Bidgee Fresh is a progressive aquaculture company formed by an innovative team with a long and successful history in agribusiness. Located in the beautiful NSW Riverina, Bidgee Fresh produces high quality, cage reared Murray Cod in the clear waters of the Murrumbidgee irrigation system.
The business concept started in 2012 when Mat and Bonnie Ryan established Riverina Aquaculture. Mat and Bonnie began discussions with local successful agribusiness owners Roger and George Commins about establishing a joint venture to develop an aquaculture supply, service and marketing business incorporating a hatchery, nursery, grow-out facility and processing plant, and in 2015, Bidgee Fresh was formed.
Bidgee Fresh will stock fingerlings from their own hatchery for the first time in 2016. Their plan is to develop their breeding capabilities with a longer term plan of being able to supply advanced stockers to other growers also.
Murray Cod Australia is to acquire Bidgee Fresh Pty Ltd which owns and operates a customised fish nursery, where fish are received as fingerlings and grown into “advanced stockers” that are then considered large enough to transfer to custom-built cages within ponds on the Farm