Prawn farmers expected to cope with climate change
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The Queensland Aquaculture Industries Federation believes prawn farmers will be able to adapt their practices to deal with climate change.
A report by the CSIRO suggests climate change could damage Australia's $2 billion commercial fishing and aquaculture industries.
However, federation president Dr Trevor Anderson is confident the industry will not be affected because it already copes with varied conditions.
"Most of the aquaculturists that I know are very innovative people, in fact it's an industry that's characterised by innovation, so I don't see anybody in the aquaculture industry suffering too badly unless there are huge changes and then we really can't predict what the outcome will be," he said.
"Potentially if there was a massive increase in temperature, like if it went up 10 or 15 degrees then production would be severely curtailed, but if it was only two or three degrees then we have management techniques which allow us to handle a range of temperatures and I'm sure we would deal with it."
