Yumbah Aquaculture opens new abalone feed factory in Lonsdale
First published on Adelaide Advertiser 11 September 2018. Click here to read the full article. YUMBAH Aquaculture’s new food manufacturing plant at Lonsdale is helping nourish thousands of hungry abalone in Australia, ready for export across the world. The company will today officially launch its new Heath Rd factory, after spending about $750,000 moving from a smaller, […]
Proposal for $73 million abalone farm at Dutton Way
First published on The Standard 11 September 2018. Click here to read the full article. The company behind plans for a $73 million abalone farm near Portland will host a public information session on Tuesday. Yumbah Aquaculture, the operator of the Narrawong abalone farm, will speak with local community members at a drop in session at the Portland Business Hub between […]
Yumbah Aquaculture improves growth rate among abalone and eyes business growth
First published on Adelaide Advertiser 31 July 2018. Click here to read the full article. YUMBAH Aquaculture is eyeing a lucrative expansion into the Chinese market, after successfully increasing the growth rate of its juvenile abalone by 25 per cent. The company, which produces 700 tonnes of abalone a year, believed the new growth techniques spearheaded on […]
Yumbah Aquaculture on track for record abalone production on KI
First published on The Islander June 2018. Click here to read the full article. Yumbah Aquaculture is reporting that its nursery has produced record tonnage for the year at its abalone farm at Smith Bay on the north coast. KI manager David Connell said the juvenile abalone produced in the spawning facility back in December had spent the last six months in […]
Snail’s pace is fast money in Yumbah’s coastal agribusiness game
First published on Farm Online 24 April 2018. Click here to read the full article. There’s nothing sluggish about market demand or business growth for one of Australia’s newest, and less conventional, agribusiness achievers – sea snail farmer Yumbah Aquaculture. Victorian-based Yumbah has emerged from an idea just 18 years ago to become a four-farm business turning over almost […]
Yumbah Aquaculture wins South Australian produce award
First published on The Islander 18 April 2018. Click here to read the full article. Abalone growing company Yumbah Aquaculture has taken out a “From the Sea” Award in the 2018 South Australian delicious. Produce Awards. One of the company’s four farms is located on Kangaroo Island on the shores of Smith Bay. Nominated by Australia’s leading chefs, the 13th annual delicious. Produce Awards celebrate […]
Delicious awards for Eyre Peninsula produce
First published on Port Lincoln Times 18 April 2018. Click here to read the full article. The quality of Eyre Peninsula produce was highlighted in the 2018 delicious. Produce Awards announced this week with the region’s seafood and pork among the South Australian winners. In the paddock category Boston Bay Smallgoods Company was awarded for its free range pork, and Clean Seas Seafood’s […]
Finding love in the country: Single abalone farmer looking for love
First aired on ABC 19 March 2018. Click here to read the full article. Living in a shack on an abalone farm can be an isolating experience, but it’s often the reality when you work in a primary industry. Luke Thorpe is 28, he lives in a shack at Narrawong Bay in south-west Victoria. Most of […]
A young boy, the ocean and a dream
First published in the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman February 2018. Click here to read the full article. In the small East Gippsland town of Mallacoota, Tim Rudge was one of many young boys who dreamt of being an abalone diver. While fishing was appealing to Tim, the idea of growing something and doing something […]
Boost for spat nursery
First published in the Port Lincoln Times 29 January 2018. Click here to read the full article. A new $750,000 state-of-the-art oyster nursery at Yumbah Hatchery at Point Boston will help supply the state’s oyster growers with a reliable source of spat. The expansion last week received a $250,000 boost from the state government’s Regional Development Fund when Premier Jay […]