Tasmania, home of the world’s largest wild abalone fishery, next week hosts the International Abalone Symposium, centred on a marine snail with gourmet qualities considered a delicacy around the world.
The International Abalone Symposium returns after 18 years to Tasmania. This year’s Symposium, in Hobart, has attracted more than 250 research scientists, fisheries managers, abalone fishers and farmers, and students.
The symposium is hosted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania, and Tasmanian State Government. Its focus is on advances in the management, production, conservation and biology of abalone.
To be held from May 7-10 at Hobart’s Grand Chancellor Hotel, it will provide Australian scientists with the opportunity to showcase their research, Australian aquaculture production and wild harvest technologies.
Scientists, fishers and farmers will discuss the eating quality of abalone meat, use of new technologies to help manage wild stocks, breeding programs, developing healthy food for abalone, home ranging behaviour of wild animals, managing stress levels in abalone, re-seeding of reefs and enhancing of habitats suitable for abalone.
Funding support for Symposium comes from the Australian Government Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Skretting and the Korea Federation of Abalone Industry Association.
The International Abalone Society is an international, high-level non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting research on abalone; facilitate the distribution of information on abalone; and promote cooperation between abalone researchers and members of the abalone industry.
CSIRO
