Tasmanian Commercial Divers Association in Hobart, Tasmania | Non-profit organisation

Tasmanian Commercial Divers Association

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Address: 117 Sandy Bay Road, Sandy Bay Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: https://employment.seafoodjobs.org/commercialdive

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24.01.2022 Check out the coverage on urchins in today's Mercury!

20.01.2022 Simple Japanese sea urchin spaghetti! #EatMoreSeafood

18.01.2022 Urchin scrambled eggs? Gordon Ramsay says yes! He cooked up this delicious dish in Tassie recently for his new show #Uncharted. #EatMoreSeafood

18.01.2022 TCDA members recently participated in a trial ‘take all harvest’ of long-spined sea urchin between Marion Bay and Cape Hauy. Read the story from Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS below.

17.01.2022 In August 2020, the TCDA were part of a collaborative effort between the Handfish Conservation Project, and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS, working alongside DPIPWE (Fisheries Tasmania) to tackle one of the key issues threatening red handfish populations: habitat loss through urchin overgrazing. A team of TCDA divers removed an incredible 1276 kg (almost 17000 native urchins) across two sites where handfish were subsequently released. Although not all the urchins were of harvest quality, TCDA President Renison Bell commented that contributing to a good cause and helping red handfish populations was worth their effort.

17.01.2022 From Sunday's Mercury: And the good news is that the underwater world is looking really healthy out there right now. Particularly around St Helens, the sea urchins had been having a terrible impact on the kelp forests but divers have been systematically clearing them out for commercial scale and that has made a huge difference.

11.01.2022 Watch the full urchin diving video here to see us in action: https://vimeo.com/442576396 [3 minutes 58 seconds]

05.01.2022 The newly elected TCDA Committee held their inaugural meeting today. Thanks to Eastcoaster Tasmania for providing space. We have plenty of ideas for growing and improving the commercial dive industry further.

05.01.2022 Take a look below the surface as we harvest top-quality urchin. If long-spined sea urchin numbers are left unchecked, they threaten our natural Tasmanian marine ecosystem. The Tasmanian Commercial Divers are leading the way in managing the issue, with over 1000T harvested in the last 3 years, providing urchin roe (uni) to customers all over the world.

04.01.2022 Read more about Tasmania’s booming seafood delicacy: urchin.

02.01.2022 Tasmanian urchin roe and clams proved popular at the 2020 Delicious Awards last month! Congratulations to Renison Bell of 42 South Fishing Co and Dale Ridgers of George’s Bay Clams, whose products were named as State Winners and National Finalists. Listen to the full story here (10 minutes): https://www.abc.net.au//tas-count/seafood-awards/12272208... #EatMoreSeafood #KnowYourProducer

01.01.2022 Have you tried urchin? #EatMoreSeafood and support your community.

01.01.2022 In early May, the TCDA completed an all-size-harvest trial of the longspined sea urchin from the southern end of Marion Bay beach to Cape Huay. Sixteen divers covered 82 hectares over 13 days, and harvested a total of 34,716 kg of longspined sea urchin.