CAQA Coastline Seafood
Coastline Seafood is an integrated seafood business on the Eyre Peninsula that grows, catches, processes and sells fish and shellfish. It farms yellowtail kingfish in sea cages in the sheltered waters near Port Lincoln, grows Pacific oysters on intertidal leases at Coffin Bay, operates three licensed fishing vessels targeting western king prawns and southern rock lobster, and processes the harvest in an export accredited plant. Product is sold as whole fish, fillets, sashimi grade loins, live lobster and oysters to restaurants, wholesalers and supermarkets in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, and to export customers in Asia.
The business is organised into six divisions. The hatchery produces fingerlings in a recirculating system and supplies the sea farm, where farm hands work the cages by boat on a seven day roster. The fishing fleet works trips of two to five days in season. The processing plant runs a day shift and a harvest shift, and the cold chain and sales team runs the Wingfield distribution centre and the delivery fleet. Quality, safety and compliance sit with a small central team that supports every division and manages the relationship with regulators, auditors and customers.
Coastline operates under a documented food safety program based on the Primary Production and Processing Standard for Seafood and a hazard analysis approach, and holds export accreditation for the plant. Biosecurity and stock health are managed under a veterinary health plan, water quality is monitored daily, and environmental monitoring is reported to the aquaculture regulator each year. Vessels are surveyed and crewed under the national domestic commercial vessel law, and safety at sea, on the cages, in the plant and on the road is managed under a single work health and safety system with monthly consultation at every site.