Industry Participants
The following participants are key stakeholders in New Zealand’s seafood and aquaculture industry. They are significant aquaculture water space owners, are involved in vertically integrated seafood businesses, and employ scientists to assist in their research programmes to develop new, high quality, added-value products that meet world wide consumer demands, where and when consumers want them.
Aotearoa Seafoods Ltd (ASL)
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Having undertaken significant research to produce hatchery reared mussel and oyster spat, ASL propose to become a tenant of the new shared research and development facility, with planning underway to operate pilot scale research and production from this facility...visit site. |
Sealord Group
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The vision of Horoirangi to unite research and science, working as a team with commerce to create new wealth based on intellectual property, fits with Sealord’s vision to ensure New Zealand is positioned into a globally competitive aquaculture industry...visit site |
Pacifica Seafoods Ltd
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Pacifica Seafoods Ltd believe Horoirangi has the potential to be a significant partnership - led by industry with full research and development support - offering immediate access to shared research facilities, and a place where increased focus on higher value species and products can be considered to meet the demands of a more sophisticated global market...visit site |
Sanford Ltd
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Sanford’s primary business purpose is to meet market demand for high quality, safe and healthy seafood products in an economically sustainable way. Aquaculture plays a growing part in meeting this objective, providing opportunity to develop new technologies that will provide efficiencies and reductions in production costs, improve yields and quality. This includes working with other industry and research partners - an example is the recent establishment of a joint venture with other industry participants involved in Horoirangi for the development of selectively bred mussels... visit site |
New Zealand King Salmon
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New Zealand King Salmon established New Zealand’s first commercially licensed salmon farm and marine farm. Today producing 70% of New Zealand's salmon with an annual turnover of $100 million, New Zealand King Salmon believe Horoirangi can provide the base for other players to invest and grow the specific requirements they need for success. Through beneficial partnerships and ethos, Horoirangi will provide tangible support for New Zealand’s aquaculture growing successes...visit site |
Paua Industry Council Limited (PICL)
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Paua Industry Council Limited strongly support the vision of Horoirangi, combining New Zealand’s leading research and development expertise, and providing critically needed infrastructure for pilot production and enabling the potential establishment of a land-based commercial paua spat production facility...visit site |
