Graham Mair Program Manager Production Innovation 1 Seafood Production Innovation in the CRC: “A tail of tuna, triploid prawns and translocated lobsters”

Outline

Program 1: Themes

Total number of research projects59 Number of Post-docs3.5 PhD students9 Masters students1 Honours students4 Commitments to date$12.6 million Program 1 – Key Numbers

Program 1 – Research Investment 5 Annual expenditure ($) 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 providersBreeding 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 industry Exit 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 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 Future Harvest – Highlights

Accountability

CRC Outputs & Milestones Output New aquaculture systems ● 2.Wild harvest yields ●● 3.Aquaculture productivity ● 4.Wild harvest productivity ● 5.Production for quality ●● MetDelay/ConcernAt risk/failed

Major project outputs CompleteDelay/ concern At risk/ failed 2007/ / /10 350

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) 3 rd 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) 18 Thank you

Seafood CRC project development process 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 19

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 & MilestonesProject Nos New aquaculture systems6 1.1 Pilot systems operational1  1.2 Researchable constraints characterised4  1.3 Researchable constraints addressed1  2. Wild harvest yields4 2.1 Researchable constraints characterised3  2.2 Interventions implemented1  2.3 Impacts quantified0  3. Aquaculture productivity Genetics & breeding strategies developed19  3.2 Breeding programs implemented/improved7  3.3 Disease management approaches8  3.4 Low cost diets developed4  3.5 Impacts quantified0  4. Wild harvest productivity2 4.1 Harvest technology innovations developed2  4.2 Impacts quantified0  5. Production for quality3 5.1 Diets for enhanced product quality developed2  5.2 Management systems for enhanced quality developed1  5.3 Genetic strategies for enhanced quality developed0  Investment ($)

Major project outputs CompleteDelay/ concern At risk/ failed 2007/ / /10350

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