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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Josh Jarvis – Member of the Month!
Josh Jarvis, age 20 Vessel: Imlay Port of Domicile: Eden Position: Deckhand, currently studying Skipper’s ticket How long have you been fishing? 4 years. Why did you get into fishing? Dad has been a fishermen since he was 15 and was a Skipper at 19. I’ve always wanted to be a trawl boat skipper. What […]
Noose tightens on dodgy fish sellers
The Association applauds industry leaders Con and Theodore Patsiotis, from the Australian Seafood Fish and Chippery in North Coburg who have publically called for country of origin labelling laws for cooked fish. The Australian Seafood Fish and Chippery was recently ranked as one Melbourne’s top 10 fish and chip shops. There are already laws in […]
$25m to develop Port of Eden
Eden is an important port in the South-East Trawl Fishery. However, south-west gales cause significant damage to recreational and commercial vessels in the port. Recognising this, the NSW State Government, Commonwealth Government and Bega Valley Shire Council have announced they will spend $25m on a wave attenuator, the extension of the breakwater wharf for cruise […]
Living fossil captured
The frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) gains its name from its six pairs of frill like gills. It is one of two remaining species of this ancient family which dates back 80 million years. It has a wide but patchy distribution in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on the outer and upper continental slope, generally near the […]
The other roughy – Darwin’s Roughy
This rare fish was caught off Eden in 200m of water and is believed to be a Darwin’s Roughy (Gephyroberyx darwinii). Other common names include Darwin’s Slimehead and the Finescale Roughy. The name suggests it was named by Charles Darwin but in fact it was named by Johnson in 1886. Literature suggests that it is […]
The 2014 Oil and Gas Season in Review
Fishermen share the fishery with companies that hold leases to explore for, and extract, oil and gas. SETFIA’s policy on the oil and gas industry is that we love their product, want to act like good neighbours but expect the oil and gas proponent to understand who fishes where, when and how the effects of […]
Why the fish naming standard must be legislated?
The brown lump of fish to the left is probably a large shark like a Mako Shark, Thresher Shark or Bronze Whaler but was allegedly sold to a Victorian cafe by a Victorian licensed fishermen as gummy shark (the true image of which is pictured on the right). The Association believes that consumers have the […]