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The Queensland Seafood Industry Association is involved with seafood festivals throughout Queensland. In 2008 we are involved in the following events:
Redcliffe Seafood Festival 2008
We are pleased to acknowledge our fantastic Sponsors for the QSIA Food Stall for this year's Redcliffe Seafood Festival. The QSIA feature fish, Broad-Barred Spanish Mackerel, fresh from North Queensland, has been donated by Lounds Fresh Seafoods/ Marina Fresh Townsville, A Raptis & Son, Comsilie and movers of seafood, Charter Freightlines & Storage Pty Ltd.
River to Reef Festival
A sincere thank you to our great sponsorship team! Your support for our industry and this promotion of the Mackay regions fabulous local seafood is much appreciated.
2008 Ekka Report
Promoting Queensland Seafood was the theme of our exhibit at this year’s Ekka at the RNA Showgrounds in Brisbane. For 10 days in front of more than half a million visitors from the 7th to the 16th August we were asked one common question – where can I get Queensland seafood. The response from Queenslanders was fantastic and overwhelming and as an industry we have some way to go to better promote the best seafood in the world – Queensland seafood.
We provided almost 10 000 showbags promoting Queensland seafood and many thousands of seafood posters to children through to dad wanting one for the boat as well as school children and teachers ready to use them in the classroom.
Our Taste of Queensland cooking demonstrations were also a huge success as the photos below highlight the interest from Ekka patrons.
Our many thanks go to our sponsors and volunteers who without their support we would not have been able to conduct such a successful event. To our members who supported this event, a big thank you and we are very grateful for your support.
To Alison Alexander and Peter Howard from the Taste of Queensland we say thanks for your fantastic support in helping us promote locally wild caught Queensland seafood. We now the Ekka patrons enjoyed it and we hope you did as much as we did.
To Cathy and Di from the Ekka, thank you for your support and assistance throughout the event, we appreciate it.
Finally, congratulations to Marie White from Strathpine as the winner of our holiday giveaway, the seafood voucher and surfing lessons.
We look forward to returning next year bigger and better in 2009.
Hervey Bay Seafood Festival 2008
The 2008 Fraser Lions Hervey Bay Seafood Festival was a magnificent success with a capacity crowd of 20,000 basking in winter sunshine and enjoying Queensland biggest seafood picnic in the Urangan Harbour parkland.
Tonnes of fresh from the ocean, Hervey Bay seafood was consumed by the thousands of Fraser Coast resident and visitors seen relaxing with family and friends, whilst being entertained by local musicians and a variety of seafood industry presentations throughout the day.
A sincere thank you to, our fabulous team of sponsors for your unwavering support of the festival over the years. This year’s festival has surpassed all expectations and I am looking forward to our team continuing to meet the future challenges to grow an even greater, signature event for the Fraser Coast and the seafood industry.
Many thanks to the army of volunteers who give their energy and expertise in making every event the “best ever”.
We will be back again, celebrating the Sea on Sunday August 16, 2009 with new attractions, more of Queensland’s saltwater seafood and the opportunity to showcase our region to visitors from all over Australia. The festival attracted tourists from interstate which shows the whole region as well as the local Hervey Bay economy benefits from this event.
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