Fruit of the Sea (The South African Magazine)
Archive for the ‘ABAGOLD IN THE NEWS’ Category
Aquaculture Rescues Our Abalone (Cape Business News)
Article as appeared on
06 May 2011
ABALONE (perhaps better known as perlemoen), a seafood delicacy unique to the Western Cape coastline, is steadily and aggressively being wiped out by poachers, as is regularly reported.
Easy and lucrative money has turned poaching into a full-scale industry, now removing an estimated 1 000 tons a year from our shorelines. [...]
From Experiment to Empire… (Splash Magazine)
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Abagold Limited has grown from humble beginnings as an experimental hatchery 20 years ago, to a sizable operation incorporating three large abalone farms and a world-class processing plant. Through an entrepreneurial spirit instilled in every employee, the company today is one of the largest marine aquaculture operations in the world and one [...]
R52,5m injection for Western Cape abalone farm (Engineering News Online)
Article as appeared on Engineering News (1 April 2011)
Local private-equity firm Inspired Evolution’s environmental and new energy technology fund has invested R52,5-million in Western Cape-based abalone farm Abagold.
The Hermanus farm is the country’s largest exporter and international competitor in the hatching, rearing, processing and exporting of local abalone.
The financial injection from Inspired Evolution’s R700-million equity [...]
Testing the water (Financial Mail)
Article as appeared on Financial Mail
Stafford Thomas
Thursday, 31 Mar 2011
While poachers risk life and liberty extracting abalone off the shores of Hermanus, the pricey delicacy is being produced in tons not far away by Abagold, an SA aquaculture success story.
Two decades ago this company helped pioneer what has become the world’s largest cultured abalone industry. [...]
