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Last month, Ornatas were pleased to host a visit from several of Queensland’s state government departments at our Toomulla Beach Aquaculture Facility. On the 15th of September representatives [...]

The team at Ornatas are excitedly awaiting the arrival of our Tropical Rock Lobster brood stock, to kick off the first phase of growing Tropical Rock Lobster in the Toomulla Hatchery. The arrival [...]

(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 [...]