Barramundi Lates calcarifer, occurs throughout the SouthEast Asian region, including northern Australia Figure 1. In SouthEast Asia barramundi is known as Asian sea bass and a successful farming industry, particularly in Thailand, has been established for many years. In the wild, they can grow to 180 cm total length up to 60 kg but farmed fish are usually sold at plate size 500 g or around 3 kg for filleting. Research into the culture of barramundi began in Australia in 1984 with studies carried out by the Queensland Government. The work was initially aimed at adapting culture techniques developed in Thailand to Australian conditions. Following the evident success of preliminary research, the first commercial barramundi hatchery and farm was started in 1986 in Mourilyan Harbour, North Queensland Schipp, 1996.

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