La Beach
Ambience, quality service and fresh seafood are the ingredients for award-winning La Beach restaurant at Cullen Bay. The ambience flows au naturel from the tropical resort views and sea breezes while the service comes with hand-picked staff …more » (597KB PDF)
Darwin Convention Centre
“Every visitor to Darwin, nine times out of ten, wants local barra,” says Aaron Roussos. “I thought, coming from Adelaide, that it would be the same as I had cooked there but the barra in the Territory is totally different.” Aaron Roussos and Carrie Altamura from the Darwin Convention Centre talk about the importance of serving quality seafood to their guests …more » (732KB PDF)
The Chip ‘n’ Fish Bar
Dining on Stokes Hill Wharf shortly after arriving in the Territory, Barbara and Michael Farris from the Chip ‘n’ Fish Bar on Mitchell Street, were surprised to be served fish imported from overseas …more » (742KB PDF)
Hunting and Farming
Bruce Lamont is a hunter and a farmer of fish. Just as ancient hunters relied on tracking skills and finely crafted tools to put food on the table, this modern fisherman pits his wits against the vagaries of the weather, the …more » (834KB PDF)
Married to the Job
Fishing is Adam Sanders’ life. The industry has its challenges and uncertainties, but Adam can’t imagine doing anything else, even though it means being “married to the job” nine months a year. One of the Territory’s younger fishing operators, Adam has fished since he was a child …more » (630KB PDF)
Darwin Harbour Cruises
Margaret River and the Barossa Valley are to vineyards and fine wines as Darwin’s tropical waters are to mud crab and barramundi…Darwin Harbour Cruises serve up 22,000 meals a year, which translates to 12 tonnes of locally caught barramundi and two tonnes of prawns a year ...more » (866KB PDF)
To Market
It would be hard to find anyone more passionate about Territory seafood than Ziko Ilic, voted the Territory seafood industry’s ‘icon’ at this year’s seafood industry awards. Except, perhaps, his partner Carmel McCaskill-Ball ...more » (837KB PDF)
A Family Business
There’s a young man in Perth called Jack Passey whose favorite toy is a fish called Nemo and who has an early appreciation for fishing rods that warms the cockles of his beaming grandfather’s heart ...more » (871KB PDF)
From Pond to Plate
As NT farmed barramundi takes its place at the best restaurants in the land, the Territory’s three barramundi farms are collaborating to promote the quality of farmed fish and educate consumers ...more » (862KB PDF)
A Niche for Fresh Fish
As Adam Collins moors at Fisherman’s Wharf in Darwin, he has slept only two hours before steaming home. He will spend the day filleting, have a nap, then head back out overnight to complete a local order …more » (761KB PDF)
Born to the Prawn Industry
During the 1980s Louise Deacon met a young skipper called Ean Casey. Despite a childhood spent following her father to ports up and down the west coast and advice from her mother to “never marry a fisherman”...more » (809KB PDF)
A Passion for Quality
Matt Seccombe is one of the new breed of tertiary educated fish farmers working in the Territory who have as much focus on environmental sustainability, innovation and marketing as they do with animal husbandry …more » (813KB PDF)
