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23/1/20, 2:45 PM Can barramundi become "the salmon of the tropics"? | The Fish Site Page 1 of 4 https://thefishsite.com/articles/can-barramundi-become-the-salmon-of-the-tropics Can barramundi become "the salmon of the tropics"? The merger of Barramundi Asia (BA) and Allegro Aqua (AA), integrates the efforts and successes of several multi-year R&D programmes undertaken by both companies – including sustainable farming practices, selection of superior traits using genomics and marker-assisted breeding, autogenous vaccines, grow-out, downstream processing and global market reach into one concerted value chain. Barramundi Asia specialises in production and processing, Allegro Aqua in producing an elite strain of Lates calcifer © Barramundi Asia Andreas von Scholten, CEO of Barramundi Asia, says: “Allegro Aqua’s
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Page 1: Can barramundi become the salmon of the tropics? | The ...€¦ · The merger of Barramundi Asia (BA) and Allegro Aqua (AA), integrates the efforts and successes of several multi-year

23/1/20, 2:45 PMCan barramundi become "the salmon of the tropics"? | The Fish Site

Page 1 of 4https://thefishsite.com/articles/can-barramundi-become-the-salmon-of-the-tropics

Can barramundi become "thesalmon of the tropics"?The merger of Barramundi Asia (BA) and Allegro Aqua (AA), integratesthe efforts and successes of several multi-year R&D programmesundertaken by both companies – including sustainable farming practices,selection of superior traits using genomics and marker-assisted breeding,autogenous vaccines, grow-out, downstream processing and globalmarket reach into one concerted value chain.

Barramundi Asia specialises in production and processing, Allegro Aqua in producing an elite strain of

Lates calcifer

© Barramundi Asia

Andreas von Scholten, CEO of Barramundi Asia, says: “Allegro Aqua’s

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expertise in life sciences research and innovation will empowerBarramundi Asia to realise synergies from improved genetics. With thismerger, Barramundi Asia’s quest to make barramundi the ‘salmon of thetropics’ has been further advanced. Our end to end, in-house expertisewill now span barramundi genomics, proprietary autogenous vaccines,Best Aquaculture Practice’s highest 4–star rated nursery-cum-husbandrypractices, best-in-class grow-out capabilities, as well as EU-compliantpost-harvest processing.”

The merger follows BA’s success in scaling up its production anddistribution of its barramundi products globally – both from Singaporeand Australia - while it also has plans to expand in Brunei too. The mergerwill see additional synergies coming from enhanced productivity, reducedmortality and improved feed conversion ratio from using selectedsuperior fingerlings, customised vaccines and operating acrossrecirculating and bio-secure hatchery, nursery and grow-out pens on andnear the Southern Islands of Singapore.

With a commitment towards environmental stewardship and responsiblefarming, the merger is expected to strengthen food fish productiontargets and introduce sustainable practices across diverse geographicalregions, to better meet the food security needs of Singapore and theregion.

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One of Barramundi Asia's farms off the coast of Australia

© Barramundi Asia

BA’s fish stocks are already vaccinated by proprietary autogenousvaccines produced by UVAXX, a subsidiary of BA, which provides customautogenous vaccines and health monitoring support. Combined with AA’selite St John’s sea bass fry and fingerlings, production volumes will beenhanced. As the only farm in Singapore with the highest 4-star BestAquaculture Practices rating, BA’s commitment to sustainability andtraceability has seen their filleted fish, marketed under the trade nameKühlbarra, widely endorsed by multiple Michelin-rated chefs, celebrityrestaurateurs, and premier hotel chains.

AA will now put greater emphasis to continue to work with UVAXX andthe Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) to develop futuregenerations of vaccinated barramundi fingerlings for BA’s nucleus of

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regional farms; as well as other barramundi farms in Singapore and theSoutheast Asian region.

Andrew Kwan, director of Barramundi Asia, says: “What will be trulyindustry transforming is the plan to supply superior vaccinatedbarramundi fingerlings to other farmers in Singapore. This will be coupledwith a guaranteed buy-back programme when the fish are ready forharvest. To this end, farmers who opt-in on this scheme will follow a strictprescribed feeding program and adhere to the international standards ofhusbandry practices adopted by Barramundi Asia because it will be abranded product.”


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