While you can purchase live spot prawns by the pound from local fishmongers or at grocery stores, one key part of the business is the frozen-at-sea spot prawns. An interpretation of a new ruling by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, however, would find the sale of any spot prawns frozen-at-sea illegal. The ruling, as written, indicates the following: “No person who catches and retains a fish under the authority of a license issued for the purpose of commercial fishing shall have the fish in possession if the fish is skinned, cut, packed or otherwise dealt with in such a manner that […] where size limits are applicable, the size of the fish cannot be readily determined.”
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