Seafood Traders Pty Ltd

Seafood Traders P/L was established in 1983, and has been at its present site at Cambridge since 1993. Its principle and founder of this family company, Mr. Adrian Cuthbertson, has had 14 years experience in the live abalone market having shipped the first commercial quantities from Australia in 1988. Mr Cuthbertson has a total 30 years combined experience in most facets of the abalone industry from catching to farming and export.The export plant at Cambridge, Tasmania, has a holding capacity of 9, 000kg of live abalone in 50 separate tanks. The modern facility has been purpose built to handle abalone from all parts of the state and allows for a range of conditioning temperatures. Six separate holding systems provides the flexibility to receive and dispatch live abalone without interruption to the conditioning process.Seafood Traders P/L has its own blast freezing system capable of batch freezing IQF abalone in less than 45 minutes. The companys blast freezer holding system caters for 1, 000kg of packaged frozen product in various forms.Seafood Traders P/L is also a part owner of a 55 foot catcher vessel that is used to fish Tasmanias rugged west coast for abalone. The Elena Rose has been fitted out specifically for the transport of up to 4, 000kg per trip of live abalone from the west coast fishing grounds to the companys facility near Hobart. The companys investment in the mother ship ensures premium quality product is available for its export market.We currently export in excess of 100, 000kg of abalone products annually, to markets in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the USA.