Creative ways to increase seafood sales, boost profits and broaden the popularity of your bistro menu -- the menu doesn't need to be stock on fish & chips or salmon!
2. Presentation Content
• About Blue Harvest
• Global Aquaculture
• Aquaculture in Australia
• Our clients farms
• Advantages of aquaculture
• Not all fish are the same!
• Empowering the chef!
• Some menu ideas
3. About Blue Harvest
Blue Harvest is an Australian specialist seafood sales
and marketing agency, our clients are “best in class”
catchers, growers and processors.
4. Global Aquaculture
• Aquaculture continues to
be the fastest growing
animal food-producing
sector in the world!
• Aquaculture represented
47 percent of global food
fish production in 2010!
Source: FAO
5. In 2011, world farmed fish production topped beef production
6. Aquaculture in Australia
1. Salmonoids
2. Bluefin Tuna (ranching)
3. Oysters
4. Pearls
5. Prawns
6. Barramundi
7. Abalone
8. Mussels
9. Other i.e. Silver Perch,
yabbies etc
7. Our Clients
• Farmed Prawns
• Crystal Bay Prawns
• Gold Coast Tiger Prawns
• Mission Beach Prawns
• Yamba Prawns
• Baby Saltwater Barramundi
• Blue Mussels
• Oysters - NEW
• Antarctic King Crabs
8. About Prawn Farming
• Production Cycle
• Harvest – Post Harvest
• Domestication
• Environmental
• Inputs
• Outputs
9. About Barramundi Farming
• Production Cycle
• Harvest – Post Harvest
• Farming Methods
• Sea cage
• Ponds
• Recirculation
• Environmental
10. Blue Mussels
• Production Cycle
• Catch spat June - September 2013
• Seed out January – May 2014
• Harvest June 2014 onwards
Start cycle again……….
• Harvest – Post Harvest
• Meat Condition Index
11. Blue Mussels – Continued
SA Seafoods have more leases
under production in the Spencer
Gulf than any other farm.
A large lease area (208 hectares)
gives SA Seafoods more options to
harvest mussels with a
consistently high Meat Condition
Index (MCI).
Denotes Boston Bay Mussel Leases
Denotes Other Farms mussel leases
Port
Lincoln
14. Barramundi
• Fresh versus Frozen
• Wild caught versus Farmed
• Imported versus Australian
• Grown in Saltwater, Brackish or Freshwater
• Farmed fish can be grown in ponds, sea
cages or recirculating systems
• Stress during harvest
• Post Harvest Handling – spiked, bleed, ice
slurry etc
• Texture
• Flavour
• Shelf life
• Fillet recovery
• Appearance
15. Empowering the chef!
• Know more about the
fish you are buying
• Demand quality from
your supplier
• Brand – your assurance
that you are getting the
product you ask for!
16. Some Ideas – Australian Aquaculture
• Steamed Blue Mussels
• Whole baby saltwater
barramundi
• Bucket of cooked
prawns
• Whole raw prawn on the
BBQ
• Steamed Oyster