Kyeema Seafoods has been family owned for over 20 years…
Named after the family’s Blue-Eye Trevalla long-line boat, the bricks and mortar store began when David Wilson saw an opening to supply premium quality seafood to Launceston’s best restaurants, cafes and takeaways. After a decade of long-line fishing for Blue Eye Trevalla on the Continental shelf off Tasmania’s East Coast, David opened the wholesale and retail business in January 2001.
Now owned by his son-in-law and daughter, Zac and Kristy Langford, the business has gone from strength to strength. Having worked in the business for 16 and 20 years respectively, the duo were well placed to take over ownership of the business in 2019. With his background as a fine dining chef and love of recreational fishing, Zac has embraced the business and made it his own. He eats, sleeps and breathes seafood. Zac is there every day ensuring that Kyeema only sells the freshest, highest quality seafood available.
Kyeema supports local fishermen as they buy directly from boats and aquaculture farms. The seafood is then processed on site and this is what sets them apart from grocers, supermarkets and seafood handlers. They sell fresh, local, sustainable seafood, stocking their windows based on what’s fresh and seasonal. They are the preferred supplier of all the best local sushi stores in Northern Tasmania.
The kitchen whips up a wide variety of ready to cook and ready to eat products. This includes such favourites as curried scallop pies, fishermen’s pies, seafood crepes, salmon patties and crayfish pate. The seafood platters are incredibly popular - overwhelmingly so at times of the year like Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Valentines Day!
Well known for their fresh cooked Crayfish, Zac and Kristy truly believe that their family recipe makes theirs the best tasting cooked Crayfish in Tasmania.
community engagement
Shark Industry Data Collection program (SIDaC)
As part of Kyeema Seafoods commitment to fisheries sustainability we have joined the industry lead Shark Industry Data Collection program (SIDaC). SIDaC has been developed by the Southern Shark Industry Alliance (SSIA) to collect data on the sharks caught by the shark boats in southern Australian waters. Numbered tags are put on some of the Gummy and School Shark on board the FVs Iron Maiden and Mustelus and when the sharks are filleted our staff collect data from these fish.
We collect lengths, sex and remove the vertebrae from the tagged sharks before they are filleted. The vertebrae are sent to a laboratory where they are cut to revel growth rings. These rings can be counted under a microscope and, like tree rings, indicate the age of the sharks. The data from the sharks we measure are used by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and CSIRO in stock assessments to ensure that future catches are sustainable.