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WIN at the 2009 Taste SA Pavillion Royal Adelaide Show

At the 2009 SA Seafood Awards, secretary Tracy Hill announced the main WIN projects for the next two years

One was to hold the 2011 Seafood Awards in Port Lincoln, and the other was to represent the Seafood industry at the Royal Adelaide Show

Ferguson Australia stepped in to partner with WIN as we were unable to secure product this year to participate in the Yellow Brick road. However we are confident that this will be a reality next year.

The stall was decorated with the Big fish from the Awards night and displayed quality photographs, brochures, prize draws and recipe books for sale. Fergusons sold their condiments and specialty foods.

WIN's plan was to provide information to the public, but this plan was sunk on day one as visitors to the stall expected to try seafood. A quick rethink took place it was decided to give the public what they wanted. A quick trip to Meningie to get fish and cooking equipment rescued what could have been a disaster.

The gamble paid off and tastings of fish on bread were sold for $1 each. In addition Fergusons made available some of their lobster and lemon infused oils which when added to some egg mayonnaise made a fantastic dressing for the tasty fish.

Customers were impressed with the result with over 7,000 tastings cooked from a single electric frying pan. It added to the workload but the response was terrific.

In addition it gave us a captive audience to talk about the industry, and issues affecting it. Nathan Bicknell from SEANET attended with some interesting support material. Brochures from several industry groups, FRDC, MSC and Wildcatch were on display. WIN aslo produced stickers and gave away ballons, pencils and rulers. Several recipe books were sold.

Stall costs, wages, cooking supplies and most expenses were covered by the sales which means that the balance WIN bank account can still be used for future projects.

It was very tiring but rewarding and Taste SA was definately excited that we represented the SA Seafood Industry. We will be holding a meeting to decide if we do something similar next year or not.

However it did prove once again that the South Australian public wants to have access to local seafood.

Our major project for 2008 has been to purchase all remaining copies of “The Seafood Story” and provide them to 157 South Australian primary schools.

The Workboot Series is a collection of high quality, innovative books featuring Australian farming industries and the story of food and clothing from the farm to the supermarket. This series was published by the Kondinin Group.

WIN also purchased the remaining stock of “Workboot Series - Seafood Resource Kit” that accompanies the Seafood story book. This Resource Kit includes ready-to-use lesson notes, activity pages and resource sheets for seven of the eight key learning areas.

The lucky schools who receive these will be encouraged to use the “Seafood Resource Kit” as part of their curriculum.

This huge undertaking was only possible with the funds raised at the 2007 South Australian Seafood Awards and the generous assistance of the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
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Workbook Series - The Seafood Book

Many workshops have been held for our members including: “Capitalising on the Talents of SA Fishing Women”, “Empowering Fishing Women to Capitalise on Networks” and Several workshops on Working with the Media and Corporate Governance.

Organised training days on meeting roles and procedures.

WIN members have been involved in organising industry displays and historical projects on fishing in their regions

The State Seafood Industry Awards program have been established

WIN Seafood Cookbooks have been collated and printed

SAWIN coordinated the South Australian Maritime Museum “Catch of the Day” and also participated in the Basin Bytes website project.

We were involved with the Living Health project “Eat well, live well”

Actively involved in World Environment Day using the theme of the “River Murray and Lakes and Coorong”.

WIN has cooked and provided seafood tastings to the public, up to 8,000 people At SARDI open days.

Lakes and Coorong WIN group catered for the 2003 Regional Tourism Awards in the Limestone Coast region and were involved in the “Coorong Good Food” program cooking fish and assisting the Meningie Area School students for tastings at the Royal Adelaide Show

Some of the projects organised by WIN are: Bureau of Rural Sciences study “Understanding the Roles of Fishing Women” and “Seafood Women Embrace Best Practice Decision-making – “A calling of Seafood Women to Action”

Some WIN members have since gone on to be active participants in their associations and peak industry bodies and industry women have won RIRDC Rural Woman of the Year in SA.