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AAGA IPA: Abalone Market Research - Grow the Market

Project number: 2024-088
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $145,000.00
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Savva
Organisation: Australian Abalone Growers Association Inc (AAGA)
Project start/end date: 10 Apr 2025 - 20 Nov 2025
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Market Opportunities
Aquaculture
SPECIES
Blacklip Abalone
Greenlip Abalone

Need

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

Objectives

Commercial in confidence

Management of Australian Abalone Growers Association's RD&E portfolio, 2022-2026

Project number: 2022-134
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $240,000.00
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Savva
Organisation: Australian Abalone Growers Association Inc (AAGA)
Project start/end date: 9 Mar 2023 - 30 Apr 2026
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Aquaculture
SPECIES
Abalone

Need

The AAGA Strategic plan recognises the opportunities from integration of scientific disciples. The functions described in this application are needed to plan and manage AAGA's RD&E portfolio in concert with our FRDC IPA 2021-2026 to ensure that research continues to provide results that address key priority areas of the industry. Specifically the functions needed to achieve this are:

A: Develop collaborations with R&D agencies to address the goals of AAGA's Strategic Plan:
1. Farm Innovation: Including development and adoption of new technologies such as AI, ICT and robotics. Refinement of techniques and procedures to drive farm efficiencies.
2. Genetics: Establishing a national genetics/breeding program to enhance growth and resilience of stocks linked to nutrition and warming water temperatures due to climate change.
3. Nutrition: Linked to genetics (above) and recognising and developing novel feed sources that may increase growth and resilience (including summer mortality) and improve sustainability.
4. Animal Health and Biosecurity: Including better understanding and mitigation of summer mortality. Integrating health and management practices. Vigilance through active disease/health surveillance. Benchmarking health and productivity.
5. Sustainable Farming: Investigating interactions between water quality, stocking density, growth, yield and husbandry refinements including humane handling practices. Planning adaption to the low carbon economy, improving energy efficiency and progression towards carbon neutrality. Benchmarking socio-economics.
6. Human Capacity: Including improved staff training and links to farm innovations to improve WH&S, staff satisfaction and retention. Providing opportunities for students and researchers.
7. Market Development: Precompetitive generic marketing, participation in trade shows, potential for greater domestic accessibility to our products.
8. Governance: Ensuring AAGA's service capacity to industry via our new constitution (2020) and adequate funding of the AAGA EO for good governance.

B: Ensure rapid dissemination, extension and uptake of the outcomes of R&D to AAGA members.

C: Identify alternative sources of funding that can be accessed through co-investment in additional RD&E projects to achieve greater outcomes for our industry.

Objectives

1. Efficient Management of AAGA's FRDC IPA
2. Effective Communication (Extension) of R&D results
3. Adoption of resulting technologies on farms

Management of Australian Abalone Growers Association's RD&E portfolio

Project number: 2016-415
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $190,000.00
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Savva
Organisation: Australian Abalone Growers Association Inc (AAGA)
Project start/end date: 30 Oct 2016 - 29 Jun 2020
Contact:
FRDC
SPECIES
Tropical Abalone
Blacklip Abalone
Roe's Abalone
Greenlip Abalone
Brownlip Abalone

Need

FRDC has recently devolved responsibility for strategic priorities and direction to industry. Consequently the functions described in this application are needed to plan and manage AAGA's RD&E portfolio in partnership with FRDC to ensure that research continues to provide results that address
key priority areas of the industry. Specifically the functions needed to achieve this are:

a) Develop collaborations with R&D agencies to assist development of RD&E projects needed to address issues described in the AAGA Strategic Plan 2015-2020, including:
(i) Sustainable development of the industry;
(ii) Maintaining and enhancing biosecurity and abalone health;
(iii) An emphasis on abalone health via nutrition;
(iv) Increases in production efficiency and profitability;
(v) Enhanced market development of quality abalone products;
(vi) Improved human capacity, safety and training

b) Ensure effective and rapid dissemination, extension and uptake of the outcomes of R&D to AAGA members.

c) Identify alternative sources of funding that can be accessed through co-investment in additional RD&E projects to achieve greater outcomes for the farmed abalone industry.

Objectives

1. Coordinate development of RD&E projects in line with AAGA/FRDC IPA.
2. Publish an annual industry report and distribute to AAGA members
3. Manage communications with AAGA members.
4. Organise an annual industry workshop and other special topic workshops as required.
5. Review and update the AAGA RD&E strategic plan.
6. Promote the industry's viability and sustainability and social licence to operate.

Final report

Author: Nicholas Savva
Final Report • 2021-01-01 • 1.11 MB
2016-415-DLD.pdf

Summary

This report describes the outcomes from a five-year Industry Partnership Agreement (IPA) between Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and the Australian Abalone Gowers Association (AAGA). The project was led by AAGA Executive Officer, Nicholas Savva with assistance from members of the AAGA management committee. The primary objective of the IPA was to coordinate R&D related to abalone farming funded through FRDC and other sources. To ensure involvement of members in the development and running of that R&D. And extension to members for uptake of research outcomes.
During the five years 15 abalone and related R&D projects were conducted with $853,000 contributed via the IPA and considerably more from research institutions and in kind from farms and other participants including feed manufacturers. Projects supported by the IPA were consistent with the priorities in the AAGA Strategic Plan 2015-2020. Ten of the 15 projects are now complete, or near completion. All the projects have delivered benefits to the industry.
Nutrition has long been and will continue to be a focus for AAGA R&D.
Knowledge of abalone genetics including the genetic pool on farms and the nature of abalone responses to AVG and to higher summer water temperatures will aid selective breeding.
Improvements to biosecurity and vigilant surveillance has resulted in robust on farm biosecurity plans and no disease outbreaks on farms.
During this project AAGA developed a new strategic plan that will guide research in a new IPA to cover the period from 2020 – 2025 was completed. Significant outcomes from the new Strategic Plan include:
• The need for stronger links between nutrition and genetic selection especially in response to warming waters.
• The need to develop and embrace AI and mechanisation to improve labour efficiencies and invest in our labour force to provide improved quality employment opportunities.
• Recognition that additional funding for R&D will need to be sourced.

SCRC: IB: Study tour of South Korea

Project number: 2012-748
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Dan Machin
Organisation: Australian Abalone Growers Association Inc (AAGA)
Project start/end date: 27 Aug 2012 - 29 Aug 2012
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Training
Stakeholder
Marketing
Community
Co-Management

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9756044-3-4
Author: Nick Elliott
Final Report • 2012-09-05 • 9.44 MB
2012-748-DLD.pdf

Summary

Korea has long history in abalone aquaculture and is currently the second largest producer of abalone, after China. Given this history, the Australian abalone industry considers it would benefit from building business and institutional relations with the Korean abalone industry and government.

AAGA and the Korean Federation of Abalone Industry Association developed and executed a study tour itinerary that involved site visits and forums. The delegation included five AAGA members and Drs Nick Elliot (CSIRO) and Graham Mair (Seafood Cooperative Research Centre). The study tour built on established relationships and enabled all parties to share knowledge and experience in abalone aquaculture, and included visits to Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market, an abalone nursery in Jindo, abalone sea-based growout farm sites within the Special Abalone Zone of Wando, and on-shore flounder farms and potential abalone farm sites on Jeju Island.

Australian abalone industry emergency disease response awareness workshop

Project number: 2012-031
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $15,000.00
Principal Investigator: Dan Machin
Organisation: Australian Abalone Growers Association Inc (AAGA)
Project start/end date: 30 Jan 2012 - 29 Jun 2012
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workshop
Policy
Disease
Biosecurity
Awareness

Need

Emergency aquatic animal responses often involve complex, multi-lateral and inter-jurisdictional arrangements, and also can have specific trade and market access responsibilities that need to managed. Part of maintaining Australia's aquatic biosecurity track record is to improve the awareness and preparedness within specific industry sectors. Since 2005 there has been a number of abalone disease outbreaks, which may have potential trade and market access issues. It is critical that the industry nationally take stock and ensure it captures the wealth of lessons that have been learnt, and gain a common understanding of established procedures and responsibilities, especially how government, processing, commercial fishing and farms can best respond to any future outbreaks.

Objectives

1. Increase industry awareness of established governance arrangements, roles, responsibilities, procedures and resources for aquatic animal disease responses—at the industry, state and national level
2. Identify any weaknesses in current arrangements that may constitute a threat to industry, inparticular productivity improvement, trade and market access
and identify priority actions to mitigate those threats
3. Raise awareness of the potential benefits of formal joint industry / government aquatic animal disease response arrangements.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-646-59571-9
Author: Dan Machin
Final Report • 2012-05-01 • 18.74 MB
2012-031-DLD.pdf
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