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 [...]
Bycatch and Trawl Efficiency Series How fuel costs could be reduced by >30% and bycatch by >90% As part of the ACPF and FRDC funded project to explain bycatch reduction and trawl efficiency research results in fisheries, Steve Keneally, Matt Broadhurst and Steve Eayrs share options to reduce bycatch and trawl [...]
Kaj Christensen, Managing Director & Partner of KM Fish Machinery, Denmark will be visiting Australian fisheries in October and advising of onboard processing efficiency options. A three year long project aiming to help fishers to improve on-board processing and packaging efficiency is set to begin. Using a range of different vessel sizes and [...]
On Friday 14 December, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a $5 million package over three years to be shared among local organisations to relieve costs of keeping Australia free of White Spot. Queensland’s continuing efforts to control and contain White Spot mean uncooked prawns, including those used for bait, are unable to be moved [...]
Austral Fisheries FishEX 70 The NPF trialled Austral Fisheries’ FishEX 70, a modification of Kon’s Covered Fisheyes, in this year’s banana prawn season with AFMA scientific observers. The FishEX 70 is a single device set at 65 meshes from the codend drawstrings while the Kon’s Covered Fisheye is a double device. Scientific trial [...]
