Budj Bim Aquaculture Site Visit

Immersion Group was extremely proud to lead a delegation with Nissui Corporation to visit the Budj Bim aquaculture site in Victoria. The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is located in the traditional Country of the Gunditjmara Aboriginal people in south-eastern Australia near Portland. Here, the Gunditjmara have been operating the world's most extensive and oldest aquaculture system for short-finned eels. The delegation learnt how rocks on an ancient lava flow were engineered and maintained to create channels and holding ponds for eels as the they travel out the sea. More incredible still, the site also played host to several hundred permanent stone dwellings that were built to service the aquaculture enterprise.

This meeting was truly memorable as it brought together the world’s oldest aquaculture operators alongside the world’s largest aquaculture operator.