Talking Deep drop- Patagonian Toothfish

Has anyone on here ever eaten or tasted this highly rated fish. And where would it be placed compared with our WA fare.

Always wanted to try but never seen it anywhere.

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 I tried it once and it

Tue, 2014-05-13 10:51

 I tried it once and it tasted like crap. Couldn't see anything good about it.

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Ditto absolute crap

Tue, 2014-05-13 11:25

Tried several times, you cannot eat the skin as it is loaded with oil and gives you the runs, flesh similarly oily (apparently very high in Omega 3) strong tasting which I do not like in any event and, like orange roughy, large fish are very old breeding stock and hence the resource is extremely finite and at risk from over-fishing - interestingly the Japanese love it as do Chileans - the old different strokes I suppose, they are welcome to it but stay out of the Heard and McDonnell Islands fishery as that is OURS  

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I thought it might be the case

Tue, 2014-05-13 11:31

They look "oily" when you see pictures off them.

Might not waste money on it then.

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I read that they grow up to

Tue, 2014-05-13 12:16

I read that they grow up to 100kg and 7ft long?? thought they were a smaller fish? I'd imagine the bigger ones wouldn't be as good on the chew

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asia

Tue, 2014-05-13 12:19

 thats why the monkeys love it because of hw oily it is! Shit outa the eye of a needle!!

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burswood seafood

Tue, 2014-05-13 12:40

Burswood seafood sell it crasny try it for yaself

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sealanes supply as well

Tue, 2014-05-13 14:49

in fremantle. At $79 a kilo its only for some.

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Oily

Tue, 2014-05-13 14:57

You wouldnt get a mullet past my teeth. And I even find herring and tailor a tad to oily!!!

Paying $79/kg for something that sounds more oily than those - no Bloody way.

I will now just take it for granted that it suxs.

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Smoked mullet

Tue, 2014-05-13 17:14

is great Neels. Oily fish tend to smoke up well. If you are into smoked fish give it a try.

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Cheers Alan

Wed, 2014-05-14 09:37

It probably is just the thought off mullet now. After years off using it as bait fishing/crabbing I just couldnt get that past my teeth. Sort off like biting the head off the herring they do on "deadliest catch". Make you gag.

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I've eaten it

Tue, 2014-05-13 17:58

 and give it  high rating. No shit from me but then again i like fresh mullet

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 You're like me Wayne, I was

Tue, 2014-05-13 18:18

 You're like me Wayne, I was bought up on Mullet and Herring and it comes down to the way it's prepared. I've tried Toothfish too and though it was alright IMO.

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Toothfish

Tue, 2014-05-13 18:49

 I've had some. Cooked up some confiscated catch that we took off illegal fishermen we arrested. Rated it highly.

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Yep cooked right mullet is real good

Tue, 2014-05-13 18:56

 Did you watch the show on life style channel last year Andy...in witch each episode a chef went out with a different fishing boat catching and then cooking up many different types of fish for a panel who at the end of the series had to rate the best tasting fish [meal] as serve up by the chef. 

 They had no idea what fish was served and quess what won the best eating catorgry. MULLET yes you read corectly the humble grey mullet beat all the top fish around Europe.

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  Doesn't surprise me at all.

Tue, 2014-05-13 19:09

  Doesn't surprise me at all. My old man used to just gut and scale, wrap in soaked newspaper and bake them in the oven.

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Toothfish

Wed, 2014-05-14 02:20

I have eaten it and to me it tasted awful, but hey different people different taste buds. The value in tooth fish is that the flavour of it can be masked to represent a lot of different tasting fish. That's the reason it is so highly valued by south American countries and worth the risk of pirating it. There is a good book (wish I could think of the name) about the chase and capture of a boat illegally taking tooth fish and that gives some detail about how they mask the taste it is also a great story about how crime pays if your government doesn't have the guts to stand up to other countries when trying to protect its' own fish stocks.

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The book is called Hooked.

Wed, 2014-05-14 08:39

The book is called Hooked.

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Yep

Wed, 2014-05-14 09:01