Health Management
Fish health is important to maximize performance of stock, and the bottom line in your business. Holistic health management is a balance between the host, the environment and pathogens. When these become imbalanced, populations can suffer from “disease” and poor performance. Proactive health management is key for all business and starts with good stock planning; monitoring systems; and implementation of processes that seek continual improvement in stock management.
Core to our business is providing cost effective solutions for all of our clients. This involves working with your on-ground teams for:
Biosecurity and health management planning
Risk assessments
Water quality management
Disease outbreak investigations
Stock management and husbandry advice
Food safety
Vaccine development and implementation
Waste management plans and green house gas reporting
Wildlife interaction plans
On-site training
Biosecurity
Biosecurity planning starts with facility and operational planning. Biosecurity is a culture that is adopted by a business to reduce the risk of disease entry, transmission and exiting a facility. Risk assessments for a business begins by assessing and quantifying risks of disease incurrence and transmission by:
Water
Fish to fish
Feed
Equipment
People
After identifying possible routes of disease transmission and incurrence, we will work with you to identify reasonable and practical mitigation measures.
cost effective risk management
We believe in practical and cost-effective solutions for businesses, so we will tailor our services and advice to fit your company needs and capacity.
Data management
Businesses collect data. Do we use it effectively to inform decisions? Do we collect and interpret it in a meaningful way? We believe in evidence based decision making and using data to inform decisions to fulfill production and quality metrics. Using data to drive key production decisions is a long-term strategy- give it a kick start in your operation.
Research and Development
Whether it is a bit of bucket-science, or published papers, we can provide advice on trials and assist with grant applications to ensure your business moves forward. Our advice, is for us to learn about your business and what effects the bottom line. Then we can focus the R&D efforts and funds for you to find solutions that will allow your business to grow.
Environment
What is good environmental stewardship?
… It refers to responsible use of inputs and outputs, and protection of the environment in which your business operates through sustainable practices. As farmers, there is a need to preserve the area in which we operate, to enhance production and improve economic sustainability of our businesses. We can help you understand, develop and enact a sustainability strategy. We all have to start somewhere… Let’s start now.
We are able to offer services in:
Environmental compliance
Development of REMP
Environmental evaluations
Environmental due diligence
Certification
As consumers become more aware of source, practices and raw material inputs, certification schemes in farming become increasingly important. Stay ahead of the crowd, and ensure that you select the right certification scheme for your business.
We provide services to get you certified from start to finish including:
Step 1: Pre-audit gap analyses
Step 2: If we find gaps, we help you fill them
Step 3: Support through your audit
Step 4: Post-audit follow up for any non-conformance
Community
A sustainable business requires community engagement. Our team is able to assist you with developing community partnerships, education material, facilitate and participate in exchange to forge connections and assist through any potential concerns or conflicts.
Quality Management Systems
For any business, an effective quality management system (QMS) is necessary as a back-bone for a continuous improvement program. A QMS will allow you to ensure your processes are consistent, and when improvements/changes are made, then results can get tracked. We can assist in developing these internal processes, and refining current systems to improve
operating procedures
Operating procedures are tools that support your business processes. Staff ownership and input is vital to uptake of procedures. We will work with your team to develop procedures that drive consistency in quality outputs.
Continuous improvement
Our team believes in long-term partnerships and a commitment to helping your business continuously improve in its processes and procedures. Key to health management is preventative care, to limit inputs of antibiotics and other chemical treatments and to maximise performance of your stock and production output.