I'm starting this brand new section with the a few of basics in fish handling and preparation - like how to fillet a fish - and over the next few weeks we'll progressively bring on-site more cooking tips, and great recipes courtesy of some of the award winning chefs that grace our local restaurants.

To get you started, here's what we have so far. Enjoy!

Seafood Preparation

• How To Fillet A Fish - An illustrated guide to the simple technique of filleting a reasonable sized fish. Those are my hands in the photos, and I would like to thank my wife Pam for driving the digital camera, and stopping the dog from stealing the fish.

Recipes

• Cold Smoked Barramundi With Green Papaya Salad And Lemon Aspen Dressing - Sounds good and tastes even better. Craig Squire at Red Ochre Grill reckons that this is one of his favourites.
  
  
• Steamed Red Emperor In Banana Leaf With Papaya Chilli And Coconut Salsa - Another one from Craig Squire at Red Ochre Grill.
  
  
• Seafood Gumbo - A hot and spicy all time favourite.
  

Local Seafood Suppliers

Cairns arguably has the largest commercial fishing fleet of any port in Australia based here and product worth hundreds of millions of dollars is harvested each year. Seafood is supplied to local restaurants andinterstate markets, as well as to the insatiable near Asian markets of Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan where demand for prime live / fresh sea food has driven up prices of the right produce to extraordinary levels. Apart from savoring these delicacies from the sea in our huge array of quality seafood restaurants, visitors can easily purchase fresh supplies from the various retail outlets within the region.

From prawns, calamari, barramindi, coral trout, Spanish mackerel or tuna, and many other tropical reef and estuary species, oysters and crays, everything a seafood lover could desire can be purchased and cooked in the comfort of your own holiday accommodation.

• Cairns Fish Marketing Agency
  
• Pantacchini's Seafood Wholesalers