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Tasmania
Tasmania's remote location, adjacent to the vast expanses of the Southern Ocean, provide some of the world's cleanest air and the purest cool climate waters where Southern Rock Lobster thrive.
Tasmania is the southernmost part of Australia. Its main island is about the same size as the Japanese island of Hokkaido and of Taiwan. Together with its surrounding islands it has a coastline of 2000 km. It is surrounded by the cold clean waters of the Southern Ocean and Tasman Sea.
This pristine environment provides the ideal habitat for the highly prized species of rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii).
Process Excellence and Flexibility
The lobster is harvested by skilled fishermen from boats around the entire Tasmanian coastline.
After harvesting, the premium lobster is carefully processed through operations that are meticulously controlled to ensure the very highest standards of health, hygiene and quality, to ensure that product reaches its destination in perfect condition and in line with customers requirements. Click here to view a list of Tasmanian Rock Lobster export processors.
Sustainability Ensured
Whilst wild fisheries are in serious decline around the world, in Tasmania, the State Government has maintained rigorous measures to ensure a reliable supply of premium quality Southern Rock Lobster.
The Tasmanian rock lobster fishery has been sustainably managed for over 120 years and has been an important component of the State’s fishing industry for over 150 years. Throughout that time fishermen and their boats needed to be licenced.
From the 1884 fishermen were required to observe a minimum size and to fish only in prescribed seasons with specified gear. Since 1926 the number of traps that could be used from a boat was also limited. Following World War II fishermen began to build bigger boats and use the most modern technology to find and catch lobsters and as a result landings increased.
In 1967 the number of fishing licences was limited to restrain excessive development. However fishing pressure soon increased again as more sophisticated technology was introduced and in 1998 individual transferable quotas were introduced under a total allowable catch, while size limits, limited entry and gear restrictions were also retained. Stocks have already rebuilt under these new regulations and the future of the fishery is very secure.
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