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Abacus Fisheries

Established in the mid 1980s, Abacus Fisheries is an integrated fishing company involved in the catching, processing and marketing of premium seafood.

Located in World Heritage-listed Shark Bay, Abacus has undertaken to develop a business that operates to world's best practice in every aspect of its marine and land-based activities.

Owned and operated by the Jecks family, long-term residents of the Gascoyne region and staunch environmentalists, Abacus Fisheries is Australia’s leading supplier of blue swimmer crab and value-added crab products.

With its firm texture and sweet, clean taste, Shark Bay’s blue swimmer crabs are highly sought after by discerning buyers throughout the world. Abacus crab are harvested in a tightly controlled fishing environment and immediately sedated, cooked, graded, packed and blast frozen at the AQIS-approved processing facility ready for domestic and international export markets.