It’s one of the busiest times of year for seafood suppliers under the pump to fill Christmas tables with a variety of Australian caught fish. At the Darwin Fish Market, tens of thousands of oysters and prawns are heading out the door, and fishos who've spent months at sea are reaping the rewards of their hard work.
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00:00Amateur master chefs in Darwin preparing for Christmas with their recipes in mind.
00:07It's like a nice tamarind barbeque, grilling them, and then top them with butter and lemon
00:13dressing on top.
00:14Crabs, in memory of my father, and some prawns, and we'll just have some ham and salads.
00:21The Aboriginal Land Council-owned Darwin Fish Market is working overtime to service demand.
00:27We'll still take orders, but seriously we're not trying to promote too much because we'll
00:32be struggling to keep up with capacity.
00:3435 orders last year before Christmas, this year's over 200 already.
00:39Out the back, shuckers prepare up to 60 oysters an hour, with 10,000 expected to sell over
00:45this busy period.
00:46This husband and wife team, who supply Spanish mackerel from the remote Northern Territory
00:51and Queensland coasts, feel very lucky for the bumper season and for the unique lifestyle.
00:57It's definitely pristine, special areas that we get to access.
01:01It's a privilege of being a fisherman in this world.
01:04Seven people, two kids, 20 metre boat.
01:07What could go wrong?
01:08What could go wrong?
01:09And they have some advice for preparing their prized catch for a special occasion.
01:14You can only access that level of mackerel when you buy it from places like this.
01:18When it's been lying caught, that's when you can do a beautiful steaming mackerel.
01:22You get like an open, opal reflection.
01:24Like that's, if you're going to talk about how we eat our mackerel, we love it.
01:29From the sea to the plate for a fishy Christmas.