CARP PRODUCTS

K&C Fisheries provide a wide range of high quality products tailored to meet the customer needs in both the domestic and export markets.

Carp Nutrition Facts:

• Nutrition Servings per Can 3 approx Serving Size (g) 100
• Facts Unit Per 100g Per serving Unit Per 100 g Per serving
• Energy kj 582 582 Carbohydrate g 0.0 0.0
• Protein g 18.8 18.8 - sugars g 0.0 0.0
• Fat, total g 7.1 7.1 Sodium mg 200 200
  • saturated g 1.6 1.6

Domestic Market:

K&C Fisheries supply whole fish direct to the Melbourne and Sydney Fresh Fish Markets. Trunks (head, gutted, scaled and tailed) and fillets are for smoking, canning and pickling are supplied for the fresh food market direct to companies for further processing.

Export Market:

K&C Fisheries export products include Carp Trunks and Carp Roe.

Frozen Carp trunks are exported to Poland, with a potential demand of 400 tonne per annum, the Middle East with a potential demand of 2000 tonne per annum and Europe with a potential demand of 700 tonnes per annum.

In 2003 K&C Fisheries developed a process to enable the production of a high value Carp Roe product for human consumption. K&C Fisheries delivers the Roe product in chilled/salted form, as opposed to frozen form supplied by other manufacturers, this saves the client approximately two days of production time in the defrosting and preparation (washing and separating) of the frozen product.

The chilled product eliminates the risk of loss of quality and is of benefit to the client with the reduction of production time. The product is packaged in environmentally considerate reusable plastic pales. These plastic pales provide an additional product to the customer, which they then on-sell to farmers for sealed feed and water bins.

80 tonnes of Carp Roe product is exported to Europe per annum.

Value Added Product:

The production of Trunks and Roe for the export market, created a waste product of Heads, Guts and Skin. These waste products are further processed and supplied for:

• Bait to the Crayfish Industry in Victoria, King Island and South Australia. Carp flesh is hardier in salt water. As it is a fresh water fish, sea lice won't effect it. Because of this it becomes a cost effective bait for use by the Crayfish Industry.
• To the plant fertilizer industry and the pet food industry for use in it's products.
• The Skins are used for tanning to make them into a finished product, such as handbags, belts and other leather apparel opportunities.

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Keith Bell of K&C Fisheries provides a range of professional consultancy services to private companies, government departments and/or agencies, clients include

• Victorian Fisheries;
• NSW Department of Land;
• Gundagai Council (Queensland)
• Perth City Council (Western Australia)
• Macquarie Generation - Newcastle (New South Wales)
• Tandou Pty Ltd (Cotton Farm - New South Wales)
• Glenelg/Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (Victoria)
• CSIRO - Canberra (ACT)
• Australian Paper - Maryvale Mill (Victoria)
• TXU - Morwell (Victoria)

Consultancy services include:

• Mitigation Of Carp Infestations
• Fish Processing & Harvesting Techniques
• Export Processing Facilities
• Aquaculture Development
• Research & Development

Professional Presentations & Public Forums:

• Pest CRC - Daughterless Carp Project
• National Carp Task Force
• Catchment Management Authorities
• FishCare Gippsland Incorporated
• Educational Institutions

Industry Projects, Partnerships & Alliances:

K&C Fisheries have a demonstrated long term commitment to Australian innovation through it's alliances, joint ventures and infrastructure investment in its Aquaculture Development Centre. Joint ventures and alliances include:

• 1994 to 2004 worked in partnership with Uncle Ben's to introduce Carp to its pet food line for export markets. This included research into harvesting, large scale aquaculture of the product and machinery development to utilize the product in their factory.
• 2002 Research Study Tour to China with Uncle Ben's to investigate Carp Aquaculture & feasibility of establishing an Export Processing Facility.
• As a stakeholder in the Pest Animal CRC - Daughterless Carp Project, which has a proposed 50 year term.
• Undertaking consultancy work for PIRVIC Queenscliff (Primary Industry Research Victoria) to develop large scale Carp Aquaculture in waste water treatment plants (project title - Agricultural Harmony

Keith Bell - Mobile: +61 428 517 157      Cate Bell - Mobile: +61 428 331 933
Export Licence No 3435     ABN 73 080 059 294