Uarah Fisheries

Why choose Uarah Fisheries

• Water quality

  Our water is sourced from pristine bores and the snow-fed Murrumbidgee river catchment itself – the natural habitat of our produced fish species. As research has suggested, this allows us to produce fingerlings and table fish effectively indistinguishable from fish caught in the wild – a unique achievement in the industry. Water quality doesn’t get any better or more natural than that!
  
  

• Quality of fingerlings and brooding stock & timely delivery

  We carefully nurture and maintain our own brooding stock to ensure a steady supply of high quality fingerlings. In turn, we directly source these fingerlings for Murray cod table fish production. Thus, we have full control over our entire production cycle, including quality control of our brooding stock and fingerlings as well as control over the timing of production. This gives us a huge advantage in our ability to ensure that we select the healthiest fingerlings and the highest quality Murray cod table fish for timely delivery.
  
  

• Industry experience

  We are the world’s first commercial large-scale native fish hatchery and the world’s first modern Murray cod farm. Furthermore, our operations team is led by the founding father of both of these industries – Bruce Malcolm. Overall, we have over 40 years of history in native fish breeding and over 25 years of history in Murray cod aquaculture. When it comes to fish husbandry practices, we have the have the longest history in the entire industry.
  
  

• Fish husbandry knowledge and practices

  Since the 1980’s, we have contributed to almost 40 formal studies on the native fish species of the Murray-Darling Basin – significantly more than any other private entity in the industry. Likewise, we have continued to conduct independent research into improving and specialising our husbandry practices for native fish species since our formation in 1977. Indeed, we are often consulted by government and university researchers as to our knowledge of fish behaviour and husbandry practices. Today, our continuing desire to improve our knowledge and techniques has allowed us to accumulate the greatest repository of working knowledge in Australian freshwater fish aquaculture in the world.
  
  

• Specialised infrastructure and equipment

  As the pioneers of large-scale commercial breeding of native fish species and Murray cod aquaculture, we had developed the foundational infrastructure systems required for both industries. Since our commencement of operations, we have continued to redesign, refine and specialise our production systems in line with our evolving practices to constantly improve our efficiency and quality of production. Today, we have the most specialised systems in place for native fish production in the entire industry.
  
  

• Global market potential

  As part of an ongoing investment and sales initiative commenced in 2015, we aim to provide fingerlings, table fish, technical expertise, and even active partnership for the global market. Indeed, we have experienced multilingual technicians working in our global team. Already with a foothold in the Asia-Pacific through two joint venture projects commenced since 2015, we have significant experience in producing, packaging and marketing for an overseas market. Given our ability to ensure quality of fish as well as our extensive technical knowledge and specialised fish husbandry practices and infrastructure, we have much to offer to any global partnership.

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