The original farm was founded on Cane land at the mouth of the Logan River, South East Queensland by Noel Herbst in 1986 and remains a family-owned business. GCMA has two farms: the soon-to-be-opened Mossman farm and the other near the Gold Coast in South East Queensland.

Peter Regeling, a 27-year employee with the company, who is the project manager for the Mossman farm, said they were hoping to load the water within two to three weeks and officially open a week or two later.
“We are currently working on the opening, but have yet to set a date,” he said.

“We deliver our product to supermarket chains such as Coles, IGA and Costco. But we will not be selling our product at our Mossman location,” he said.

The prawns are marketed as Gold Coast Tiger Prawns and are one of Australia’s most recognised prawns having won Gold Medals in 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002 at Sydney’s Royal Fine Food Show.

In 2010 GCMA was the first Black Tiger Prawn farm in the world to fully stock with juveniles from domesticated brood stock rather than juveniles bred from wild caught brood stock.

“We are extremely proud of what we have achieved over the years and the benefit of having two farms in different geographic locations allows GCMA to supply the market with fresh prawns from November to May,” he said.

The farm at Mossman is the most Northern Prawn farm in Australia and the warmer climate means that it is the first farm to start harvesting in November to mid-January.  

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