The ACPF Members and RD&E forums and 2019 AGM took place in Melbourne on 8-9th October with 15 members and observers in attendance. Presentations and lively discussion took place on topics ranging from: Planning for 2020-2025 Love Australian Prawns and the future market Prawn profiling Community engagement On-board safety Processing and packaging Animal welfare [...]
The ACPF congratulates our NSILP 2019 graduates Jodie Ford, NQ Trawling and Scott Razga, Sea-harvest (previously Mareterram) on completion of the National Seafood Industry Leadership Program (NSILP) and joining the NSILP Alumni. As well as participating in a challenging series of residentials, participants are required to finish a project that delivers on their team’s [...]
Spring is a season of green shoots and green prawns as LAP kicks up activity for BBQ season. On-trend Pad Thai and other regionally inspired stir fries are being promoted through Woolworths stores and online, while Independent seafood retailers are busy pre-ordering LAP’s new 32 page Summer recipe books. A 20 recipe photo shoot [...]
NPF to test water flow around Tom’s Fisheye and Shark Bay to trial e-logs Awarded $4,000 each from ACPF’s ‘Fisher Exchange’ program, two projects aimed at solving a prawn fishing problem have been supported by ACPF as follows; NPF industry project to trial the Tom's Fisheye BRD in a flume tank in Denmark. The [...]
Bycatch and Trawl Efficiency Series Bycatch Reduction Globally and in Australia Bycatch Reduction and Codend As part of the ACPF/ FRDC funded project to extend bycatch reduction and trawl efficiency research results to our fisheries, Steve Keneally, Matt Broadhurst and Steve Eayrs share options to reduce bycatch and trawl efficiency. The summary of findings [...]
On-board processing efficiency - Part 2 As part of the Fight Food Waste CRC/ACPF/FRDC project, Kaj Christensen from KM Machinery, Denmark has completed a first visit to Australia to look at on-board processing systems and met with owners and/or skippers from Gulf St Vincent, Spencer Gulf and Shark Bay heard to [...]
Having been proud partners with Seafood Industry Australia inside FRDC project 2017/242 “Our pledge: Australian seafood industry response to community values and expectations”, ACPF has signed on to “Our Pledge”. Australia’s wild prawn fisheries share similar social licence issues with other Australian seafood sectors. We also share the need [...]
To address the growing disconnect between the community and its food, the ACPF will launch a large project to narrow the gap for Australian wild prawns in early 2020. The FRDC project (2018/172: Methods to profile and connect the provenance of wild caught prawn fisheries and their values to the community) will roll out [...]
Provenance technology promises higher consumer confidence in Aussie prawn origins Senator the Hon ‘Jonno’ Duniam, Federal Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, enthusiastically launched the ACPF/APFA/FRDC project to profile Australian prawns by their environmental fingerprint at the Boatbuilders Yard on 9th October. This event followed the ‘trace metals’ project taking [...]
Applications for up to $4,000 due 7 August 2019 Apply Now! Up to $4000 is being provided for a fisher to investigate a problem (eg bycatch solutions, on-board processing, 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 [...]
