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Broken Bay Pearl Farm to establish seafood processing facility
BROKEN BAY PEARL Farm is set to establish a seafood processing facility adjacent to their Shellar Door at Mooney Mooney.
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This follows the company receiving a grant of $100,000 from the Regional Job Creation Fund last year.
Broken Bay Pearl Farm Sales Manager Tamika Michie said that Akoya Oyster meat, while much different to the Sydney Rock Oyster, is a new seafood product that the company wants to introduce to the market. “It is versatile and has a particular taste that our studies have shown could be well received at the top end of the oyster market,” she said.
Broken Bay Pearls have come a long way since being established by Brisbane Water oyster farmers Ian and Rose Crisp in 2003.
During the following years the Crisps learned the techniques of pearl and pearl oyster production using the Akoya pearl oyster.
At the time Mr Crisp said that the pristine waters of Brisbane Water and Broken Bay was the perfect environment to grow the Akoya oyster which is native to the East Coast of Australia.
Mr Crisp said that the Akoya pearl is naturally lustrous and uniquely pure.
By 2010 Akoya pearls were being marketed through one of Sydney’s leading jewelers and the Crisp’s pearl farming venture was proving to be successful.
So successful was the Broken Bay Pearl Farm that the eye of one of Australia’s most successful and long established pearl farmers, James Brown from Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm in Broome Western Australia, and in 2017 the Crisps entered an exciting partnership with James Brown and Pearls of Australia was born.
Meanwhile the operation in Brisbane Water had been relocated to Mooney Mooney.
Much earlier, in 2007 the pearling industry in and around Broome had collapsed following the Global Financial Crisis, with Cygnet Bay being one of the few survivors.
Their survival was the result of Mr Brown’s decision to turn pearl oyster farming into a tourist attraction which now draws thousand of visitors each year to Broome.
Broken Bay Pearl Farm Shellar Door at Mooney Mooney. NSW Sales Manager Kate Trotter with WA Sales Manager Tamika Michie
Akoya Oyster showing meat and pearl
With Mooney Mooney being an obvious location for a tourist operation to be linked to pearl farming the new venture with a ‘Shellar Door’ where high grade pearl jewelry is created in-house and sold exclusively from this location.
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