The fishing hasn’t improved. He’s still catching mostly Australian salmon. Luckily, the recommendations are to eat oily fish at least a couple of times a week, and Australian salmon are one of the best oily fish. And they’re one of the few on the list that are sustainable – gemfish are a threatened species, blue-eye trevalla are often long-line fished, Atlantic salmon are all farmed, and canned tuna is overfished,…
Australian salmon are not a salmon at all, but a sea perch. They’re listed as sustainable and that’s at least partly because they are notoriously not a prized table fish. They are a good source of omega 3 though, and they can be turned into a good fish dinner with a bit of care.
Mullet are undervalued. My partner remembers seeing them buried on the beach by the thousands, bycatch regarded as too cheap to bother selling. Though those days are over they’re still regarded as sustainable, and really fresh mullet are one of my favourite eating fish. Fresh fillets are not too strong flavoured, and they’re super cheap and a really good source of Omega 3.
Australian salmon are not a salmon at all, but a sea perch, and though sustainable, they are notoriously not a prized table fish. If fresh caught, bled, skinned, and filleted to remove the dark “blood” meat, the flavour is good – strong but good. The texture is more the problem. They are a bit chewy and soft at the same time. Only one way to honour the life of an…
Bream is not one of my favourite fish, but it’s one of the easier ones to catch, and Lewie likes fishing. I could never get appropriately excited about the catch until I discovered just how easy Thai Fish Cakes are to make
I remember when I was quite a small child my grandfather had a shack on Bribie Island. Just before dusk, he would take his rod and walk down to the beach. We kids would play in the shallows and barely have time to make a sandcastle before it was time to head back with a bucket full of whiting fillets.
We stopped in at a fish shop on the way home from visiting our daughter at the coast yesterday. I had just bought a half kilo of squid, thinking calamari, when I noticed they had snapper frames at a ridiculously low price.