The inaugural Australasian Aquaculture Awards recognised individuals and businesses that apply innovative and sustainable practices that will have lasting impacts on Australasian aquaculture over the next 10 years.
Presented on 2 May by BAP vice president of development, Peter Redmond, during the ‘Articulture’ event at the Australasian Aquaculture 2012 conference in Melbourne, Australia, the awards rewarded aquaculture excellence in several categories.
Tassal Operations Pty. Ltd. won the Aquaculture Production Award. The largest vertically integrated Atlantic salmon producer in Australia, Tassal provides fish predominantly for the regional market. With sustainability at the core of all operations, it consulted varied stakeholders in preparing its first annual sustainability report - the first released by an Australian aquaculture company.
The Fish Oil Replacement in Australian Aquafeed project won the Aquaculture Science Research Award. Project work by Professor Chris Carter (University of Tasmania), Dr David Francis (Australian Institute of Marine Science), Dr Peter Nichols (CSIRO Food Futures Flagship) and Dr Giovanni Turchini (Deakin University) is helping Australian aquaculturists plan for a more economically and environmentally secure future by reducing dependence on imported fish oil as an ingredient in aquafeed.
Sealite Pty. Ltd. won the Aquaculture Service Provider Award. Sealite, which designs and manufactures marine navigation aids in Somerville, Victoria, Australia, offers the widest range of solar-powered LED lanterns in the marketplace. The company is a technology leader in the development of marine navigation aids.
