resolved Fish ID :)

[51MPL]

Mate caught this off harries the other day:

My guess is some form of batfish?

[Bi_polar]

yeah, you get massive schools of them at the beacons

[fishingnut]

bat fish on a rope ?

[Keen-as-fisho]

Moon/bat/sun fish?

[ellicat]

Batfish. Thought Robin would have been quickly onto this one.

[Rocket75]

Batfish. Thought Robin would have been quickly onto this one.

KAPOW!

[tomca]

How much per kilo did Mons give you for that?

[Bill_V]

I got one of those in my cast net at the poo chute about 3 weeks ago...

[wheel fish]

other common names are Zebra Batfish, Batavian batfish, Humped batfish and Batavia Spadefish

Scientific Name Platax batavianus

Location Northern Australia

Season All year round

Size To 45cm and 4.5 kg

Australian Species Code -

Taste, Texture Very average tasting fish.

[51MPL]

Thankyou everyone for your replies!

Bout tree fiddy tom

[jhedrick]

what do they taste like? good eating?

[51MPL]

No idea man, they threw it back because they didn't know what it was.

[wheel fish]

what do they taste like? good eating?

I think i would rather eat nile perch out of a fish and chip shop mate

[Brenden]

Batfish are not a real good table fish. Moonfish which are lighter in colour are very good eating.

[Wahoo2]

what do they taste like? good eating?

I think i would rather eat nile perch out of a fish and chip shop mate

Or Basa! Have you tasted that gelatinous crud? :sick:

[wheel fish]

what do they taste like? good eating?

I think i would rather eat nile perch out of a fish and chip shop mate

Or Basa! Have you tasted that gelatinous crud? :sick:

unfortunately yes i have.

i purchased a piece of fish from "Weis Backdoor" the takeaway outlet for Weis Resturant in Toowoomba

the fish i ordered was Gourmet Fish of the Day

one bite nearly had me ejecting my plumbing out though my mouth

took it back into the store and told them something was wrong with the fish

they looked at it and said noting could be wrong with it as it was fresh that morning

i asked what fish it was and was informed in a happy smiling manner that it was imported basa.

i asked if the next days Gourmet fish of the day would be toad fish

i was refunded my money and asked to leave the store

copied from one of many articles on Basa

Panga is the original name for it.

"Panga is industrially farmed in Vietnam along the Mekong River which is apparently one of the most polluted rivers in the world resulting in fish that contains high levels of bacteria; namely arsenic, industrial effluents and toxic and hazardous by-products, metal contaminants, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), chlordane-related compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), and hexachlorobenzene (HCB)."

how i love living in such an upmarket town that can serve this offal as Gourmet