COZ's Director of Aquaculture has the experience of building and running the largest single prawn farm in the world, over 4,000 hectares of ponds integrated with hatchery, feed mill and processing facilities in Saudi Arabia.
Prefeasibility work has been completed which focused on the initial development of a production module of 10,000 hectares of grow out ponds producing annually over 100,000 tonnes of Black Tiger prawns.
This would make COZ the largest prawn farmer in the world.
Production system is vertically integrated with broodstock, hatchery and processing facilities. Project Sea Dragon has continued to progress in the past 6 months and discussions have continued with potential project partners, with CSIRO already on board.
The fastest growing protein sector for last 30 years - aquaculture is now the third largest protein industry behind poultry and pork.
Why prawn is better than tuna or salmon as a commercial aquaculture venture
Prawns are the most important traded fishery commodity, internationally, by dollar value; accounts for 15% of total value of internationally traded fishery products. In the USA, prawn 33% of all supermarket seafood sales.
COZ Management
Carbon Business (CO2 Australia)
More than 26,400 hectares of forest carbon sinks now established managed on behalf of blue chip Australian and International companies. In operation since 1997 and is the largest provider of dedicated carbon sink plantings in Australasia.
Currently manages landmark commercial carbon offset contracts for Qantas Airways, Macquarie Bank, Woodside Energy, Origin Energy, and Newmont Mining.
CO2 has more recently also built a strong environmental advisory and management services business.
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