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Fish market, Australia

Sydney Fish Market

The largest fish market in the Southern Hemisphere, on Blackwattle Bay in Sydney.

Sydney Fish Market, at Pyrmont on Blackwattle Bay, is the largest fish market in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the largest in the world by variety. Each weekday morning it runs a Dutch-style clock auction, in which prices fall until a buyer stops them, selling fish from fishers across Australia. Retail stalls, restaurants and a seafood school draw visitors.

Australian fish

Snapper, barramundi, yellowtail kingfish, flathead, mullet, whiting and southern bluefin tuna are among the many species sold. Much of the barramundi and kingfish is now farmed. The market sells over a hundred kinds of seafood on a typical day, from fish and prawns to oysters and lobster. The clock auction was introduced in 1989 and lets buyers bid by computer as the price falls.

Southern bluefin and a new market

The southern bluefin tuna was heavily overfished in the 20th century. Australia, Japan, New Zealand and other members of a commission set catch limits, and much of Australia's catch is fattened in sea pens off Port Lincoln. The New South Wales government has built a new fish market building on the bay's edge nearby to replace the old one.

Still to be written: Australasian snapper, Barramundi, Yellowtail amberjack, Southern bluefin tuna.

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