Karumba Prawns

[@stevegibbons4639]

Gee this gives me itchy feet! I saw a few old salts on board. I'd love to have a crack now that I'm at the back end of a life time in shipping but never been to sea!

[@DennisSmyth-j8e]

Spent nearly a yr onboard KFV boat the gove Scorpio in 1982, great times but we earned every cent we made . If you didnt fit in you didnt make it, got to be able to adapt.

[@alistairmills7608]

I eat 'em almost every day. Thank you. These are beautiful wild caught prawns. Namaste.

[@beverleydillon4275]

Amazing, Hard Work but a time of my life I'll never forget working out there. You are champions

[@OOHYEH]

Brought back memories when I was on board chasing tiger prawns

[@Colin_In_VK]

Great video :-)

[@richardrich5731]

Good times in my life doing this for a living. Tricky

[@7884golfguru]

I was there helping build the Zinc refinery as a fly in fly out chippie ,gets hot up there

[@mushroomon]

The united states is being flooded with imports pond shrimps. As a fisherman i agree with wild caught shrimps.nice video felt like home

[@CarbonNeutralAU]

Great film guys. We are proud to be partnering with you on such an important project!

[@bruceshepherd-q6r]

Aussie Prawns.

[@Davrosss]

What a beautiful product 💯

[@davidfrost7983]

When I was a boy in the 1950's I remember my Dad's favorite swearword was karumba. He never swore

[@philhatherell3711]

We buy a frozen 5kg box and crumb them up at our leisure. Its great to see this film on where our food comes from and that it is in good hands.

[@pelautperikanan7578]

hope to join them soon..

[@alistairmills7608]

Gosh they are delicious. Eat them every week. Thank you to all at Karumba Prawns for harvesting them from the wild.

[@Kevin-oh2je]

On the northern side of Mornington Island is a bar...a beer selling hut Walk down the dirt track, south, behind it for 500-750 m and you will notice a tree appears to be in the middle of the track Where the track turns right (West) there is a can of coke buried at the base of that tree

[@rodellis1686]

Why didn't they show the catch.....Because of the bi catch is bullshit.

[@scottmcchesney6187]

Agreed. I did a couple of years up there in the 80's. Bananas not so bad but our Tiger prawn bi-catch was shameful. Tonnes of discard per night for 200 kg of prawns. I'd hoped something has changed!

[@2watertight]

@@scottmcchesney6187it has changed, I was there all through the 80’s. Today there is not only turtle excluders but also a fish excluder that allows the bulk of trash fish to escape

[@jeffreyflynn2805]

My father told me stories of when they first started trawling the gulf and finding banana prawns and not being able to sell them because the didn’t go red when they cooked them stories of trying to cook them with red food colouring or stain them after cooking. All because people wouldn’t accept prawns that were not red

[@deanfulford69]

Wow that's crazy

[@jeffreyflynn2805]

@@deanfulford69 my old man had lots of interesting stories from those days, was no market for squid so just dumping whole cod ends of calamari over the side, full nets of mud crabs off west irianjia, first discovery of the endevorii or debs as he called them, dad was a full master mariner not just a skipper and brilliant navigator he used to lead the southeast Qld fleet up the coast to do the gulf season. I loved spending Christmas school holidays on the trawlers based out of Karumba or T I

[@Kevin-oh2je]

On a Raptis boat, 1993, we hauled up a yacht tender in the net

[@maqsoodahmed1651]

My very big wish in my life is, , to tour the places that i love, , i hope someday, , god will provide it to me💖

[@captaincaveman3025]

RIP Mathew Carreras

[@alistairmills7608]

They are magnificent in a garlic prawn risotto on a bed of radish micro-greens.

[@RUHappyATM]

So that's where Banana prawns come from.

[@keithwatkins708]

Sad the % crew gets paid on all trawlers works out to be such a low hourly rate when all hours of refit / steaming /not catching are takin into account.

[@AlecL]

How much do you reckon a deckhand would make in a season?

[@Top-Jimmy]

'' They are one of the tastiest Prawns that one could get '' - Darn straight they are. Im retired now, Spent my time up there back in the 80's. Stay safe guys... kill the pig!

[@karencarroll8888]

you would use drones now, to survey for mud boils,? yes ?

[@kizzjd9578]

Cant go high enough or cover the distance that a manned aircraft can. They will work but you would be going backwards.

[@Top-Jimmy]

@@kizzjd9578 Thats not entirely correct mate. There are a lot of long range Commercial Drones available to suit a specific purpose. Of course they use them, It beats sitting up top in the A frame looking for boils like the old days.

[@kizzjd9578]

@@Top-Jimmy yes there are but unless your drone is larger than 1m3, you cant go further than 500m before you lose sight. Out on the water, bvlos and evlos cannot be achieved. I highly doubt the boat crew have their aviation irex license or trained on type rated rpas over 25kg.

[@Top-Jimmy]

@@kizzjd9578 Who needs a 25kg Quad to find em? 400ft ALT is ample if you're playing by the rules anyway, Especially if your paired up. I've been up there since 1985, Things were a lot different. Retired two years back. A mate of mine kills it using a couple of drones.

[@stevepierce3509]

And as an EX Partner of a cook on these boats she was given grief to no end by the crew on the boats and harassed no end to the point of getting off the Boat in Darwin !!!! Get your shit sorted as these boats attract Rubbish people. ! Plain and Simple.

[@randykatsoolis2147]

Great clip but I have to say the worst prawns I’ve eaten were purchased in Karumba.