A simple request from community – to grow local oysters in Northern Territory waters – is moving closer to commercial reality after more than a decade of research, innovation and collaboration. On Sunday, 19 July, the Darwin Aquaculture Centre (DAC), NT Fisheries, proudly joined Mantiyupwi Oyster Farm and Stotts Oyster [...]
Indigenous communities across the Northern Territory have been working in collaboration with the Northern Territory Government to establish a commercially viable oyster farming industry built around native species and local opportunity. The first commercial sales of Northern Territory farmed blacklip rock oysters are expected soon, following years of research and [...]
Northern Australian-grown Black Lip Rock Oysters could be on the menu by next Christmas, thanks to a Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia-funded project, which has officially wrapped up in northern Western Australia. Around 700,000 oysters have been transferred from the CRCNA and the Western Australia Department of Primary Industries [...]
Northern Australia officially has its own “brand” of Tropical Rock Oysters – with the native Blacklip Rock Oyster (Saccostrea echinata) formally added to the Australian fish name database. The application to the Australian Fish Names Committee was made by researchers from the Northern Territory Government’s Darwin Aquaculture Centre (DAC) and [...]
A Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia’s (CRCNA) aspirations to establish a commercial Tropical Rock Oyster industry in Northern Australia has taken a step forward today, with more than 30,000 hatchery-grown spat (juvenile oysters) transferred to new trial sites off the Karratha coast, in northern Western Australia. Project partners, [...]
Over the past two months, Fisheries Division staff from the NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade, have travelled to Groote Eylandt and South Goulburn Island to assist with the construction of oyster trial longlines and data collection for the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) tropical oyster [...]
A Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project team looking to grow the north’s Tropical Rock Oyster industry have successfully bred a new Black Lip Rock Oyster for the first time at the Western Australian government’s Hillarys marine shellfish hatchery. It’s an important achievement for the team of [...]
A new project looking to grow northern Australia’s Tropical Rock Oyster industry has been unveiled at the Darwin Aquaculture Centre today. Hon. Sen. Matt Canavan looking at oyster larvae at the Darwin Aquaculture Centre. The 3-year, $4.1 million project brings together a consortium of project participants including the Northern Territory [...]