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ABFA IPA Using consumer market research to develop a branding strategy

Project number: 2023-207
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $45,000.00
Principal Investigator: Jo-Anne Ruscoe
Organisation: Australian Barramundi Farmers Association (ABFA)
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2024 - 31 Oct 2024
Contact:
FRDC
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Need

Commercial in confidence. To know more about this project please contact FRDC.

Objectives

Commercial in confidence

The bigger blue potential for Asparagopsis: A review of the potential for blue carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and biodiversity credits for the Australian Asparagopsis seaweed industry

Project number: 2023-190
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $120,000.00
Principal Investigator: Robert A. Bell
Organisation: Blueshift Consulting
Project start/end date: 19 Jun 2024 - 30 Dec 2024
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The project will provide a comprehensive and contemporary synthesis of relevant information on C, N& P uptake and B creation potential and existing and potential schemes which could be implemented to provide environmental benefits and commercial opportunities for the nascent industry to develop. It will involve: delivering a detailed review of existing research, theories and proposed policies for C, N&P and B schemes; producing a set of recommendations for regulators regarding scheme(s) implementation and operation; and identify potential environmental, social and economic benefits from successful schemes.

Objectives

1. Undertake a detailed literature review and summary of relevant published and grey literature, industry information and anecdotes on: science of C,N&P and B benefits of seaweed mariculture
credit/trading schemes for C,N&P and B structure and operation, implementation requirements.
2. Develop a recommended policy position for ASSA which can be used by ASSA to advocate and make clear recommendations to government on the potential for the Australian seaweed industry to benefit from the establishment of aligned credit schemes, as well as the potential accreditation of products.
3. Provide outlines of potential credit scheme(s) and implementation, including high-level SWOT analysis and cost-benefit indications.
4. Provide the above objectives and outcomes to ASSA/FRDC which can then be readily developed into regulator and other stakeholder communications outputs and tools (e.g. online formats).

Biorefinery approaches to creating value from Asparagopsis

Project number: 2023-175
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $125,000.00
Principal Investigator: Colin J. Barrow
Organisation: Deakin University Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus
Project start/end date: 9 Jun 2024 - 31 Jan 2025
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The project will provide a 'blueprint' for utilization of Asparogopsis. The created ‘blueprint’ will be based on production and utilization of individual components (e.g. bromoform, bioactive polysaccharides or protein) and their potential markets. The project will also provide a product flow diagram based on a biorefinery approach, that shows processes and equipment required to provide a range of bioproducts from a single Asparogopsis biomass. The 'blueprint' will consist of flow diagrams and tables for production of multiple bioproducts out of a single biomass. The ‘blueprint’ will also contain information on bioprocessing methodology and equipment required for biomanufacturing of multiple bioproducts from Asparogopsis. This project will create ‘blueprints’ for both Asparagopsis taxiformis (tropical) and Asparagopsis armata (temperate) at both gametophyte and tetraporophyte life stages. This information will eventually be added to a Marine Bioproducts database of existing pilot and manufacturing scale bioprocessing capability that could be applied to developing bioproducts based on the 'blueprint.' This database component is not a part of the current project.

Objectives

1. Provide a literature review of potential bioproducts from Asparagopsis, including specific component products and potential markets.
2. Carry out proximate and compositional analysis of four different Asparagopsis materials and compare compositional differences amongst the two species and two life stages.
3. Carry out lab and selected pilot scale biorefinery bioprocessing of the representative Asparagopsis input materials and create a flow-chart including mass balance for each bioproduct output material.
4. Analyses the quality (purity and composition) of each bioproduct fraction produced through laboratory and pilot scale bioprocessing.
5. Convert the bioprocessing information into a 'blueprint' that includes mass balance, fraction composition information, equipment impact on bioproduct quality, which provides a starting bioprocessing strategy for obtaining maximal value from the Asparogopsis input material.
6. Process a ‘blueprint’ report that is available to all stakeholders.
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