Seafood Production Innovation in the
CRC:
“A tail of tuna, triploid
prawns and translocated
lobsters”
Graham Mair
Program Manager
Production Innovation
1
Outline
Program overview
Theme outcomes & highlights
Progress and Accountability
Program 1: Themes
Finfish - Aquaculture production innovation
Theme leader - Geoff Allan
Breeding for Profit
Theme leader - Nick Robinson
Future Harvest
Theme leader - Caleb Gardner
Program 1 – Key Numbers
Total number of research projects
Number of Post-docs
PhD students
Masters students
Honours students
Commitments to date
59
3.5
9
1
4
$12.6 million
Program 1 – Research Investment
3,000,000
47%
2008/9
Annual expenditure ($)
2,500,000
2009/10
34%
2,000,000
53%
1,500,000
19%
1,000,000
27%
20%
500,000
0
Finfish
Breeding for Profit
Future Harvest
5
Finfish Theme - Target Outcomes
• Increase production
• Hold/add value
• Increase investment
Finfish Theme - Highlights
Finfish Theme - Highlights
• Yellowtail Kingfish
– A suite of projects delivering outputs over the next 2 years
• Prawn floc technology
– Diatom blooms the key
• Aquaculture Innovation Hub
– Promote collaboration
– Includes finfish & shellfish hatchery networks
• Cobia consortium
– It’s the market – stupid!!
Breeding for Profit Theme - Outcomes
• Domesticate all stocks
• Genetic improvements
• Promote adoption
• Increase cooperation
Breeding for Profit - Highlights
• New breeding programs
– Yellowtail Kingfish
– Barramundi
– Banana prawn
• Value adding technology
• Communal projects
– MAS, software tools, gene banking, genetic
markers
• Nofima exchange project
Genetics research in Australia
Research providers
CSIRO
CSIRO
Breeding programs/companies
Abalone
Abalone
Tas
Salmon
main
Abalone
Salmon
land
(TAS)
Pacific
Universities
oyster
Private
Sydney
consultants
rock
oyster
State institutes
Private
Shrimp
consultants
Plan, communicate,
Pacific
manage & analyze
oyster
data, coordinate
(ASI)
research, provide
services (genetic
markers, gene banks,
SRO
training),
(SOCO)
commmercialisation
Pearl
Yellow
oyster
tail
Kingfish
Barra
Shrimp
Beche
Beche
de Mer
de Mer
Pearl
oyster
Abalone
Universities
main
land
Barramundi
Yellowtail
Kingfish
Risk for industry
State institutes
Exit strategies?
Little co-operation
Replication
Future Harvest – Target outcomes
• Fisheries management
for economic benefit
• Novel management
strategies
• Technical efficiency
improvements
Future Harvest – Highlights
• Rocklobster translocation
–
–
–
–
Translocation with minimum cost
Translocated lobsters remain resident
Change colour and grow well
Earnings growths10% pa (worth
$560 million over 15 years)
– Bioeconomic model being used for
management decisions for  profit
– 9 of 12 recommendations endorsed
• Slow progress on new projects
Accountability
CRC
outcomes
Theme
outcomes
CRC outputs &
milestones
Theme outputs
Major project outputs
Individual project outputs
CRC Outputs & Milestones
Output
08 09 10 11 12 13 14
1.
New aquaculture systems
2.
Wild harvest yields
3.
Aquaculture productivity
4.
Wild harvest productivity
5.
Production for quality
●
●
●
●
●
●
0
2000000
●
4000000
Investment ($)
Met
Delay/Concern
At risk/failed
6000000
8000000
Major project outputs
Complete Delay/
concern
2007/8
2008/9
2009/10
12
4
3
1
3
5
At risk/
failed
1
0
0
Summary & Key opportunities
• Well underway
• Good industry/researcher involvement & collaboration
• Almost on track for CRC Outputs & Milestones
• Significant outputs for end-users
• Future Harvest slower than expected
• Education and training (esp. BFP & FH)
• 3rd year review
– Hitting milestones & delivering outputs
– Planning for next generation projects
Forthcoming events
Thank you
• Tuna propagation symposium (Adelaide Dec 1-2)
• Aquaculture Innovation Hub (Adelaide Dec 2-3)
• CRC Program Forum (Adelaide – Feb 10/11)
• Australasian Aquaculture 2010 (Hobart – May 24-26)
18
Seafood CRC project
development process
CRC RAC
Concept
under
development
• A project idea
being developed
but not yet
ready for
approval
CRC & FRDC Boards
CRC RAC*+
Concept for
approval
Approved
concept
Approved
project
• Well developed
& costed
concept for
approval by CRC
& FRDC Boards
(in blue)
• A concept
approved for
development by
both CRC &
FRDC Boards
• A full project
that is
contracted or for
contracting.
Note:
*Both CRC and FRDC Boards reserve the right to approve full project proposals
+Letters of approval are sent out only when the RAC approves final full project proposals
19
“ This work formed part of a project of the Australian Seafood
Cooperative Research Centre, and received funds from the
Australian Government’s CRCs Programme, the Fisheries R&D
Corporation and other CRC Participants”.
AND the Abalone Council of Australia, Australian Barramundi Farmers Association, Australian
Council of Prawn Fisheries, Department of Western Australia, the Tasmanian Salmonid Growers
Association, Clear Water Marine Farms, CSIRO, Marine Scale Pilchard Fishermen’s Association,
Southland Fish Supplies and the Southern Adelaide Health Service
Progress on CRC Outputs & Milestones
Output & Milestones
Project Nos.
1. New aquaculture systems
6
1.1 Pilot systems operational
1
1.2 Researchable constraints characterised
4
1.3 Researchable constraints addressed
1
2. Wild harvest yields
4
2.1 Researchable constraints characterised
3
2.2 Interventions implemented
1
2.3 Impacts quantified
0
3. Aquaculture productivity
38
3.1 Genetics & breeding strategies developed
19
3.2 Breeding programs implemented/improved
7
3.3 Disease management approaches
8
3.4 Low cost diets developed
4
3.5 Impacts quantified
0
4. Wild harvest productivity
2
4.1 Harvest technology innovations developed
2
4.2 Impacts quantified
0
5. Production for quality
3
5.1 Diets for enhanced product quality developed
2
5.2 Management systems for enhanced quality developed
1
5.3 Genetic strategies for enhanced quality developed
0
08
09
10
11
12
13


















Investment ($)
14
Major project outputs
Complete Delay/
concern
2007/8
2008/9
2009/10
12
4
3
1
3
5
At risk/
failed
1
0
0
Finfish Theme - highlights
• SBT propagation
– >30 million eggs
– Survival beyond 200 days
– Alternative approaches to breeding
– Extent of collaboration
• Yellowtail Kingfish
– A suite of projects dealing with major issues
– Outputs will be delivered over next 2 years