A remote Indigenous community has used the weekly barge service in Arnhem Land to ship out 1 tonne of Kakadu plums for the first time.
Maningrida has been celebrating the milestone after wrapping up a record harvest of the native plum, known locally as man-morlak.
Clem Bresson from the local Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation said the plums had been sold to a wholesaler in Darwin.
"It's been a real community effort. We had about 150 people from the community harvesting these plums," he told ABC Rural.
"We're very excited about this. It is the first time [we've sent plums on the barge] and it's quite a good result."
This is just the second year that Maningrida has sold Kakadu plums commercially.
It follows other successful business milestones in the community, such as selling locally caught fish, mud crabs and red bush apples.
Mr Bresson said the community harvested 1.5 tonnes of the wild plum across a season that lasted just over a month.
The fruit not barged to customers remained in town for community use, he said.
"We've actually been experimenting making a few products out here such as Kakadu plum powder and a Kakadu plum cordial."
Communities such as Maningrida, Mr Bresson said, were starting to reap the benefits of the rising demand for bush tucker.
"The sale of these plums ... it's a massive increase in income for people living out bush," he said.
"Most of the money has gone straight to the people who harvested the fruit.
"It's creating jobs in Maningrida, and pretty much all of the money [has gone] straight to Indigenous people in the region."
The community is now hoping next year's harvest can be even bigger.
Maningrida is home to two types of Kakadu plum trees, including a shorter shrub-like tree that is unique to the region.
The Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation is one of the inaugural members of the Northern Australia Aboriginal Kakadu Plum Alliance.
