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 […]
Tasmanian and South Australian oyster producers work together
First published in The Examiner 27 February 2018. Click here to read the full article. When Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome hit Tasmania in 2016 oyster growers and markets throughout Australia were devastated. The industry suffered great losses, but oyster producers also realised how reliant they were on spat produced in Tasmania. East Coast producer Cameron of Tasmania formed a […]
Victorian abalone pioneers win top export Agribusiness award
First published on The Victorian Connection on 15 February 2018. Click here to read the full story. Since taking out the hotly-contested Agribusiness Award at the 55th annual Australian Export Awards (AEA) and the Governor of Victoria Export Awards (GOVEA) in late 2017, Yumbah Aquaculture – established in 1999 on a secluded beach at Narrawong north-east of Portland in western Victoria – […]
Abalone farming with Tim Rudge
First broadcast on Talking Lifestyle Radio on 12 February 2018. Click here for the full interview. Tim Rudge, Farm Manager of Yumbah Narrawong, talks ‘abalone 101’ with host Ed Phillips, teaching listeners some fast facts about the mighty mollusc.
Yumbah Aquaculture: Farming a pricey seafood treat bags export award
First published on The Weekly Times online on 26 January 2018. Click here to read the full article. THE largest abalone producer in the Southern Hemisphere, which has an onshore farm at Bicheno, has taken home a national agribusiness award. Yumbah Aquaculture, a company with a turnover of $25 million, won its first national […]
Progress on rebuilding oyster industry
First published on Port Lincoln Times online on 29 January 2018. Click here to read full article. There was some good news for local oyster growers last week with the announcement of a $750,000 expansion to the Yumbah oyster hatchery – including a $250,000 boost from the state Regional Development Fund – which will allow the […]
NEW JOBS IN YUMBAH AQUACULTURE PORT LINCOLN OYSTER EXPANSION
$250,000 STATE GOVERNMENT GRANT TO ASSIST $750,000 HATCHERY UPGRADE A joint venture of Yumbah Aquaculture and Cameron of Tasmania to produce and increase oyster spat supplies in South Australia will deliver 12 new jobs in a $750,000 upgrade of its Port Lincoln oyster hatchery. After a devastating outbreak of Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) in […]