Humpty Doo

Humpty Doo Barramundi

Barramundi Farming in Australia takes place in widely different areas and there are very different methods used in the different locations. Barramundi are an estuarine species and can live in either fresh or salt water. In northern Australia the fish are farmed either in ponds using salt or brackish water or they are farmed in cage systems in the sea.

Humpty Doo Barramundi operates ponds using water pumped from the Adelaide River south of Darwin. They implemented ISO 14001 as part of a group of Barramundi farmers in northern Australia. The groups attended workshops based in either Cairns or Darwin and were subsidised by FarmBis which was very helpful as they all needed to travel large distances from mostly remote places across northern Australia. The Darwin based group was joined by the northern territory airports which made an interesting mix of experience in the group.

They approached Jean to add OH&S (AS/NZS 4801) and Quality (ISO 9001). They are doing this remotely with only one day's training to implement this system and mentoring by phone, fax and email. The tools, templates and training are simple enough to allow this.