There’s nothing that says ‘Australian Christmas’ quite like a bucket of big juicy pink prawns.

It is a substantial industry with the value of production of Australia’s aquaculture industry worth over $200M per year, and its growing at 16% per year, with prawns being the industry’s most valuable product. Queensland is the location for 95% of Australia’s prawn farms – there are 14 farms dotted along the coast.

So is our love of prawns sustainable? In this week’s podcast we talk to Kim Hooper, Executive Officer of the Australian Prawn Farmers Association, who provides a fascainting insight into how the industry work (who knew breeding prawns grow to the size of your arm from your hand to your elbow!) and how it minimises its impact on local waterways and the Great Barrier Reef.