FISHING TASMANIAN SEAFOOD INDUSTRY NEWS today Volume 22 No 2 April/May 2009 INSIDE: >2 Spring Bay Seafoods > P3 TSIC at Wooden Boat Festival > P20 Spotlight on Australian Salmon > 30 Certificate of Election Tasmanian Seafood TSIC Industry Council 2009 Election of 9 Directors I have conducted an election in accordance with the rules of the Tasmanian Seafood Industry Council. I have declared the following eight candidates Giles FISHER Rodney HERWEYNEN Sam IBBOTT Robert MILNER Lindsay William NEWMAN Neville PERRYMAN Peter STEGMANN Amanda Jane WAY elected unopposed to serve as Directors of the Board for a two-year term of office. Julian Type — Deputy Electoral Commissioner — 2 March 2009 Level 2, Telstra Centre (GPO Box 300) 70 Collins Street, Hobart Tas 7000 Phone 1800 801 701 or 6233 2000 Fax 6224 0217 Email us at [email protected] Visit out website at www.electoral.tas.gov.au FISHING TASMANIAN SEAFOOD INDUSTRY NEWS President’s Report 2 $1.3 million boost to blue mussel research 2 Spring Bay Seafoods’ mussels 3 Rural Financial Counselling Service Tasmania 4 Oysters Tasmania 5 Profile: Tom lewis 6 Profile: Raymond Murphy 7 TSIC’s Chief Executive’s Report 8 today TSIC news > The lack of pesticide regulation in Tasmania 9 By Catch 11 Volume 22 No 2 April/May 2009 Industry Wide 12 Department news TASMANIAN SEAFOOD DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY > Review of the Scalefish Fishery Management Plan 15 INDUSTRY COUNCIL (TSIC) INDUSTRIES AND WATER > Clean Up Australia Day 16 PO Box 878, GPO Box 44, > Northern Pacific Seastar 16 Sandy Bay 7006 Hobart, 7001 > Rock Lobster port meetings May 2009 17 Ph: 03 6224 2332 Ph: 03 6233 8011 > New mackerel rules 17 Fax: 03 6224 2321 Kim Evans – Secretary Email: [email protected] Ph: 03 6233 3037 International News 18 Web: www.tsic.org.au Wes Ford – General Manager, SeaNet is back 19 ABN: 61 009 555 604 Primary Industries Division TSIC at the Wooden Boat Festival 2009 20 Ph: 03 6233 6545 Young leaders in the making: Joey McKibben and Bryan Denny 22 TSIC DIRECTORS Robert Gott – Director, Marine Lindsay Newman – President Resources TAFI news Ph: 0418 368 708 Ph: 03 6233 6632 > Launch of a Marine Nation: National Framework for Neville Perryman Grant Pullen – Manager, Marine Research and Innovation 24 – Vice President Wild Fisheries > TAFI tagging update 25 Ph: 0419 878 086 Ph: 03 6233 3157 > The state of the Tasmanian scalefish fishery 2007-08 26 Sam Ibbott > Have you seen any adult eastern lobsters in your catch? 28 – Treasurer TASMANIAN AQUACULTURE & FISHERIES INSTITUTE > Assessment of management options to minimise Ph: 0400 697 175 formation of ‘barrens’ habitat by the long-spined sea Giles Fisher Private Bag 49, Hobart 7001 urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) in Tasmania 29 Ph: 0427 508 055 Professor Colin Buxton Rodney Herweynen > Research spotlight on Australian salmon 30 – Director Ph: 0418 130 193 > Dr Gretta Pecl – 2009 Fulbright Tasmania Scholar 31 Ph: 03 6227 7256 Robert Milner Fax: 03 6227 8035 MAST news Ph: 0417 037 046 > Jetty reconstruction program 32 Peter Stegmann Ph: 0427 278 863 Seafood Training Tasmania 33 Amanda Way Regional Food Producers Innovation and Productivity Program 33 Ph: 0419 393 836 Curiosities 34 New edition of Sharks and Rays of Australia launched 36 Winds, thunderstorms and showers 37 Depression: Australia’s hidden illness 38 TSIC STAFF Seafood Selections 39 Neil Stump – Chief Executive Ph: 0417 394 009 [email protected] Directory 40 Emily Ogier – Project Officer [email protected] Julie Martin – Office Manager [email protected] Mary Brewer – Administrative Officer [email protected] Advertising index Photographic acknowledgments: Mary Brewer, Hugh Pederson, Sam Ibbott Front cover: Mary Brewer Baily Marine __________________ 10 Sunderland Marine ___________ BC BDO Kendalls ________________ 37 TasBulk ______________________6 Beyondblue __________________ 27 TasFRAB ____________________35 George Town Seafoods ________ IBC Tooltech Pty Ltd ______________IBC Production by Kettering Marine ______________ 16 Tri-Star Marine _________________2 Artemis Publishing Consultants Purple Pig ____________________ 7 TSIC ______________________ IFC Ph: 03 6231 6122 RASS Marine Broker ____________5 Yanmar _____________________28 >2 email [email protected] For advertising in Fishing Today Advertising deadline for the next issue: 20 May 2009 contact Mary Brewer at TSIC on Ph: 03 6224 2332 Fishing Today is distributed free to the Tasmanian Seafood Industry. 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On the same • to unite all sections of the fishing day our 23rd Annual General Meeting will industry in Tasmania for their common be held and an invitation is extended to benefit; all members to attend. • to promote efforts within the industry 1986. We need to proceed with an open Ongoing dialogue and solutions to your for the solving of common problems; mind in a united effort to sustain our concerns continue to be progressed at and industry, maintain its integrity and pursue many levels and your productive and all opportunities to improve our resources • to obtain for the Tasmanian industry proactive input is always welcome. and investigate any worthwhile ideas to the best solutions which the economy introduce a new generation of fishers, It is interesting to look back on the of Australia will permit. reasons why this organisation evolved. processors and marine farmers. These aims are highlighted as much I have recently re-read the Articles of Lindsay Newman because of their relevance today as in President $1.3 million boost to blue mussel research A $1.3 million research project to There seem to be problems associated environment in which these animals are examine how to increase numbers of with that transition of life,’ Assoc. Prof. undergoing the transition.’ Moltschaniwskyj said. ‘We’ll be looking juvenile mussels available to commercial Funding for the project is coming from at a number of issues associated with aquaculture operations, and to increase the Fisheries Research and Development what allows for successful production Australia’s ability to produce more Corporation (FRDC), along with significant of baby mussels and they include mussels for national and international contributions from industry partners elements of health, nutrition and physical markets, is about to begin. Spring Bay Seafoods, Shellfish Culture and biological characteristics of the Research will be led by Australian and UTAS. Maritime College (AMC) Associate Professor Natalie Moltschaniwskyj and Dr Chris Bolch of the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource ALUMINIUM BOATS Sustainability and associated with TAFI. The bulk of the experiments will be CUSTOM MADE conducted at Spring Bay Seafoods and at the hatchery facilities at Shellfish Culture. Assoc. Prof. Moltschaniwskyj said the traditional practice of collecting juvenile mussels, or spat, from the wild, then placing them in farms, meant growth in commercial production had always been limited by numbers available for collection. Commercial craft specialists ‘The project is focussed on trying to address the bottlenecks in the hatchery production of blue mussels. We’re TRI-STAR MARINE particularly interested in that process when a baby mussel goes from being a 57 Gepp Parade pelagiac juvenile to attaching onto a rope DERWENT PARK 6273 6659 and starting life as an attached mussel. 2 TASMANIAN SEAFOOD INDUSTRY NEWS APRIL/MAY 2009 > Spring Bay Seafoods Mussels in the tray pack have a use-by date of eight days beyond harvest. If you buy them loose, take them out of the SHHH... Don’t wake the plastic bag and put them in a big bowl in the fridge. Once a day give them a good mussels, says the sticker rattle around, which will make any that have opened, shut up. on a kilo pack of Spring Bay Do not use mussels that are open and will not close if given a good tap, but chefs and pesky food writers often have Seafoods’ mussels promoted the ‘rule’ not to eat mussels that have not opened after cooking. Such by Elaine Reeves, the Mercury advice is misinformed. Lamb says there is nothing wrong with a mussel that won’t open – it simply is ‘hanging on harder’ and However, they are not really in suspended atmosphere). They are easy and quick to not releasing the muscle to open the shell. animation. The atmosphere inside the pack cook and actually let you know when they Leave them on the heat a minute more, is oxygen-rich to keep them breathing with are done by opening up. and if they still don’t open you can prise just enough air pressure to keep them They are high in protein and heat- them open with a knife and safely closed.