IMAGINE fresh, locally-caught
seafood delivered direct to your door. Sound too good to be true? Not anymore.Seafood Company Fishi has
partnered with home-delivery business Food Porter to do just that for
Whitsunday residents.Fishi has been run by
husband-and-wife team Matt and Bronwyn Calder, on Hamilton Island, for the past
three years.Becoming a provider of fresh,
locally-caught seafood to mainland residents is the next step in their business
journey.
“The Food Porter model really
fits with our company ethos of delivering fresh, wild-caught seafood straight
to the customer’s door,” Matt said.“That has always been our ethos
on Hamilton Island and now we are able to do that for residents on the mainland
as well.” The business runs two boats – its
own commercial line-fishing boat and a prawn trawler owned by local fisherman
James Day and run under the ‘Whitsunday Wild’ brand in conjunction with Fishi.
“We promote our own product but
we buy and source as much again from local fishermen in the area,” Matt said,
adding the business also supplies local restaurants.“The prawn trawler goes out for
two weeks at a time and comes back with not just prawns but long-tail bugs
(Moreton Bay bugs), blue swimmer crabs, Queensland scallops, cuttlefish and
octopus.”Fishi, which is a member of the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s ‘Reef Guardian’ program, also trades
in an abundance of different fish, as well as crayfish, lobster and scampi.
“This is a new venture for us and
we are very excited,” Matt continued. “If things go well we will
certainly look at adding additional items to the menu. We have just started
doing a lunch pack for $18, which is going well on the island and might also
work on the mainland. “We just want to keep doing what
we’ve done since we started our business and that’s delivering amazing seafood
product direct to the customer’s door.” The fresh, ready-to-eat seafood
platters (cooked and prepared) that can be ordered through Food Porter include
the following (prices are per person).
For More Information Visit : http://foodporter.com.au/
For More Information Visit : http://foodporter.com.au/