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Our Story
Global Seafoods is now more than 30 years old but our involvement in the Australian seafood industry goes back to the 1950’s when Robert “Bob” Rylands and his father James started fishing for famous Western Australian Rock Lobster.
After 25 years fishing for lobster, scallops and wetline fishing along the Western Australian central north coast, Bob and his wife Judith sold the fishing operation and moved their young family South to Perth.
For the next 10 years, Bob and Judy ran a large suburban hotel and restaurant plus a number of small businesses, but Bob couldn’t stay away from the sea, and he found himself back trading seafood for a number of local producers to the USA, and the developing Asian markets.
Within a few years, Bob established his own seafood trading company, Global Seafoods Distributors Australia PTY LTD.
Humble beginnings
From A Small Fish to a Global Player
Initially, Bob travelled up and down the West Coast sourcing seafood products and eventually spent long periods of time overseas helping small seafood producers to catch, process and add value to their resources. Nowadays these producers are some of the biggest in the world and continue to work closely with us.
In 1996, Bob’s son Kim joined Global Seafoods and ten years later after the sudden passing of Bob, Kim took over as General Manager. In 2016, Kim’s son James joined the company as Marketing Co-ordinator.
After very humble beginnings Global Seafoods now has a full-time staff of 23 passionate professionals around Australia.
Global Seafoods now offers top quality products and services to the Australian Food Service market with premium products for chefs, and the national retail market with a large range of easy-to-prepare retail products in our attractive new packaging.
The Global Seafoods team have enjoyed strong growth over the years, and we look forward many more years of providing quality, service, innovation and growth.
Our Mission
Responsibly Providing Seafood Now and into the Future
With over 30 years of experience in the industry, our passion fuels our commitment to meeting the expanding market and customer demand for healthy, responsibly sourced, and high-quality seafood.
We believe in the sustainable sourcing of seafood through the careful stewardship of our precious marine resources. We are driven by playing our role in fostering a thriving, healthy planet for future generations. Global Seafoods Australia is recognised as a leader in the Australian seafood industry.
Our tactic is straightforward; we leverage our industry position for good around the globe by harnessing our unique relationships, synergies of scale and dedication to achieving excellence, all while continually innovating and seeking fresh long term sustainable opportunities.
As custodians of the sea, our responsibility extends to:
- Producing healthy and accessible seafood worldwide,
- Building a strong and supported workforce and seafood community,
- Delivering reliable and consistent future supply of seafood.
Our shared values are fundamental to our operation and culture - they identify who we are. These values underline and guide our commitment, attitude, work ethic, and the quality of products we offer.
100% Australian Family Owned
we remain a 100% Australian family-owned business, proudly for Australians, by Australians.
