The co-operative is Western Australia’s biggest rock lobster processor and has secured a $3.5 million loan through the Government’s Co-operative Loan Scheme to build the facility at Welshpool.
When completed, it will be Australia’s biggest rock lobster holding tank facility, enabling air freight of fresh rock lobster into China to reduce the time from ‘catch to plate’.
Western rock lobster is a sought-after ecologically sustainable product, with exports from WA worth $443 million in 2014-15.
