Quality control is vital with strict attention given to correct handling and transport of the catch along the chain. Once caught, the Southern Rock Lobster is placed in live holding facilities on the catch vessel. On arrival at Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island, the catch immediately undergoes quality inspection and hand-grading by experienced staff before re-tanking in the Kingscote factory tanking facility. The lobster remains in the tanking facilities, monitored daily by experienced staff, until they are packed for shipment

Ferguson Australia’s holding facilities and feeding tanks on Kangaroo Island and in Adelaide feature advanced technologies designed especially to maintain the delicate flavour and texture of premium lobster from the ocean to the plate.

The quality-endorsed control systems extend from the fishing operations to the processing and packaging stages, with daily monitoring and care by experienced staff.

All Ferguson’s fishing vessels are Clean Green accredited.

The Clean Green program is a training & accreditation system providing “pot to plate” environmental, food & workplace safety standards with independently 3^rd party auditing of practices.

The Southern Rock Lobster industry’s highly successful “Clean Green” environmental management program, has a won a United Nations 2005 World Environment Day Award – in the Business Enterprise Awards section of the Environmental Best Practice Program.

Believed to be a world first for the Rock Lobster industry, the Clean Green program has been enthusiastically embraced by licence holders in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania , with already 238 industry members trained and 133 vessels independently certified as “Clean & Green”.

The program ensures industry sustainability – with all rubbish & oil discarded responsibly (eg - no straps on bait packaging)