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Rocky Point Prawn Farm Christmas Special

Fresh black tiger prawns - medium size @ $20 / kg

We are harvesting these the week before Christmas
- these are freshly caught and cooked prawns -
they are not frozen like most other prawn farms supply.

Available from 21st Dec for Christmas / New Year, phone first : 07 5546 1588 or pre-order by our web page

Rocky Point Prawn Farm, 50 kilometres south of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, opened a new hatchery late in 2001 to meet their ongoing requirements and also to meet the requirements of other Australian prawn farms. There is also a small but developing export market for their high quality, disease free larvae. The anticipated annual capacity of the hatchery is in excess of 100 million larvae.

Rocky Point Prawn Farm is a family-run business with a well-established kuruma and black tiger farm as well as the new hatchery. The farm has developed under the guidance of the Zipf family to become an extremely productive kuruma prawn facility. The farm, which boasts 31 ponds and an annual production of about 90 tonnes, exports about 500 kilograms of kuruma prawns to Japan five days a week for five months of the year.

The Rocky Point grown kuruma prawns are available at the world famous Tsukiji market in Tokyo for the highly selective Japanese market.

The Australian prawn farming industry is worth about $AUD 50 million a year and rising, with restaurants in the main cities of Australia now having the opportunity to access both live kuruma and live black tiger prawns during their production season.

PRAWNBROKERS REDEEM AN INDUSTRY
The Courier Mail, Thursday November 13 2003, Page 10

PRAWN farms don't come much greener than a Gold Coast operation whose environmental standards have won international recognition and fooled 20 million baby crustaceans into thinking they live in the open sea.
Serena Zipf and her family operate the hatchery at Woongoolba, near Beenleigh, and the venture's green credentials have made it the world's first prawn farm to achieve a voluntary environmental accreditation with the International Standards Organisation.
The standard of environmental awareness, including improved water quality, recycling and water treatment ponds, is so high the farm is being used as a model for others.
Aquaculture businesses have previously been criticised for their environmental impact, particularly on water use and quality, and many businesses refuse to deal with companies which don't have a proven concern for the environment.
"Everything is about the prawns," Mrs Zipf joked yesterday.
"But really, this is about doing the best thing for both your business and the environment.
"What it does is it says 'you are using a natural resource, have a look at your impact and how you can manage it so that you can sustainably use it for a long time'.
"Just look at feeding the prawns. If we feed them too much, the water quality deteriorates and so does the crop so we reduce feeding which gives us cleaner water and my prawns grow faster and stronger."
Federal Fisheries Minister Senator Ian Macdonald said the ISO acknowledgment would mean a major boost in potential overseas buyers, some of whom once refused to purchase farmed prawns because of environmental concerns.
He said the prawn farm had created an unprecedented situation in Japan where the company's products were "the benchmark of the premium market in the world".
Ryan Heffernan

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