Premium Content Subscriber only Producers of Australian prawns have asked coastal residents to not use imported prawns as bait when fishing, to protect our crustaceans. Kim Hooper, executive officer at the Australian Prawn Farmers Association, made a call to Northern Rivers fishermen to avoid using imported prawns sold for human consumption as bait, even though prawns bought at retail shops are cheaper than actual bait prawns. "The risk is very high because there are lot of fishermen who use imported prawns as bait," she said. "Some people are trying to do the right thing, but it only takes one person to decimate the industry."