Thirty years of experience has allowed Abagold to perfect the process that is now used in our world class hatchery to produce the spat that is required for our operation.
Abagold’s hatchery provides a solid foundation for the cultivation of its abalone and consists of four distinct nodes. Due to the recent expansion and improvements, the hatchery now produces sufficient volumes of spat to allow the operations to select only the strongest and best-suited animals. Abagold uses only premium selected wild abalone as broodstock for spawning.In the larval rearing area, fertilised eggs are hatched and nursed for the first week before they are transferred to the hatchery, where settled animals spend the first few months feeding on diatoms. Animals are weaned onto macro-algae in the nursery and grown to spat size.
The hatchery produces excess spat every month – this way only the best animals are picked out to ensure the superior final product that Abagold is renowned for.