Seaweed further enhances Aussie prawn farms' global environmental lead

摘要

For more than 20 years the Australian prawn farming has been at the global forefront of environmental performance, with progressive advances in farm management and the strictest regulations in the world. New technology is lifting the performance bar even higher with one farm growing high guality edible seaweed as an integral component of an innovative environmental management system. The state of the art management system is enabling the farm to optimise their production of high quality seafood withno adverse impacts on the adjacent marine ecosystem. North Queensland prawn farmer Pacific Reef Fisheries (Australia) Pty Ltd (PRF) has featured in several editions of AA over the past decade, particularly with regard to their excellent environmental performance (the last was the Spring '10 issue, Vol 24.3). Now they have partnered with MBD Energy Ltd (MDB) and James Cook University (JCU) to develop another world-first technology that allows the effluent water to be processed and reused on the farm.