Oral Presentation Australian Society for Fish Biology & Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2026

Tasmanian Aboriginal Seafoods: cultural care in commercial fishery settings (144846)

Emma Lee 1
  1. Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

In 2022, the Land and Sea Aboriginal Corporation Tasmania (LSACT) signed a historic agreement with the Tasmanian Government to establish a commercial abalone fishery.  The business arm of LSACT, Tasmanian Aboriginal Seafoods, operates as a registered charity - an Australian first for abalone - and is dedicated to returning an iconic seafood back to Tasmanian tables while growing social justice programs of employment.  Leveraging 40,000 years of cultural practice of caring for sea country, Tasmanian Aboriginal Seafoods is innovating messages of provenance, conservation and culture within a commercial fishery to heal colonial harms.