SYDNEY (Xinhua): When most people think of Christmas lunch, they probably imagine roast turkey and goose by a snow-capped window. But in Australia's hot Summer sun, fresh seafood is the traditional holiday feast and prawns are always a mainstay on every family's table.
SYDNEY : When most people think of Christmas lunch, they probably imagine roast turkey and goose by a snow-capped window. But in Australia's hot Summer sun, fresh seafood is the traditional holiday feast and prawns are always a mainstay on every family's table.
"It's a well-established fact that when you have drought on land, you have drought in water," Professional Fishermen's Association CEO Tricia Beatty told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday. Although it's much more difficult to see, Beatty explained a similar impact is being felt by Australia's commercial fishing sector.It's also likely to be a hard time for consumers as well, with the price of school prawns rising from about A$12 per kilo at the start of the season last year to over A$30 per kilo this year.
"There are many processes in the estuary that need fresh water because it brings in critical nutrient elements that run off the catchment," University of New South Wales Professor Iain Suthers, who studied the phenomenon following Australia's millennium drought in 2000, said.
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