A new King George Whiting Record

[Damo67 6]

Strolling through the central market at lunch today after A KAksa from Richard at the Laksa House.King George Whiting pushing $70kg. $69.90! unbelievableHave 5 meals left in the freezer so i guess its time to replenish my stocks.

[waspy 3]

Yea a mate was telling me about this at the local fisho ,must be pretty rare

[Guest]

If you eat fish once a week you would be better off taking a loan out and buy a boat and catch your own!

[jaffa 81]

Arvo ppl, just to give a bit of perspective the fisherman`s price hit $28 & change for kgw`s in the fish market (Safcol) this week. Clearly the bloke doing most of the work & taking most of the risk is not the one making the lion`s share. Draw your own conclusions. Cheers.

[Squid Flaps 5]

That's whole KG not filleted right jaffa?

[Cal 480]

Next thing you know Armaguard will be delivering kg fillets to the fishmongers in those armoured trucks. Thats nothing,I worked at SAFCOL,where most of the abolone gets processed and canned,almost all of locally sourced abs go to the Asian markets.There was a tin the size of a bake bean can ,and I found out the 1 tin gets sold for 480 dollars Aus to the markets over there wholesale, thats 1 tin of brined oily salty crap basically and worth more than gold..Everyone got full scale bag searches ect when leaving after work....and heaps had been caught sucking in to temptation,they even strategically placed tins around the joint and had surveillance cameras on them to catch people out.

[jaffa 81]

@ Squid Flaps, yeah that`s whole fish price.

[Squid Flaps 5]

Well, that's apples and oranges. Seems about right then. They need to make a profit too i guess.

[archerfish 685]

My perception is that the particular fishmonger in question has generally higher prices than most of the other retailers around town. The prices at the (former) outlet at Colonnades were so out of touch with reality that it's no wonder it closed (mind you, the alleged rental being charged by the centre management probably wouldn't have helped). If you think the prices being charged in town are a bit steep, just wander out to Burnside Village and see what their outlet there charges...Just have a good look around, folks...there are quite a few other outlets doing product which is as good as (or probably better than) this, and at a much better price,Cheersaf

[archerfish 685]

Here's a thought...Just for a day, I would like to roam around visiting the major fish retailers in Adelaide and price 5 species of fish ($/kg for fillets) and whack it all up in a spreadsheet and post it on this site. My initial preferences are:KG Whiting GarSnapperFlakeFlatheadDo any S&Hers have any other suggestions?Cheersaf

[King prawn 9]

Hey archer I think that's a great idea. I went a bought some coorong mullet two weeks ago and smoked them for a nice little snack. I looked around in the shop to see what was the cheapest fish I could get . Obviously it was the mullet @ $25 kg , Tommie's were $28. I nearly filled my pants with astonishment. It's no wonder my freezer is full f my own catch!

[Squid Flaps 5]

Cappos had fresh Tommies for $6/kg whole.@jaffa, $28 plus change, someone's gotta fillet them, them you have the frames, so what's the recovery on a whole kg? Then operating costs.So they would need to double the wholesale price to stay in business.

[silaflex 103]

You would have to really like fish.Personally, I would rather eat sausages.