Learn about Danish seine trawling
Learn more about the Danish seine method of trawling by watching this informative video including some underwater video of the gear in action. [wpdevart_youtube]74IOuDv6-JU[/wpdevart_youtube] (or watch directly on YouTube here)
Member of the Month – Barbara Konstas
Barbara has spent her life working with fish. Her father started a wholesale stall at the Melbourne Fish Market in 1968 and this business still continues. Barbara worked in the family business from the age of 19 to 24. She says that working in that business in school holidays taught her how to work, how […]
Gulper exclusion trial successful
The gulper exclusion proof-of-concept trial has been successful. Read on to learn more and see trawl footage taken at 500m depth. Harrisson’s dogfish and southern dogfish are part of a group of sharks called Upper-Slope Dogfish or Gulper Sharks. To rebuild populations of gulpers AFMA has put a series of closures in place. These closures are […]
Votes versus food security
In 2010, under a Labor Government, Fisheries Victoria engaged celebrity chef Neil Perry from the Rockpool Bar and Grill in Melbourne to narrate a video (screen shots to the left) called “SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD”. The video explained the sustainability, science and cultural importance of the 150 year old commercial net fishery in Port Phillip Bay as […]
Certainty brings investment in the South-East Fishery in Tasmania
Tasmanian business and SETFIA member Mures Seafood, has just opened a purpose built factory at Cambridge just out of Hobart at a cost of $3.2m. Mures currently operates the iconic Mures Upper Deck restaurant as well as Mures Lower Deck which serves fish and chips, ice cream, coffee, oysters and houses a fish monger. Both […]
AFMA release annual report for 2014/15
Extracted from AFMA’s Annual Report 2011/15 The South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association has enjoyed a long and productive working relationship with AFMA. The Association represents the interests of over 35 fishers working in the South East Trawl sector of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery, providing fresh local seafood for the people […]
Member of the month – Josh Pearce
30 year old Josh Pearce is November’s Member of the Month. Josh runs the Sanford Wholesale Fish Market in Youell Street Footscray having moved to Melbourne with wife Anna, two young children (and the family dog) from Auckland. Publically listed Sanford Ltd are New Zealand’s biggest seafood company with an annual turnover of NZ$452m and […]
Fish stocks in the south east trawl fishery being fished sustainably
30 October 2015. For immediate release. Each year the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) release a report on the stock status of all fish stocks managed by the Australian Government. Mr Simon Boag, Executive Officer of the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA), explained, “Today’s report shows sustained excellence […]
Show your support for Port Phillip Bay fishers
In November, the Victorian Government will seek to ban commercial net fishing in Port Phillip Bay. This means Victorians will no longer have access to fresh, local and affordable seafood. Read more here: Save Bay Seafood To show your support for Port Phillip Bay commercial fishers: visit the web page www.siv.com.au/savebayseafood and sign the online petition […]
Whiting machine now filleting
The Lakes Entrance Fisherman’s Co-operative has invested in a fantastic new automated school whiting filleting machine. This machine was adapted from Scandinavian technology and at full speed can fillet three whiting a second. Dale Sumner, Co-op General Manager explained, “eastern school whiting is a large volume local species that for many years was packed whole […]