David Carter, chief executive officer Austral Fisheries

From deckhand to CEO David Carter has worked his entire career at Austral Fisheries or its predecessors. The company he now leads is at the cutting edge of navigating the challenging waters of sustainable primary production, commanding a fleet of high performance craft using environmentally responsible fishing practises, battling piracy on the high seas, building global seafood brands like Glacier51 and experimenting with the latest blockchain technology to prove the provenance of its catch.

In 2012 David was entered into the Australian fishing industry’s ‘Hall of Fame,’ and since then he’s lead Austral Fisheries to achieve independent sustainability certifications through the Marine Stewardship Council for Austral’s main fisheries, and was the driving force behind Austral becoming the first seafood company in the world to achieve Carbon Neutral certification through Australian Government’s Carbon Neutral certification