Thread: Now these 2 are some prawns

Originally Posted by V8Ian

All primary producers are struggling, not just with nature, but our Government, who seem hellbent on driving them into the ground. We import fruit that has the potential to introduce disease that will devistate home grown agriculture. They drive our fishermen aground, leaving our seas to Asian poachers, unchallenged. Now we know the real reason for the gun laws, they're scared of a revoloution.

How true,All in the name of free trade..Find yourself a good map of the gulf of carpenteria and find Mornington Island, bottom south east corner, we reported 4 indo fishing boats working not more than 25mls north of that island, not to mention the one's they found in the rivers on the eastern gulf between weipa and kowanyarma.
How the hell did they get that far without being spotted..
Customs Reply, we are that busy, we will get them when we can.
Cheers Ean

It's when they are less than 1 prawn per kilo that they are really big (and horrible to eat).

Had a friend used to work the trawlers out of TI and Wiepa years ago. Everything went to the mothership and straight to Japan. Never even came ashore to Australia. People don't realise the poor quality we put up with for meat, fruit and veg, seafood etc. The really good produce doesn't grace our shops but mostly goes straight overseas.

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

How true,All in the name of free trade..Find yourself a good map of the gulf of carpenteria and find Mornington Island, bottom south east corner, we reported 4 indo fishing boats working not more than 25mls north of that island, not to mention the one's they found in the rivers on the eastern gulf between weipa and kowanyarma.
How the hell did they get that far without being spotted..
Customs Reply, we are that busy, we will get them when we can.
Cheers Ean

No need for a map, I lived in Karumba. Bypass cutoms, the Navy or Air Force should be patroling, fully armed and prepared to fire. They are invading and stealing from us. Sink a few of their relics and they won't come back. I don't mean tuck them into bed in a comfy motel before we set fire to the excuses for a boat.

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

Gday All, I hope my poor camera use and lack of finding something to measure these against that people can relate to do these 2 prawns justice..The packs we send into the Japanese supermarkets havea prawn wieght range of between 60grams to 90grams and these are the biggest size we catch, very rare to see prawns that big in Aussie shops. Well these 2 went 130grams and 136grams, so some lucky japanese housewife will be happy. The tape measure is set at 12".Hope they do them justice






Like I say hope these picture can relate the size of these 2 prawns

Cheers Ean

Ean,

They are nice prawns...tad small though...these are photos from the Fish Market (Peixe Mercado ) and the Municipal Market in Maputo, Mozambique.

Australia does have great seafood but, other places have better:

Originally Posted by BBC

Now....onto a subject dear to my heart...Mozambican Tucker. Who here has eaten any?........if you haven eaten 'Nando's'....you have eaten something which was was derived from Mozambique....and Nandos only faintly recognizes the fact!!! They call it Portuguese chicken...I have been to Portugal....and you can't buy it there....yet, it is for sale on many street corners in Mozambique...slow grilled over real charcoal.

During the glory days of Portuguese colonialism, before they left in 1975, Mozambique was a favoured tourist resort of South Africans and Rhodesians. They went there for...the same Vitamin B's....Beaches, Beer, and ...you know the rest.

What it was/is famous for though, is food, especially seafood! Maputo, under Portuguese rule used to be called Laurenco Marques, and the Saffers still call the prawns they get there....LM Prawns. Another favourite is Peri Peri Galinha, or Chili Chicken.

Peri Peri sauce comes from Mozambique and it is made from a mixture of African Birds Eye Chili, garlic, lemon and olive oil...my wife makes it for me...bottles it up...and then puts it out in the hot sun for at least a month. The oil turns red.....and hot....like nothing else.

Bon apetit!





















As you can see from the above, seafood in Mozambique is second to none. There is a seafood market which has a series of open air restaurants attached to it. The product comes dripping, fresh from the boats in the late afternoons. You have to walk through the market stall on the way into the restaurants, a boy will follow you with plastic bags:



You make your choices about what combination of seafood you will eat, it is packed into the plastic bag, you pay the stall holders, you walk through and choose where you want to sit, they boy takes the seafood to the nearest restaurant, and he is paid by them. You buy your drinks, beer and wine, and then pay the restaurant...I have never paid more than $20 a person.

When I first got to Mozambique in 2000, a plate of 3 x mud crabs, in a restaurant sitting on a verandah overlooking the ocean was $5 a plate....I thought I was in heaven!

The Customs, Navy and Airforce are stretch to the limit doing what they can. Imagine what they could do with the money spent over the last month on the people aboard the Oceanic Viking and Krudd's peoples visits to Indonesia.

Great Pics and realise that there are prawns and other seafood from countries around the world, but in all honesty, if I displayed my seafood like that over here, my license would be taken away and i'd be locked up till eternal doom.
My seafood handling and boat license both stipulate that all seafood must be in the freezer within 2 hours of exiting the water, the mountain of paperwork that i fill in to follow every carton caught is another story.
Other countries having better is debateable, but great pics
cheers Ean

Originally Posted by dm_td5

The Customs, Navy and Airforce are stretch to the limit doing what they can. Imagine what they could do with the money spent over the last month on the people aboard the Oceanic Viking and Krudd's peoples visits to Indonesia.

I have no doubt that they are, so maybe its time to re=assess the policy on how they are dealt with,maybe its time to take a look at the US coastguard approach, or, at how we use our Aid to countries like Indo.
the problem I have is the indo chase shark and trochus shell, the shark they only fin and throw the rest back, our shark fisherman just had there licenses removed cause the Gov didn't like the way they fish, and the one's that remain have to keep everything they catch,...which is how it should be.
As for our fishery we have a nil take on shark so even if they are dead I have to throw them back, and if i get boarded by fisheries which I did 7 days ago we get checked for all that.
I have serious doubts that boats as small as 5 mtrs come down here and fish and can hold all they catch then make it back, they need to find the mother boats, then they may start to hurt
Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

Great Pics and realise that there are prawns and other seafood from countries around the world, but in all honesty, if I displayed my seafood like that over here, my license would be taken away and i'd be locked up till eternal doom.
My seafood handling and boat license both stipulate that all seafood must be in the freezer within 2 hours of exiting the water, the mountain of paperwork that i fill in to follow every carton caught is another story.
Other countries having better is debateable, but great pics
cheers Ean

Ean, you have my sympathy.