Yumbah Group
An investment grade shellfish aquaculture portfolio managed to unlock the advantages of Australia’s Blue Economy.
Diverse geographic locations within species mitigate risk with each species produced contributing a minimum 20% of total revenue and EBITDA contribution to the group.
Bay Sea Farms
Trading as Yumbah Sea Farms® since being acquired in 2021, Bay Sea Farm mussels are a premium product entirely of Port Phillip Bay provenance from purpose-built hatchery to farm.
Cameron of Tasmania
Acquired in 2021, the finest vertically integrated oyster farms on Tasmania’s East Coast, built on a long-standing family tradition of excellence.
Eyre Peninsula Seafoods
Acquired in 2023, producing Australia’s premium mussel brands, Kinkawooka Shellfish® and Boston Bay Mussels®. Ocean fresh, certified organic, sustainably farmed.
East 33
Acquired in 2024 as Sydney Rock Oyster specialists, pioneering the world’s best oyster culture centred on latitude 33 degrees on Australia’s eastern coast.
Renowned worldwide for tender texture, pearly white meat and sweet, subtle flavour. High in natural vitamins and nutrients.
Frozen whole-in-shell
Quality and convenience, with a preparation guide for shucking and cleaning to ensure the finest taste and yield.
Par-boiled meat
The highest quality abalone, a sustainable luxury superfood. High in natural vitamins and nutrients.
Individually quick frozen (IQF) meat
Individually Quick Frozen Meat is a staple in the foodservice sector and is gaining popularity in retail because IQF Meat can be supplied in bulk or retail-ready packs for all markets.
Cans and retort pouches
Yumbah abalone is sent live to our approved processors, where they are processed into cans and retort pouches according to customer requirements. Minimal chemicals and preservatives are used to ensure that maximum freshness and flavour are retained.
The highest quality abalone, a sustainable luxury superfood. High in natural vitamins and nutrients.
Frozen whole-in-shell
Quality and convenience, with a preparation guide for shucking and cleaning to ensure the finest taste and yield.
Par-boiled meat
The highest quality abalone, a sustainable luxury superfood. High in natural vitamins and nutrients.
Cans and retort pouches
Yumbah abalone is sent live to our approved processors, where they are processed into cans and retort pouches according to customer requirements. Minimal chemicals and preservatives are used to ensure that maximum freshness and flavour are retained.
Live
Modern air freight logistics are creating new opportunities for live seafood every day. The potential to supply live Yumbah Abalone to every corner of the world presents an exciting future for this product line.
Aquavide®
World-first all-natural, lightly-cooked, sweet, delicate ready-to-eat pure abalone meat without preservatives, chemicals, EDTA or sulphites.
Year-round-in-season consistently world-class quality from Yumbah mussel farms around Australia.
Pristine waters
Delicious, premium quality blue mussels grown in cool, clear water at the southern end of Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay.
Sweet, tender, creamy
The texture of Yumbah’s blue mussels has made them a celebrated staple in restaurants and homes throughout Australia and South-East Asia.
Versatile
This truly versatile shellfish is perfect for chowders, soups, pasta sauces, stews and curries, risottos, and paella.
Live, pot ready
Live, pot-ready mussels are washed, debearded, graded, and packed into 1kg bags, to be steamed or boiled in as little as 3 to 5 minutes.
Year-round-in-season consistently world-class quality from Yumbah mussel farms around Australia.
Port Lincoln
We grow Australian blue mussels in sheltered waters at Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula.
Tender, succulent
Kinkawooka mussels are grown in the Mediterranean style to be small, soft and sweet, bursting with a rich, sweet flavour.
Bay-grown
Unlike big oceanic mussels from open water farming, the true quality of the bay grown mussel is in its eating quality.
Year-round-in-season consistently world-class quality from Yumbah mussel farms around Australia.
Best waters
Boston Bay Mussels had humble beginnings in the best mussel waters on the planet: Eyre Peninsula’s Boston Bay.
Ideal location
Our mussels take natural advantage of nutrient rich waters from upwellings in the Great Southern Ocean.
Excellent eating
We ensure the meat-to-shell ratio remains high throughout the season, to always deliver an excellent eating mussel.
Yumbah Pacific Oysters grow naturally in the nutrient-rich, ice-cold waters off Tasmania’s east coast.
Family heritage
Cameron of Tasmania is a third generation East Coast oyster producer, now part of the wider Yumbah group, remaining true to growing great product responsibly.
Shared hatchery
Before Yumbah acquired Cameron of Tasmania, the two companies had long been business partners having established a hatchery joint venture in Port Lincoln, South Australia.
Oyster spat
Yumbah’s Tasmanian oyster spat sells to growers or is further cultured in a grow-out facility at Dunalley. Port Lincoln spat supplies premium sites including Coffin Bay and Streaky Bay.
Sydney Rock Oyster specialists dedicated to pioneering the world's best oyster culture.
NSW speciality
Our Sydney Rock Oysters are sourced the length of the NSW coast to secure the best of each season’s harvest.
The merroir
Like ‘terroir’ for wine, oysters have specific ‘merroir’, unique flavour properties capturing the essence of the coast.
Longitude matters
East 33 oysters reflect diversity of sites and species native to the east coast, along longitude 33 degrees East.
Recognition
Champion Aquaculture Product
Our Kinkawooka Fresh, Live Blue Mussels were named 1 of 38 Champion at the Sydney Royal Fine Food Show.
Gold - Farmed Aquaculture Products
Hosted by the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, Kinkawooka Fresh, Live Blue Mussels received a Gold at the Sydney Royal Fine Food Show.
Gold - Oysters, Mussels and Other Seafood
Hosted by the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania since 1995, we received gold medals for:
- Boston Bay Blue Mussels
- Kinkawooka Blue Mussels
- Greenlip Abalone
- Tiger Abalone
- Boston Bay Blue Mussels
- Kinkawooka Blue Mussels
- Greenlip Abalone
- Tiger Abalone
Best Responsible Seafood Producer
The 2024 recipient of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Best Responsible Seafood Producer Award, recognising the company’s ongoing commitment to sustainable aquaculture farming and investment in renewable energy. Yumbah was also highly commended in the Above and Beyond Award category for progress on its Indigenous Engagement Strategy and Chain of Custody Audit. This is the second time taking out the award after also winning in 2022.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Award
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Award recognises a business that has demonstrated commitment to supporting the welfare of its people through the implementation of workplace wellbeing initiatives and the promotion of a positive culture of health. Yumbah were also nominated as finalists in the Primary producer category.
Business Excellence Award
Honoured to be recognised at the 2023 South Australian Premier’s Food and Beverage Industry Awards, winning the Business Excellence Award alongside Haigh’s Chocolates. We were also pleased to be a finalist in the Innovation in Food or Beverage category.
Above and Beyond Award
Continuing to mark our commitment to sustainability as the national winner of the Above and Beyond Award at the 2023 Sustainable Seafood Awards Australia.
President's Medal
The highest honour at the Sydney Royal competition, we were recognised as a finalist based on financial, social and environmental performance criteria.
Champion Medal
This competition aims to award excellence and drive the Australian aquaculture industry forward by benchmarking produce and awarding Champion medals to the very best of the Gold medal recipients in each class. We were awarded this medal for our Greenlip Abalone Whole in Shell.
Gold Medal
This competition aims to award excellence and drive the Australian aquaculture industry forward by benchmarking produce and awarding Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals to those that receive over a certain benchmark score. We were awarded this medal for our Greenlip Abalone Whole In Shell and Greenlip Abalone Chilled Aquavide Meat.
Silver Medal
This competition aims to award excellence and drive the Australian aquaculture industry forward by benchmarking produce and awarding Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals to those that receive over a certain benchmark score. We were awarded this medal for our Tiger Abalone and Yumbah Sea Chilled Live Australian Blue Mussels
2021 State Winner
The delicious. Produce Award unearth and champion Australia’s best and most innovative primary produce and producers with an emphasis on provenance, seasonality and sustainable production methods. State winners are invited to compete for a medal later in the year.
Gold Medallist
The delicious. Produce Award unearth and champion Australia’s best and most innovative primary produce and producers with an emphasis on provenance, seasonality and sustainable production methods.
Winner Primary Producer Award
The South Australian Premier’s Food and Beverage Primary Producer Award recognises a business that has demonstrated innovation, planning and implementation excellence, leading to successful ongoing exports into international and/or domestic markets. These awards are recognised across the industry as a sign of excellence and innovation.
President's Medal
The highest honour at the Sydney Royal competition, we were recognised as a finalist based on financial, social and environmental performance criteria. We were awarded in 2021 given the event was postponed in 2020 due to COVID.
Gold Medal Winner
This competition aims to award excellence and drive the Australian aquaculture industry forward by benchmarking produce and awarding Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals to those that receive over a certain benchmark score.
Primary Producer Award Winner
The Awards showcase the best of the Victorian seafood industry, its value to the State economy, its professionalism and its commitment to supplying some of the finest seafood in the world to local, national and international markets.
2019 Primary Producer Award Winner
Held every two years Seafood Directions provides an opportunity for stakeholders of the seafood industry come together to showcase the hunters, the farmers, the true supply chain and champion the best of the seafood industry. SD aims to provide a national stage for a unified community that values and celebrates Australian seafood.
Company
The Australian shellfish
aquaculture company
Locations
Windswept seafronts, bays and estuaries of Australia’s southern and eastern coastline. That’s where Yumbah practices its craft.
Helping to build Australia’s Blue Economy by sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, better lives and healthy ocean ecosystems.