Can anyone explain why is fish so expensive?? We're surrounded by ocean and there can't be expensive transporting costs as we're so close to the ocean. I paid $35 per kilo for linkfish today from Angelakis and needed 1.5 kilos.....yikes :sign68: ( There was other white fish I could have bought, but they were even more expensive at up to $38 per kilo.)...that's a very expensive home-made fish pie!!

Yeah I know....apparently most fish is imported for some reason?? not sure why? :blink:

Its those Chinese fisherman, they keep stealing them all. I saw it on Border Security the other week!

I guess it is like most manufacturing industries over here, production becomes too expensive due to high wages etc, when the same or similiar products can be sourced overseas at a far cheaper rate, just economics really.

The reality is that the fish stocks around South Australia are limited.

The most common would be Snapper and Whiting with farmed bluefin tuna.....most of these are exported elsewhere. The Japanese buy most of the bluefin.

Fish like barramundi can't live in SA waters as they are tropical and most of those for sale are farmed.

Like many countries the waters round Australia are overfished and many fish for sale are not local.....in fact many are deep sea fish from far away.

Even the shellfish and prawns will be imported from somewhere.

G

I bought atlantic salmon fillets last week for $29 per kilo

Ali

Well, I guess you could always catch your own!!

Last week I was up in Townsville and went a Baramundi Fish Farm. I caught 7 fish in 30 mins!!
It was my first go at fishing and I'm hooked (pardon the pun). I'm sure I won't catch anything like that amount at the pier in Brighton but if I did, I would know what was on the menu that evening!
Judi x

Thanks Grayling! that makes it a lot clearer!