The grieving widow of a prawn trawler deckhand who drowned off Fraser Island is suing the boat’s owner for negligence claiming $1.6m in damages. Lynette Joy Chivers, 39, a mother of one from the ...

SEAFOOD retailers in the Far North are hoping prawn trawlers will put local stores first to stop prices increasing at the next harvest. It comes as industry stakeholders are unsure what impact the ...

Owner Danny Moore decided to take the boat out of action for a month to allow for a $30,000 refit of the dining section, repairs and a new paint job. Prawn Star was known as Lewis Venture when it ...

Queensland's shrinking prawn trawler fleet will not be getting fuel tax relief any time soon. Queensland seafood industry association president Neil Green has got nowhere with a campaign to have the ...

Charges are now pending and the operator faces a maximum fine of $110,000. Officers from the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and the NSW Police Marine Area Command boarded the Queensland ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Police & Courts. Followed categories will be added to My News. Gentjan Daullxiu, 39, a prawn trawler worker and concreter, pleaded guilty to extortion in Cairns ...

The 27-year-old went overboard from an Austral Fisheries boat off the coast of Weipa and the alarm was raised in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Queensland Police said search teams were looking ...

The US has lifted its ban on wild prawns from Queensland and Western Australia that was introduced in 1996 because nets used to catch prawns were also catching turtles. The ban has been lifted after ...

Rik Buckworth receives funding from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation and the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, which both include some indirect industry funding, as well as ...

A Cairns trawler worker targeted a man he knew had just been robbed, extorting him for money in return for the recovery of the stolen goods, a Cairns court has heard. Gentjan Daullxiu, 39, a prawn ...