Celebrating Australia’s first National Prawn Day with sustainability

Saturday the 20 of March noticed Australia have a good time its first Nationwide Prawn Day which additionally coincided with the beginning of prawn season for each farmed and wild caught prawns.

However there’s additionally another excuse to have a good time Nationwide Prawn Day: in response to the Standing of Australian Fish Shares Studies (SAFS), Australian prawns are deemed sustainable primarily based on data relating to every prawn’s biology and catch and energy data that assist decide Australian fish shares (populations).

The report was executed on 20 shares of prawn through which 16 have been rated sustainable and the remaining 4 have been inconclusive resulting from an absence of information. A few of the prawns studied embody the Banana, Endeavour and Tiger prawns.

The prawn harvests and resultant inhabitants are reliant on seasonal situations and alter 12 months to 12 months.

“Importantly, the experiences take a look at shares, not species, as this can be a much more correct manner of assessing sustainability,” mentioned Patrick Hone, managing director of FRDC. “A inventory is a inhabitants inside a species, in a sure space”.

Data launched within the SAFS report is recurrently up to date and since 2018 has been used to trace Australia’s progress throughout the UN Sustainable Improvement Objective.

The latest SAFS report is ready to be launched within the subsequent few weeks and can see the Redspot King Prawn being added.