While the total catch will fall well short of last year’s unprecedented 3168 tonnes, industry figures remain upbeat. “This year is down about one third from 2015 – which was an extraordinary season – ...

Recreational fishermen in the Northern Territory are venting concern over recent fish kills, which they say are being caused by prawn trawlers. The Nhulunbuy Fishing Club, on the north east Arnhem ...

NT Police made a 125 nautical mile trek to provide urgent assistance to a prawn trawler located at Cobourg Peninsula after officers were notified of a crew member ‘engaging in violent conduct’. The ...

Far North Queensland’s prawn fleet has been slashed from 52 to just 29 trawlers after Australia’s biggest operator collapsed amid crippling industry pressures. Only 29 prawn trawlers are operating in ...

Austral Fisheries chief executive David Carter said most of the estimated 4000-tonne catch would go to supermarkets to be snapped up by eager prawn devotees. Austral, which has 11 boats, is among the ...

PRAWN lovers are mistakenly feeling fishy about ocean-caught prawns in the wake of the white spot disease in the city’s north, fishermen say. Trawlers from the Gold Coast Fishing Cooperative said they ...

A break in cyclones and heavy rain in the Gulf of Carpentaria bode well for the northern prawn fishery after 52 trawlers set off late last month. Australian Fisheries Management Authority chief ...

Only 29 prawn trawlers are operating in the Gulf of Carpentaria since the banana prawn season opened on April 1 compared to more than 50 usually after A Raptis and Sons which ran 14 prawn trawlers in ...