NSW Aquaculture Association Inc.

Welcome to the NSW Aquaculture Association website. This website is designed to aid members and other interested parties with their aquaculture demands and enquiries. The NSWAA is a peak industry body that represents land-based aquaculture farmers in NSW. Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, about 50% of all seafood consumed worldwide is produced by aquaculture. When you add the fact that global production from the wild is relatively static with an increased pressure on global resources each year and demand for seafood continues to rise each year it's easy to see that the extra demand must be met by aquacultured product.

NSW probably has the most rules and regulations of any state for aquaculture but that just ensures that the aquaculture produce from NSW is the cleanest, greenest, safest seafood that money can buy. We don't have the disease and population problems that overseas farms suffer from, our farms are designed and regulated for best practice to minimise any problems and ensure the environment of NSW is protected and not affected by our aquaculture activities. Being regulated ensures that the aquacultured fish and yabbies produced in NSW are not only environmentally friendly produced but it is produced as food safely for the farmer and the consumer. NSW aquacultured product from the pond to the plate is grown and sold with the health of the consumer in mind so you as a consumer can be assured its not only safe to eat but it is some of the cleanest, greenest, safest and healthiest seafood that money can buy.

If you are into or are thinking of getting into aquaculture then join the NSWAA to keep informed, if you are looking to buy aquaculture products then buy it from a member of the Association, these members are the ones working together towards the betterment of the industry in NSW and the ones that are doing it right.

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Objectives of NSW Aquaculture Association

1. Assist and promote the interests of aquaculturalists throughout Australia and especially those in NSW.
2. Facilitate the dissemination of information between aquaculturalists and to keep them abreast of the latest developments in research and production techniques, etc.
3. Promote industry research and development priorities in areas critical to production, survival, purging and packaging, etc.
4. Liaise with government authorities to ensure a representative of the NSW Aquaculture Association is a member of every board, committee and advisory council to represent Association members' interests and seek government assistance where required.
5. Represent the commercial interests of aquaculturalists and present a united front to voice concerns to government authorities where required.
6. To represent the interests of member aquaculturalists first and foremost. We are not a government policy enforcement agent. We will not volunteer information on activities of any member to any government department.
7. Promote the development of an environmentally responsible, sustainable and commercially viable aquaculture industry in NSW.
8. Act on members behalf to intervene with government agencies to assist with their personal endeavours.
9. Assist members with their needs for information - if we cannot answer their queries, direct them to where answers can be found.

These are the original objectives that the 150 founding members formulated to represent their ideas of what the association should be doing for them and as an association to represent them. Though over the years the members have changed with some leaving the industry and others entering we as an association have adhered to our original charter and the objectives remain the same. The association is there to help members with their individual endeavours, we work with government but will not volunteer any information about our members. We all work together towards the betterment of the industry as a whole so we will work with members to overcome any problems together. This industry is a small one, with everyone knowing large numbers of others in the industry, what one individual does can have huge ramifications for all of us, we all need to work together and with the regulatory bodies to ensure the industry prospers into the future and the NSW AA offers the platform for this to occur.

One of the greatest challenges that NSW offers is the tyranny of distance, NSW is a huge state with members spread across this vast area. Communication is a priority of the NSW AA and regular Newsletters and the internet is our method of disseminating information. This is our main communication method and allows us to contact all our members at the push of a button. Newsletters keep all members informed of what's happening in the papers, magazines and TV across the state, what's happening to other members, what's happening with government and generally just what's happening. Newsletters only go to members so if you want to keep your finger on the pulse of the industry and see what’s happening around you then Join Now

Robert B McCormack
President 2009