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(SOURCE, Hatchery Feed & Management Vol 8 Issue 2 2020) ‘Ornatas Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned Tasmanian company, was established in 2018 expressly to create the world’s first tropical rock lobster [...]

Yesterday, Ornatas welcomed Senator the Hon Jonathon Duniam, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries and our partners from the University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic [...]

Shane Broad MP Shadow Minister for Primary Industries, Fisheries and Water 24 April 2020 Labor welcomes world-first aquaculture project Labor welcomes rock lobster hatchery Development [...]

Meet Anna Overweter! Anna is our Rock Lobster hatchery manager, based in Tasmania.  Anna oversees the commercialisation of the rock lobster hatchery technology that has been developed at UTAS [...]

The saltwater intake reservoir remediation project is well underway at our Toomulla Beach site and is estimated to be completed by mid-November. The project will make a significant contribution [...]

We proudly launched our hatchery and grow out facility at Toomulla Beach near Townsville yesterday. Joined by the Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk, the Hon Mark Furner Minister for [...]

Meet Simon Davis, our Site Manager in Townsville. He is based at the soon to be launched Toomulla Beach site. Simon has a vast and varied background and is recently new to the aquaculture [...]

A $26 million dollar project has been approved by the ARC, supporting the development of a new lobster aquaculture industry. Ornatas are industry partners in this project, commercialising the [...]

Scott Parkinson, joins as CEO of world’s first lobster hatchery – 100% Tasmanian owned company commercialising the breeding technology for the production of Tropical Rock Lobsters   [...]