What do Melbourne’s Best Fish & Chip Shops Have in Common?
Melbourne’s Australian Seafood Fish and Chippery has taken out top spot in The Age’s Goodfood Best Fish and Chips 2016. This doesn’t come as a surprise because they made the top 10 in the Herald Sun in January last year. Social media seems to agree with perfect 5/5 Facebook reviews, 5/5 from Trip Advisor and even […]
Charities ranked for reputation
The Charity Reputation Index is produced each year by research consultants AMR, which also produces the annual Corporate Reputation Index, Country Reputation Index and City Reputation Index. The Charity Reputation Index collates insight directly from consumers, and does not rely on any information provided by the organisations being studied. The list of the Top 40 […]
Productivity Commission Inquiry Announced
Just prior to Christmas, the Treasurer, the Honorable Scott Morrison, announced a Productivity Commission inquiry into the regulatory burden imposed on the Australian marine fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The Association is highly supportive of this announcement given it coincided with AFMA’s proposal to increase cost recovered levies in the trawl fishery under a new system […]
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 […]