural company may feed their harvest of fish. He even explained that some fish farms have a whole ecosystem of aquatic animals and plants that they feed instead, to supply the whole food chain with enough nutrients. This is a rather important article because

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

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:

The Interrelationship between consumers and fisheries is a very complex issue. Overfishing and exploitation of Cod remain one of the major

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

However, it is very demanding of energy and electricity. It does not seem very much more effective than regular agriculture. In addition to being demanding of electricity, it is not cheap trying to get started with aquaponics. You need to buy and replace pumps for the water and waste, regulate a radiator to keep the tank of fish at a specific temperature, use grow lights to use aquaponics inside for more control over the system, as well as needing to buy the fish, and the fish food for the fish to eat and produce more waste. At that point, you are sacrificing money to save water.

The potential disadvantages of such a remarkable growth for Australia would be unknown environmental sustainability. Although Australia is a large continent with a population of 22 million, and has a relatively low population density with comparison to some other countries, it also features apparently sever environmental constraints. These constraints include very limited fresh water supplies, especially away from the eastern coastline, limited good soil for agricultural activities and our fragile environments which, in some cases have been badly degraded and have become unusable as a result of agricultural growth and irrigation. Another disadvantage would be he unauthorised migration migration of asylum seekers, this puts the people lives

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.

(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)

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.

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.