General Info

This page has general information about Aquaculture.

Aquaculture tends to be a 24 hour, seven days a week, 52 weeks of the year activity.

If your airblower packs up in an intensive system the fish die - sometimes in 15 minutes.

To earn a dollar a year from Aquaculture you may have to invest three.

This means to earn $150,000 gross per annum you may have to invest $450,000

Nobody makes money in Aquaculture until the product is sold and paid for.

The nearer the fish get to market size, the closer the fisherman's bed gets to the fish.

South Australian Aquaculture generates $300 million per annum farm gate value and is projected to grow to $650 million by 2010.

South Australia tends to export the majority of its aquaculture production whilst importing the cheaper white skinless boneless fish fillets.