Indigenous Australians have been fishing and eating giant freshwater prawns from creeks across the Top End for thousands of years. The popular king prawn weighs around 60-70 grams, but the freshwater ...

IT LOOKS like we are pretty close to the end of the run-off and this is the time that people start to target cherabin as they start to return to the upper sections of our rivers and creeks. Cherabin ...

A Northern Territory amateur aquaculturist says the Territory is missing out on an industry that could deliver millions to the economy. Ken Robinson says the cherabin, a giant freshwater prawn, would ...

Cherabin adults normally prefer freshwater environments to live, feed and mate. The berried females may ­migrate from freshwater to brackish water regions, where the eggs hatch; or, alternatively, the ...