Austral Fisheries Sustainability Commitments

Founded COLTO

The Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators – to help eliminate illegal fishers from our toothfish fisheries

First MSC certification for the Heard Island & McDonald Islands Mackerel Icefish fishery

Government Buyout of fishing licences

Austral Fisheries played an instrumental part in the Government buyout of fishing licences in the Northern Prawn Fishery to reduce that fleet from over 300 vessels down to 52.

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Heard Island & McDonald Islands Mackerel Icefish fishery

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Heard Island & McDonald Islands Mackerel Icefish fishery

Achieved MSC certification for the Macquarie Island Patagonian toothfish fishery

Achieved MSC certification for the Northern Prawn Fishery

Became Carbon Neutral

Under the Climate Active Carbon Neutral Program

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Heard Island & McDonald Islands Patagonian toothfish and Mackerel Icefish fisheries

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Macquarie Island Patagonian toothfish fishery

Became the inaugural partner with OpenSC

We partnered with OpenSC for block chain based traceability and transparency for our toothfish and prawn products

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Northern Prawn Fishery

Built the Austral Hunter

Pound for pound, the most efficient fishing vessel in the Northern Prawn Fishery.

Built the Cape Arkona

A triple purpose, hybrid-electric fishing vessel. The first of its kind in the world.

Seafood for Good Accelerator Program

We launched the Seafood for Good accelerator program, a 12 week initiative to develop and create innovative solutions for sustainable seafood in Australia.

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Heard Island & McDonald Islands Patagonian toothfish and Mackerel Icefish fisheries

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Macquarie Island Patagonian toothfish fishery

We have planted more than 220,000 trees in the Corridor every year since 2016

Achieved MSC re-certification for the Northern Prawn Fishery

Southern Ocean fleet certified under the FISH Standard for responsible crewing

Began building the Austral Odyssey

A state of the art longline vessel, which will be equipped for dual-fuels such as methanol when commercially viable.

100% renewable energy

Committed to transition to 100% renewable energy across all Australian offices by 2025.