"barramundi" news and stories

As part of its G'Day NZ tourism promotion, covering the best Australia has to offer in terms of food, wine, culture, art and film, Tourism Australia is hosting the worlds longest Australian lunch this Friday.

Ticket sales for the Longest Australian Lunch (at Auckland's Viaduct) are 'selling fast' with over 400 people expected to participate. Sizzling BBQ platters featuring Aussie king prawns or crocodile meat for the more adventurous will be available with some great Crown Lager beer and Lindeman's wines to wash it down. In addition there will be samplings of kangaroo, crocodile, and barramundi fillets. Entertainment will include an Aboriginal dance performance by Descendance. Price is NZ$75 per ticket includes food, beverage and entertainment from 12 – 2.30pm.

The menu includes Oz lemon infused tabouleh salad, Wallenbeen mustard barramundi fillets, Lemon myrtle & garlic prawns, Chargrilled crocodile with bush tomato onion confit, Seared kangaroo loin with alpine pepper and BBQ plum sauce and Triple berry cheesecake.

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The Australian barramundi fish is to go on sale in 165 Waitrose supermarkets today in the hope that it might help to save the cod.

The 12,000 odd mile journey to the UK has, in the past, meant that the fish would never compete with domestically caught fish. But now that the fish has been bred locally its famously 'delicate and buttery taste' can be fully experienced in the UK.  

Thousands of the fish have been harvested at England’s first barramundi farm after an intensive breeding programme. 600,000 fish were imported from Australia last September and were raised - they are brought in young and alive -  in 48 tanks that hold three million litres of fresh, recycled water that is heated to a tropical 28C (82F), the same temperature the fish is used to in Australia.

It is expected to go on sale at about £15 a kilogram. No idea how that compares to Australian prices but seems a touch high to me.

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