Trawling for prawns in the gulf of Carpentaria, at the start of the N.P.F banana prawn season onboard the Raptis vessel Northern Pearl, that i was engineer on.
I worked for kailis bros in learmonth in 96 as a beach tractor driver , apart from the pay it was an awesome job , ive never eaten so much seafood in all my life lol
Any bycatch comes out of the hopper onto the conveyor belt belt. You can then choose to pick bycatch or pick prawns, depending on which there is more of. The are chutes on the side with fast running water that either direct it over the side or into another hopper. When there is fish mixed in this type of prawn we will have 4 deckies picking the fish on the conveyor.
The hopper is also specially designed. Most fish have an airbag and will float. Prawns/shrimp don’t and will fall to the bottom onto the conveyor. Once all the prawns are out, you drop all the water out and then run the fish over the side with the conveyor belts.
@@justintaylor2129we still get plenty of fish that don’t float as well. We actually use spotter planes to find mud boil ups to find the banana prawns. If you’re bagging mud, your gear ain’t setup right, or you ain’t got enough power for your gear!
Ross and Ian Boot, ahh the memories back in the eighties. We nicked named them left and right boot. I worked or them on the Roper K a long time ago, 1985 from memory. Then for MG Kalis, after that KFV and then Grey funnel line. Did a stint on the Lombardo boats to, Ocean producer and Ocean Explorer. The boot boys first boat was Bootlegger.
That season $2.38/kg for 21/30 bulk pack(13kg) box, $6.68 for 5kg box 10/20. First unload was 37,880kg in 3.5 days. We did 80,000kg in the first 2 unloads.
@@CaptjBelk wow that's good .as a commercial fishermen in the US we got hit hard on prices .but I'm a smaller boat .our shrimp counts are different. It's like 80/100 ,70/80 ,60/,70 ,50/60 ,40/50,36/40,31/35,26/30,21/25,15/20,...10/15.they range all prices but last year we avrege 60 cents across the board .they blaim imports .fishing good but no prices
There a video on RU-vid on the kinda shrimping we do .casting Cajun Louisiana shrimping.some still double rig but we don't freeze them like that .the ones that has freezer freeze them in sacks.
@@mushroomonthere are two big companies in Australia which own half the boats in this fleet. They have a deal with the two biggest supermarket chains, to supply the catch of banana prawns. If there is a huge season and a lot of boats get over 100 tons, then the price crashes and heaps of crew get pissed off and don’t come back. A lot of work for fuck all $$ some years. We have two seasons, for bananas and tiger prawns. We can get big money for tiger prawns as it’s nearly all export to Japan and China. We finger lay the prawns in 3kg cartons(3x3kg in a 10kg master carton). We can get really good money $45 per kg +. We only work nights for tigers, and it’s not as hectic. More normal style trawling.
