The Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries (ACPF) provides up to $4000 to a fisher to investigate a problem (eg bycatch solutions, on-board processing, community acceptance/social license, etc) as part of ACPF’s People Development budget. ACPF is calling for fishers who have a prawn fishing problem to solve by Travelling to another prawn fishery, or another
In June the Australian Government announced increased prawn importation requirements, clamping down on importer avoidance in the cooked and breaded, battered and crumbed (BBC) categories. Cooked prawns are to be subject to random seals intact inspections. The Government has proposed that BBC prawns are to be par-cooked from September. These tightening of prawn import loopholes
Congratulations to NPFI Project Officer, Adrianne Laird and Spencer Gulf fisher, Ashley Lukin who were successful candidates for the 2018 National Seafood Industry Leadership Program (NSILP) and as recipients of ACPF’s People Development program $3,000 bursary. ACPF looks forward to Adrianne and Ashley’s leadership journey through NSILP 2018.
ACPF is nominating two candidates from the wild catch prawn industry for consideration to participate in the 2018 National Seafood Industry Leadership Program as part of ACPF’s People Development program. If successful, nominees are supported with a $3,000 bursary to attend the 3 residentials in 2018.
2018 is shaping up to be another busy year for the ACPF and we look forward to working with you all again to further the interests of the ACPF and its members in the coming year. Key activities will include the LAP campaign branching into the food service sector, extension on bycatch and energy efficiency
ACPF RD&E meeting: 15 ACPF members attended the RD&E meeting in person or by phone on Wednesday 27th September 2017 in Sydney. Key topics included a summary of RD&E investments to date including concepts under construction, community engagement advice presented by Futureye, and the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources presented work underway to attempt
Vale George Raptis. Born in 1937 to humble fishing folk on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula coast George was instrumental in growing Australia’s prawn export industry and in building seafood processing plants in both southern and northern Australia, George passed away after a valiant battle with cancer on 29th September. George’s legacy is that of a widely-respected
The 2017 ACPF AGM and a short presentation on our2017 achievements will be held from: 12 – 1:30pm Wednesday 27 September 1 Smail St, Ultimo, Sydney (just before the SIA meeting and Seafood Directions 2017 Welcome Reception). All ACPF members are encouraged to attend.
The board formed key agreements at the May Board meeting in relation to the Love Australian Prawns Campaign included: That 2017-18 should the retain the same focus as held throughout the campaign i.e. to make prawns ‘special’ That the campaign should continue to steer away from engaging in public WSD response (or associating LAP with WSD
The ACPF Board met in March 2017 to discuss White Spot. Of note the March meeting discussed and developed a policy position in response to White Spot as follows: Government and all sectors of industry should work toward the aim of declaring Australian WSSV free ACPF will work with FRDC to commission research to inform