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Little fish, big fish: An impression of the indoor barramundi aquaculture farm at Maryvale. image supplied
VALLEY LURES NEW FISH FARM
THE Latrobe Valley could soon become a barramundi breeding ground with a $30 million federal government grant to usher along an indoor aquaculture farm alongside the Maryvale paper mill. Opal Australian Paper and MainStream Aquaculture plan to build the world’s largest indoor bio-secure aquaculture farm to produce 3700
barramundi a year for the Australian dinner table. The federal funding announcement for Opal is the second within a week, off the back of a $48.2 million federal grant for the Maryvale Energy from Waste project. The $125 million recirculating aquaculture system would be colocated at Maryvale using fresh water sourced directly from the Moondarra
Reservoir, with heat provided from the mill. The project was announced in 2019 after the state government contributed $800,000 towards a $1.24m feasibility study which was completed in 2020. The facility would provide 364 operational jobs with the potential to produce more than 10,000 tonnes of barramundi per year. Opal aquaculture project leader
Craig Bosch said the facility should be ready for construction next year, pending detailed designs and regulatory approvals. Mr Bosch said the indoor facility would be fully-bio secure, and liquid effluent from the tanks would be captured into Maryvale’s wastewater treatment plants. Continued on page 7
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