HIK Abalone Farm’s abalone stock management and abalone stock forecasting is the most important aspect of the business aside from the farming of abalone.
Maintenance and accurate stock data is of the highest priority when putting monthly and annual production plans in place. These software programs allow for biological, technical and environmental data collection and analysis, as well as the merging of output data into stock growing and harvesting frameworks.
This program has made a huge difference as to how abalone are farmed at HIK Abalone Farm and outputs from these programs are merged with other information sources to compute variable farm productivity and efficiency indicators.
HIK Abalone Farm is considered one of the industry leaders in research on abalone (Haliotis midae) and other species. Their continued efforts have led to improvement in the productivity, regulation and sustainability of abalone cultivation in South Africa.
Identification of alternative aquaculture species is a research priority and HIK and its affiliated companies nurture relationships with academic institutions throughout southern Africa to promote the continuous interaction between industry and young scientists in the field of aquaculture research.
The abalone research focus areas include: production techniques, water quality and re-use, diet performance and sustainability, reproductive biology of cultivated abalone, and abalone genetics. Additional key focus research areas include Kob (Argyrosomus japonicus) and sea cucumber (Holothuria scabra).
South Africa is one of the world’s top producers of abalone, exporting high-quality products of the endemic Haliotis midae or ‘perlemoen...