Prawn Trawling F V Northern Pearl NPF Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

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@peterhoulis1184 11 ай бұрын

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

@adrianbeyer4219 6 ай бұрын

Memories i was a deck hand on the brisbane pearl 1997 ,will never forget the crew, april may and june ,hope to get back to karumba one day

@Kevin-oh2je 3 ай бұрын

I worked a season on George Michael K out of Learmonth for Kailis with Parsons, Carr nd Co, 1982 Awesome

@justintaylor2129 11 ай бұрын

I’d love to see how you guys sort the prawns from the by-catch.

@CaptjBelk 11 ай бұрын

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.

@CaptjBelk 11 ай бұрын

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.

@justintaylor2129 11 ай бұрын

@@CaptjBelk I see in Gulf of Mexico probably has to many fish that don’t float plus we have areas of muddy boat.

@CaptjBelk 11 ай бұрын

@@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!

@DamienCummings-u4k Жыл бұрын

Does Ross Boot still head out in the Vulcan? I did a couple of seasons with him.

@CaptjBelk 11 ай бұрын

Bootsy and his bro don’t drive anymore but they own the 3rd biggest fleet called Austfish.

@bobbuckby9216 8 ай бұрын

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.

@DamienCummings-u4k 7 ай бұрын

Is Neil (1st mate), Tanya (cook) & Greg (engineer) still about?

@yandenuts 3 ай бұрын

I worked on FV Bootlegger with Ross as Capt. Frenchman as Engineer. 1992. Best boat I ever worked on, as I got to drive with the gear down and I was only a deckie. Fished off Broome for the second time it had been fished. Monsters on the back deck. Talked to Ross a couple years back, still married to Margie..

@cristianconte5286 Жыл бұрын

Hi, how are you? Are you the captain of the ship?

@CaptjBelk Жыл бұрын

Engineer on this one mate.

@captaincaveman3025 5 ай бұрын

RIP Mathew Carreras

@mushroomon 9 ай бұрын

What yall price per pound?

@CaptjBelk 9 ай бұрын

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.

@mushroomon 9 ай бұрын

@@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

@mushroomon 9 ай бұрын

That's the shrimps size from small to big .

@mushroomon 9 ай бұрын

There a video on KZbin 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.

@CaptjBelk 8 ай бұрын

@@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.