Geraldton Fishermen's Co-operative Ltd

Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative (GFC) was formed in 1950 by a group of fishers who wanted to take control of their own supply chain.

Today, GFC continues to be proudly fisher owned and controlled and has grown to represent 70% of Australia’s most valuable wild-caught fishery, Western Rock Lobster.

This equates to nearly 50% of Australia’s total rock lobster exports. GFC’s Member shareholders are family-owned fishing businesses that are spread over 1,000 kilometres of the Western Australian coastline and continue to maintain total ownership and control of their supply chain through their Cooperative.

GFC producers Western rock lobster under the brand Brolos, an abbreviation of Abrolhos, the chain of islands off the coast of Geraldton. Up to 50% of the lobster biomass originates in the waters surrounding these islands