Fishermen have welcomed the opening of the lucrative US market to wild-caught Queensland prawns. “This is a marvellous breakthrough,” industry spokesman Michael Gardner said.
“There are 300 million seafood lovers in the US and certainly a large potential market for our wild-caught prawns.”
Mr Gardner, President of the Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA), said the opening up of the market followed years of work in designing, fitting and approving US-compliant turtle excluder devices (TEDs).
“I congratulate fishermen for persevering to meet the specific US standards for TEDs. It’s been a long hard road but I am very pleased for trawl fishermen and everyone through the marketing chain that this effort has paid off at last,” Mr Gardner said.
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