NEW South Wales north coast’s disastrous year of floods had a positive that will be very handy for Christmas. 

Just imagine your plate full of prawns this Christmas.

Commercial fishermen are harvesting huge hauls of school prawns, which due to their size are easily being confused for King prawns.

“In my 20 years in seafood, these catches are by far the biggest ocean schooling prawns I have seen,” Shane Geary of the Coffs Harbour Fishermen’s Co-op told The Coffs Coast Advocate.

“All the pro fishermen have put it down to one thing – the floods.

“When there’s a drought on land, there’s a drought at sea, and when there’s a flood it flows through to the ocean washing prawns and a lot of nutrients from the estuaries out to sea,” he said.

It is understood Coffs based trawlers are said to be pulling up a tonne a day, often close to shore, but as far north as the Gold Coast.

So this Christmas, a tragedy has turned into a real treat.

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