Ballina Fishermens Coop

Products: Selection of fresh fish fillets ranging from Flathead, Swordfish, Whiting, Salmon, Barramundi and many others along with fresh oysters, octopus, Squid tubes, cuttlefish, Cooked Mud Crab, Spanner Crab, King Prawns and Balmain Bugs

The Ballina fishermen’s co-operative is a local company which deals in the processing and marketing of fresh seafood from local catch.

The Co-op consists of, and is owned by its 26 members who are all independent professionally licenced fishermen. To maintain membership they must turn over through the co-ops financial books, a minimum amount of their catch per annum.

The benefit of being a member is the use of the co-op’s facilities, such as cool room and freezer space, ice making facilities, weighing in facilities, accounts and book keeping facilities, and its value as a sales tool for their product.

The co-op deals in the business of seafood receival, wholesale, internal sales, retail sales, filleting and processing. It carries a range of store room goods which are relevant to the fishing industry and are available for sale to the members at discount price, alleviating the need for them to outsource and pay retail price.