Graham MairProgram Manager

Production Innovation1

Seafood Production Innovation in the CRC:

“A tail of tuna, triploid prawns and translocated

lobsters”

Outline

Program 1: Themes

Finfish - Aquaculture production innovation

Theme leader - Geoff Allan

Breeding for Profit

Theme leader - Nick Robinson

Future HarvestTheme leader - Caleb Gardner

Total number of research projects 59Number of Post-docs 3.5PhD students 9Masters students 1Honours students 4Commitments to date $12.6 million

Program 1 – Key Numbers

Program 1 – Research Investment

Finfish Breeding for Profit Future Harvest0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

2008/92009/10

47%

5

Annu

al expen

dit

ure

($

)

19%

34%

53%

27%

20%

• Increase production• Hold/add value• Increase investment

Finfish Theme - Target Outcomes

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!!

Finfish Theme - Highlights

• Domesticate all stocks

• Genetic improvements

• Promote adoption

• Increase cooperation

Breeding for Profit Theme - Outcomes

• New breeding programs– Yellowtail Kingfish– Barramundi– Banana prawn

• Value adding technology• Communal projects

– MAS, software tools, gene banking, genetic markers

• Nofima exchange project

Breeding for Profit - Highlights

Genetics research in Australia

Pacific oyster (ASI)

CSIRO

Research providers Breeding programs/companies

SRO (SOCO)

Abalone

(TAS)

Abalone main land

Shrimp

Pearl oyster

Barra-mundi

Yellow- tail

Kingfish

Universities

Private consultants

State institutes

Salmon

Risk for industryExit strategies?

Little co-operation Replication

Beche de Mer

Pacific oyster

CSIRO

Sydney rock

oyster

Abalone Tas

Abalone main land

Shrimp Pearl oyster

Barra

Yellow tail

Kingfish

Universities

Private consultants State institutes

Salmon

Plan, communicate, manage & analyze data, coordinate research, provide services (genetic

markers, gene banks, training),

commmercialisation

Beche de Mer

• Fisheries management for economic benefit

• Novel management strategies

• Technical efficiency improvements

Future Harvest – Target outcomes

• Rocklobster translocation– Translocation with minimum cost– Translocated lobsters remain resident– Change colour and grow well– Earnings growths10% 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

Future Harvest – Highlights

CRC outcomes

Theme outcomes

CRC outputs & milestones

Theme outputs

Major project outputs

Individual project outputs

Accountability

CRC Outputs & Milestones

Output 08 09 10 11 12 13 141. New aquaculture systems ●2. Wild harvest yields ● ●3. Aquaculture productivity ●4. Wild harvest productivity ●5. Production for quality ● ●

0 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000 5000000 6000000 7000000 8000000

Investment ($)

Met Delay/Concern At risk/failed

Major project outputs

Complete Delay/concern

At risk/ failed

2007/8 12 1 12008/9 4 3 02009/10 3 5 0

• 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

Summary & Key opportunities

Forthcoming events

• 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)

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Thank you

Seafood CRC project development process

Concept under development•A project idea being developed but not yet ready for approval

Concept for approval•Well developed & costed concept for approval by CRC & FRDC Boards (in blue)

Approved concept•A concept approved for development by both CRC & FRDC Boards

Approved project•A full project that is contracted or for contracting.

CRC RAC CRC RAC*+CRC & FRDC Boards

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

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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

“ 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”.

Progress on CRC Outputs & Milestones

Output & Milestones Project Nos. 08 09 10 11 12 13 14

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

Investment ($)

Major project outputs

Complete Delay/concern

At risk/ failed

2007/8 12 1 12008/9 4 3 02009/10 3 5 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