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Keira Jenkins

Indigenous community hatches native prawn plan

The cherabin or giant freshwater prawn has been a First Nations food source for thousands of years. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Catching a native prawn and throwing it on the fire to make a meal is something that's been done along Australia's coastlines for thousands of years.

But when the staff at the Hope Vale Foundation in far north Queensland did just this, an idea began to form.

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