South Australia’s Spencer Gulf prawn fishery will undergo the world’s most rigorous environmental assessment for fisheries in the hope of becoming the first sustainable prawn fishery in Australia.

In short: Australian shipping company Sea Swift announced a suspension of its service supporting fishing trawlers last year, which means prawn fishermen in the Gulf of Carpentaria are bringing in less ...

A major decline in the catch of the banana prawn [shrimp], Penaeus (Fenneropenaeus) merguiensis, occurred over a six-year period in the Weipa region of the northeastern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.

The Logan River has been closed to commercial and recreational crustacean fishing after an outbreak of the virus in wild prawns. Restrictions are in place between Jabiru and Luscombe Weirs in the west ...