Seafood CRC: a guide for use by the shark and other fisheries for preparation of information for consumers.
Bev Cooke has identified an issue facing many small to medium seafood businesses, particularly those in regional Australia, where they want to promote their products but do not have the evidence on which to base their marketing and promotion material. This project will develop a 'How to' resource that these businesses can use to develop their own resources that are based on evidence.
Final report
This project aimed to develop ‘how to’ guide for small to medium businesses to assist in navigating the Food Standards Code as well as a simple promotional brochure framework, using Augusta Wild Caught Fisheries to illustrate how it could be used in practice. This guide aims to help small to medium sized seafood businesses to promote and market their products by:
- Outlining the chapters of the Food Standards Code (the Code) that relate to food sold in Australia
- Providing some information about common microbiological testing
- Including a format of a brochure that businesses could use to promote the health benefits of their products.
Small to medium businesses now have a resource to assist them in navigating through the Australian Food Standards Code. This resource will help them to understand the requirements of food labelling within the Code and includes template to assist in developing a marketing brochure.
Seafood CRC: waste transformation methods for value added products for the catering market
Up to 60% of food waste (including seafood waste) is potentially avoidable. In the case of seafood specifically, at least 50% of the fish is generally lost re filleting and damaged crustacea such as rock lobster, crabs and prawn sbring low return to the producer. Often there is a business cost incurred in removing seafood prodessing waste.
Reducing and transforming seafood processing waste seems essential to add profitability where possible to the Australian seafood industry.
This project will use mechanical separation, reforming by alginate and extrusion technologies from other food industries, to try and develop a range of value added products from seafood processing waste.
Final report
Initially a variety of different seafood processing waste products including picked and seconds Blue Swimmer Crabs, Snapper, Atlantic Salmon and various reef fish frames, Patagonian Toothfish frames, Western Rock Lobster legs, headed and gutted shark, low value prawns and headed and gutted Leatherjacket were transported to the Abacus Fisheries facility in Carnarvon. Mechanical separation of seafood protein from these products was optimised with subsequent data generated on recoveries, and compositional and microbiological food safety analyses. These various forms of separated seafood protein were then used for new product development trials.
During the project, a number of new technologies for seafood protein separation, stabilisation and reforming were developed that can be applied generally to seafood processing waste recovery and new product development.
RAC WA: Investigating critical biological issues for commercial Greenlip Abalone sea ranching in Flinders Bay, Western Australia
Seafood CRC: new opportunities for seafood processing waste
Seafood CRC: new opportunities for underutilised species
Seafood CRC: management, communication and network
This project is aimed at increasing the capacity to provide Australian seafood businesses with
assistance in analysing and improving their post-harvest performance and thus improve their
profitability and ability to meet and respond to their customer's needs.
This need has been articulated in the WAFIC CRC strategic plan and the FRDC 5 year strategic plan, as well as in the Seafood CRC outcomes and objectives.
The need for the project has been demonstrated across the seafood industry by the >10 research projects previously funded by the CRC in the supply chain improvement area and the seafood industry partners committing to the new project (see attached letters of support).
Final report
Seafood CRC: Centre of Excellence Science Seafood & Health (CESSH): Post Harvest Research Program
The seafood industry is facing unprecedented challenges (WAFIC 2020 Strategy, FRDC R&D 2015). The networks established by CESSH have laid a strong foundation to attract national and international investment partners. For the first time, the whole industry along the supply chain and post harvest is working together to achieve outcomes that benefit the WA (and national seafood industry) and the health of the Australian population. It is essential that the industry is able to remain viable and indeed grow, within the constraints of an ever changing economic, technological and food security landscape. There is a need for a continued go-to place that the industry can access to gain support to develop new products, investigate novel and improved means of harvest, reduce production costs and provide evidence of the value of consuming seafood. CESSH needs to build on existing strong capacity areas and establish expertise in areas that are currently not available in WA to service the growing and diverse needs of industry. This could afford industry a point of difference in the provision of world class support to answer research and science questions that impact on growth, quality or profitability in a timely fashion, an essential service for a primary industry.
Final report
Policy Research, Research Advisory Service and Education, Communication and Extension. However, in reviewing the research, many of the outputs were common to several of the programs so will be reported in this way rather than under each sub-program.
SCRC: The role of seafood (and fish) in disease prevention and management (text for an e-book)
The RAC supported the concept of developing a single, consumer oriented publication on the health benefits of seafood. This project will provide text for an e-book to the Australian Seafood CRC (ASCRC) based on the best available evidence associated with seafood consumption and human health.
The ASCRC communications company (Fuller) will lay out and design the e-book (including graphics) as part of the ASCRC 'Super Seafood' branding and packaging of information.