South Africa is one of the world’s top producers of abalone, exporting high-quality products of the endemic Haliotis midae or ‘perlemoen’ to markets mainly in Asia.
The production of abalone occurs mainly in tanks in land-based systems, but increasingly, permits for reseeding of abalone in the ocean in ranching abalone systems are being allocated. Abalone products from South Africa range from fresh live abalone to dried and processed products.
By Marinda Louw
Systems used in the farming of abalone are recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), ranching, cage culture and flow-through systems....
In order to sustain and protect wild populations of abalone, these highly-prized and delectable sea snails are bred in technologically contr...
Of a whole abalone, about 30% is abalone meat, 22% is shell made of calcium carbonate and the rest is intestines....
The farming of abalone in South Africa is in land-based systems along the coast, mainly in the Southern Cape, but there are also abalone far...
Basically, a sea snail with a high export value, abalone or ‘perlemoen’ in Afrikaans, is endemic to the rocks of South Africa’s shallo...