date:Jun 14, 2012
0 boats remaining in the northern prawn fishery, Mr Prendergast says the fleet has its work cut out.
Six thousand kilometres of coastline, we're allowed to fish from Cape York to the end of the Kimberleys, he said.
So each one of those bioregions - there's about nine of them in our fishery - had prawns in it, which is reasonably uncommon, because they're all environmentally driven.
To have widespread rainfall across all of those regions, and have them all produce, has been a really great outc