Some Easter news for you...
Canberrans are joining the annual rush for Easter seafood ahead of traditional Good Friday meals.
Retailers around Canberra are reporting high sales of fillet fish, including salmon, flathead and orange roughie as well as traditional seafood favourites of oysters and prawns.
John Fragopoulos, FishCo Downunder store owner said Easter was starting to rival Christmas for seafood sales. ''Sales on the Wednesday and Thursday before Easter will bring in as much as a normal trading week, so we have gross takings of a fortnight at Easter,'' he said.
Fragopoulos said snapper and John Dory were both selling well in recent days, but the extended prawn season was the breakout trend for Easter.
The family business has been operating in Canberra since 1997, with the Fragopoulos family involved in fishing in Australia for more than 40 years.
Bob Kearney, University of Canberra fisheries expert said the Australian industry was in excellent shape by world standards.
''Australians can eat fish this Easter with great confidence that species are well and truly sustainable and Australia's fisheries are in extraordinarily good shape,'' he said.
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| Anthony Fragopoulos manager of the FishCo downunder in Fyshwick holds a 30kg sampson kingfish amongst some of the other fish on offer for Easter. Photo: Colleen Petch |
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