Seafood workshop – report and links

After eight years with Cawthron, and three years as their Group Manager Aquaculture and Biotechnology, Danette Olsen is about to join Plant and Food’s newly established Seafood Technologies Group as their General Manager of Science. We asked Danette to put [...]

About 200 of our best scientific, engineering and technology undergraduate students will get a taste of working for innovative high-tech businesses this summer, announced Science and Innovation Minister Wayne Mapp yesterday. “We are investing $1.28 million so businesses can hire [...]

Mt Cook Alpine Salmon Ltd was the sole South Island winner in the 2011 New Zealand Marketing Awards, winning the prestigious Transformational Marketing Award. “Transformational marketing is about changing a whole marketing category, and transforming your business at the same [...]

The Government is investing $2.3 million in waste minimisation projects in Northland that will create jobs and boost the local economy, Environment Minister Nick Smith has announced. Enterprise Northland is to receive $2.1 million from the Waste Minimisation Fund towards [...]

“Are you looking at the stars?” Although written by Geoff Matthews in a song about lost love, these lyrics also sum up the author’s vision for the aquaculture sector. Better known within the sector as Mt Cook Alpine Salmon CEO, [...]

Ten metres deep off the coast of the Philippines, Sunil Kadri knew he was going to die. While diving for a Swiss aid agency, dynamite fishermen mistook his bubbles for a sign of fish and dropped explosives onto him. Boom! [...]

It’s just like squid, only crunchy – with a bit that tastes like an oyster. A unique blend of characteristics that makes geoduck a delicacy across Asia, could also see the funny-looking shellfish become the next big earner for New [...]

Talking to mussels won’t help you breed better-quality products. But listening to them might. Cawthron shellfish physiologist Norman Ragg has devised a number of innovative techniques that allow him to communicate with mussels as part of the Institute’s selective breeding [...]

AJ Hu knows what it takes to make it in China. As a co-founder of The JLJ Group, AJ has helped hundreds of companies succeed in the highly attractive China market and he has some powerful advice for New Zealand’s [...]

It’s 1980 and John Croft is readying himself to appear on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Nearing the end of a American-wide tour promoting McFarlane’s Greenshell mussel powder, Mr Croft was set to join an illustrious list of guests, [...]