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"Commercial barramundi fishermen say their industry has all but collapsed in Australia, after the price for wild-caught fish plummeted this season.
Key points:
Barramundi prices have crashed by up to 40 per cent this season
But while anglers are getting as low as $14 per kilogram, retailers have maintained prices close to $40 per kilogram.
The poor returns could force the closure of the NT industry, one angler said
It has meant some have had to pull up the anchor and call it quits as the cost to go out fishing is just too high.
Fisherman Craig Van Lawick said that scarier still is not just the woeful pricing, but the fact demand seems to have dried up completely"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-17/barramundi-industry-collapses-in-nt-fisher...I've had Barramundi twice only and felt it didn't deserve its reputation as a super seafood to put on the table.
These fellows should now go into exporting their catches to the swank restaurants of America and Europe.
There's no public demand here in Australia because the extra price is not justified in terms of comparison with the taste of all the other cheaper fishes found in the shops.
Why pay extra for its reputation that doesn't jig with the actual experience of eating it.
The humble Atlantic Cod slowly simmered in a pan of milk-and-butter and then sprinkled over with mint or other is just as satisfying experience.