Available wild-caught (previously farmed in NSW), these are marine and estuarine Prawns, with adults found on coarse sandy bottoms near river mouths to depths of about 55m, and juveniles on estuarine seagrass beds or sandy bottoms in shallow waters.
Although they occur from Sale, Victoria, north around the Australian coast to Margaret River, WA, they are mostly trawled or netted in estuaries south of Noosa, with a small recreational fishery for Western School Prawns in WA.