We're helping make seafood positive
SeaGen Aquaculture and Seafood Positive are proud to team up to help restore marine habitats for healthy, thriving oceans.
Seafood Positive is a social enterprise. Through its OneFishTwoFish program, it enables restaurants and supermarkets to give back to the oceans by investing in projects that help restore fish habitat.
The fish habitat projects are run by reputable charities that are experienced in conservation and ocean restoration.
SeaGen Aquaculture supports this work by growing baby oysters, mussels, scallops and kelp for the OneFishTwoFish program to donate to charities.
Why fish habitat restoration is important
Healthy marine habitats provide shelter, food and nursery grounds for fish, shellfish and other marine life to live, feed and reproduce. This increases the productivity of our ocean – more fish equals more seafood.
Science tells us that restoring shellfish reefs and other marine habitats is good for the oceans. Each year, one hectare of oyster reef filters 2.7 billion litres of seawater, removes 225 kilograms of nitrogen and phosphate and produces 375 kg of new fish!
We use shells diverted from landfill by The Nature Conservancy's Shuck Don't Chuck program. They're brought to our hatchery to give our baby shellfish natural surfaces to settle onto.
When big enough, the baby shellfish and recycled shells are returned to the ocean. Over time, they'll form new reef structures that help fish and other marine life grow and thrive.
Results delivered for nature
In 2024, SeaGen Aquaculture grew 10,000 native Angasi oysters and
1 million baby Australian Blue Mussels, which Seafood Positive donated to The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Reef Builder program.
TNC deployed these baby shellfish onto carefully positioned artificial reefs in Port Phillip Bay.
Seafood Positive and SeaGen Aquaculture are proud to support TNC's Reef Builder program, which is Australia's largest marine restoration initiative.
Together with governments, businesses, and the community, TNC aims to restore 60 shellfish reefs at 60 locations across Australia, making Australia the first nation in the world to recover a critically endangered marine ecosystem (natureaustralia.org.au).
Stay tuned for more donations!
Photo credit: Chris Gillies/TNC
