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Parrot Fish

29 Thursday Oct 2020

Posted by in Mark

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I feel sorry for the parrot fishes! Yes this fish can be eaten, but for us divers this is a big No No!!! There are important reasons why we should not eat them and we should educate the fishermen to stop catching these beautiful fish! Please do spare them … the ocean needs them to regenerate. Read below to be educated. They’re lots of fish you can catch in the sea. They can sell and cook the other fish, but leave the parrot fish!

Here is why: (c&p from the web)
 

Parrotfish eat algae and dead coral*. They spend up to 90% of their day nibbling. In other words, they clean the reef. This is important because most of the reefs across the tropics are being smothered by algae because there are not enough parrotfish and other herbivores out there grazing.

After all that eating, get this: They poop fine white sand – lots of it! Each parrotfish produces up to 320 kilograms (700 pounds) of sand each year.

Their numbers are so depleted, and algae levels are so high, that they cannot be fished sustainably right now anywhere in the Caribbean. These flamboyant, algae-eating, sand-pooping fish need to be left in the water. And when they are left to chomp away, they do a brilliant job. A massive new report concludes that reefs where parrotfish were abundant in the 1980s are the reefs that are healthy now.

There is a reason for their existence so please let’s not eat them … To our Govt. Please educate our fishermen… Say no to catching parrot fish! Let’s not buy parrot fish so they won’t catch them anymore.

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Hung’s Wide World of Food

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by in Mark, The Dining Room

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A man who was a chef in a previous life

Well for Gordon’s sake, here I am writing under Hung again, so many identities so little time. Anyhoo I’d like to provide a nice recipe. Oh yes nice, just to get even with my English teachers however the real Hung would say delicious and simple but never let a chance go by, like starting sentences with And and But, now one of my favorite get backs but hey I don’t hold grudges.

Ingredients

White fish fillets – now me I’d eat flathead tails. Whiting or Bream  would be good but get what you like, prawns, squid can also be added or substituted.Fish filleted, skin and bone out. If small leave fillets whole.

Bunch of spinach or silver beet, can use frozen[don’t you love the irony, I do], need some of the water,as least a cup. Chopped or pulsed in a food processor.

Chicken or vegetable stock, at gel stage. From the supermarket is easiest

Jalapeno chilies, mild. Look it needs chili, banana peppers if you really can’t.

Anchovies, at least 2. This is for the salt, add as many as you need or replace them with salt.

Red Pepper that have been char grilled and skins removed,chopped.

Black pepper

Olives I like green ones,I don’t know how black ones will go in this recipe. Chopped.

Tomato paste

The Method

In a sauce pan non stick 23cm with lid, put the in spinach, allow to steam off, you what enough fluid for the fish. When reduced add all the other ingredients tomato paste last and mix thoroughly . Add fish and cover with sauce. Return heat to simmer and when simmering put the lid on and turn the heat off. Five to ten minutes is enough. I prefer 10 minutes.Serve with anything your heat desires, I had rice but do what ever you like really.