Rockliff Seafoods

01/04/2026

The excitement is building for Easter with the crew at Rockliff unloading gorgeous fresh Mooloolaba Eastern King Prawns off the Sadie Reeves this morning!

The sun was out and the prawns were next-level, so our factory manager Richian whipped out her phone and started recording!! 🤩

These are the guys you’re supporting when you buy your seafood local! All along Mooloolaba Spit, we’ve worked hard together to keep the prices stable, so they can stay affordable for the community this Easter! ♥️

We can’t wait to see you here! ♥️🦀🦐🦞🐙🦑 Lots of love from the Rockliffs! ♥️

31/03/2026

Open all Easter for your seafood feasts! Except for Easter Monday! Thanks for all your support! ♥️🦐🦪🐟🦀🦞🦑🐙

27/03/2026

It’s more important than ever to support your local seafood businesses!

You guys, our local community, are the ones that saved us during Covid.

Eerily, we’re seeing a similar, yet unprecedented, situation again.

The fact that a war in the Middle East can affect our food supply chain so drastically and quickly is scary.

But we can make a difference by supporting our local businesses and keeping them alive!

The Mooloolaba fishing boats are out at sea, and there will be plenty of seafood for Easter!

So let’s step up and support our own local fishermen and farmers, so we can ensure our own food security for the future.

Whether it be our famous Mooloolaba Ocean King Prawns, wild-caught tuna, or our local spanner crab, come and visit the team and enjoy our seafood this Easter!

Lots of love from the Rockliff family and all our local fishing families ♥️🦐

12/02/2026

You may have noticed we've been a little quiet on the Rockliff Seafoods social pages lately, but for a very special reason. ♥️

I swapped the wharves of Mooloolaba with the shores of East Devonport in Tassie, to spend some time with my 94yo grandfather, Peter Rockliff, as we started collating the family's history. 😍

As many of you know, the Rockliff Seafoods family (Neville and Helen Rockliff and four children) originally hailed from Tassie where our grandparents Peter and Una Rockliff (Neville's parents) founded Petuna, nearly 80 years ago!

What started as couta and flathead fishing for Peter, and Una selling the catch from the back deck, Petuna eventually grew and expanded into a world-renowned and diverse seafood legacy.

Looking through the history of our grandparents’ rise and growth in the Tasmanian and Australian seafood industries, (culminating in an OAM each, for services to the Tasmanian Fishing Industry, and being inducted into National Seafood Industry Hall of Fame in 2017) has been inspiring, to say the least. 💖

It's been an absolutely mesmerising experience, not only diving into the archives and retracing the steps with my daughter and my Pop, of those who came before us, but to also see how the larger family continues to evolve with the retained retail operation, Peter and Una Seafoods, still in East Devonport.

With many family members still heavily involved in this business, and the heartbreaking loss of our Nan in September, Pop is still active in the business every day and has just recently completed construction on a new processing facility for Peter and Una Seafoods!

And anyone who knows my Pop, will know his plans don't stop there! 😂 We had the most amazing and special experience, and I left with a new-found awe of the man I'm so proud to call our Pop! 💖

So as we journeyed home to Mooloolaba, this chance to reflect on our family's past has filled us with pride, inspiration and excitement for the future! 🤗💖

And here's a fun fact for you: We believe Pop still holds the Tasmanian record for the most flathead caught single-handedly, with only two handlines, in one day! Three-quarters of a tonne he reeled in by himself that day! What a catch! 🤩

Pictured (from left): Vanessa Rockliff (me), Peter Rockliff, and two of his great granddaughters Mary and Lucy. And I couldn't resist a pic with my cheeky nephew George Rockliff, who also works at Peter and Una Seafoods! 😂

29/12/2025

Hope you’re stocking up on your seafood favs to usher in the New Year! 🍾🦐🤩🦞 🥂

27/12/2025

We know that the community is well and truly supporting us when we were so busy, we didn’t have time to take one Christmas picture! 😬🤣

Wow! You left us speechless! 🤩

From the regulars we see every week, to the newbies visiting or pre-ordering for the first time, you arrived in droves and supported your local businesses and fishermen.

Spending your hard-earned money on local, quality, wild-caught fresh seafood! 😍

The fact that we have so much amazing seafood right here on the Sunshine Coast means we don’t have to purchase food that’s travelled for miles or has been imported.

It’s right here. At your local wharves, or the hinterland farms, or the breweries dotted right across the coast.

We are so blessed to live in such an abundant, sustainable part of the world.

And it’s you, the community, who make those conscious choices!

And from what we could see, you guys already know how great our seafood is here!

Just like the sea, our queues ebbed and flowed (there was a lot of flowing from 5am until around 10am), there were a couple of mix-ups that we fixed as quickly as we could, and there was lots of running!

But my gosh, you guys were sensational! 🤩🥰

The patience and understanding, the orderly way everyone moved through, and the happiness and joy for Christmas, was such a buzz for our team! 🌊

We thank each and every one of you for making an extremely hectic and stressful time, so much more enjoyable for our Rockliff family of staff! 🙏

And finally, none of this happens without you, our customers and supporters, showing up, buying local and spreading the word!

We cannot thank you enough, how much it means to see your smiling faces at the shop and at our pre-order counter in those days before the big Christmas Day! 🥰

We hope you all ate too much, got your afternoon nap, and had plenty of leftovers. And most of all, we hope you enjoyed our seafood! 😍

Thank you for all the love and here’s to an amazing new year! 🤩🌊🦐🦀🦞

All our love from The Rockliff Family ♥️

17/12/2025

LAST CHANCE: Claire and Angelina just called it! Our Christmas pre-orders close tomorrow, Thursday, Dec 18! 🦐🦞

The official closing time was 12pm, but we'll extend it until the end of the day to make sure everyone's organised their Christmas seafood!

This is the quickest and easiest way to collect your Christmas seafood, with a separate counter, no lines, and your seafood order all packaged up and ready to go!

The only thing missing is a big red bow on the box! 😂😉

Don't stress if you miss out though, the retail shop will be brimming with fresh seafood and will be open from 4am until 4pm on Christmas Eve!

Lots of love from the Rockliffs! 💖🦐

Hard-copy pre-order form:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f-YWqmDp35_OEVhwornVPTrGxTnGyVEU/view?usp=sharing

Online pre-order form:
https://form.jotform.com/253177984184066

14/12/2025

Our thoughts and prayers to all those affected by this horrific tragedy.
Our hearts break for you. 💔

All our love from
The Rockliff Family ♥️

14/12/2025

Sobering thought to know what our fishermen go through every day when they’re working. From freak waves, machinery breakdowns, to dangerous weather and high-risk equipment, it’s all in a day’s work for our guys. Total respect ✊

30/11/2025

You wanna run straight to Rockliff for your Christmas seafood this year! 🦀

Because we set up a separate counter to the shop for pick-up, you can be literally in and out with your box of seafood delights! 🦐

Everyone who pre-orders comes back year-after-year, as it is so much easier and less stress!

Orders close on Thursday, December 18, and numbers are limited this year, so don’t leave it till the last minute! You can also place your order in-store!

The link to the online form is here:
https://form.jotform.com/253177984184066

The link to the hard-copy form is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xPXfin0uh-MEv_JKLG7qVTZF6eMAFmGL/view?usp=drivesdk

(PS: For anyone who might not know, if you can’t highlight the links, screenshot the post, and you can then highlight and copy the link from the photo into your web browser 🤫😉)
From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for supporting local families and fishermen 🙏🙌 Love from the Rockliff family! ♥️♥️

Please click the link to complete this form.

23/11/2025

And finally, the pre-order forms have arrived! 💥

You can find links to both a hard-copy version and an online version in our bio!

For the first time, we’ve attempted an online submission form, so we hope you love it! But make sure to please tell us of any glitches you come across! We’re fishermen, not tech gurus! 🤣🤣

We’re looking forward to you enjoying our amazing fresh local seafood! And with our pre-order forms, life is even easier!

Our counter is near the factory, and you’ll most likely be in and out in less than 10 minutes!! 😜 how’s that for time-saving efficiency!

Just remember, we have a limited number of orders, so get your order in quick!

Any queries, you can call the shop on 0460 795 083 or email [email protected] ♥️ Lots of love from the Rockliff Family

Online form link: https://form.jotform.com/253177984184066

PDF hard-copy form link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xPXfin0uh-MEv_JKLG7qVTZF6eMAFmGL/view?usp=drivesdk