Seafarm’s Project Sea Dragon is more than a shrimp farm. It is the building of an industry: broodstock facilities, hatcheries, grow-out ponds, processing, logistics and sales channels all established across 10,000 hectares of Australia’s remote northern coast. But the ambitious project, the makings of which began in 2012, is starting to come together, with the first stocking now set for the end of 2021.
During this first stage – with broodstock, hatchery and the first grow-out farms established – Project Sea Dragon will be producing 15,000 metric tons a year of premium-quality black tiger shrimp, with plans in place for an eventual churn of an incredible 150,000 metric tons per year, almost a quarter of the current annual production of China, the world’s largest vannamei producer.
