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Branching out and trying new foods can be a daunting experience, especially when it comes to seafood. But going bolder at the fish shop can mean extra cash in the pocket without sacrificing taste. Captain Darwin Grant Barker says most Australians eat only a fraction of the more than 5,000 species of fish in our waters, with many of the lesser-known varieties of seafood little secret. “Bream and Robinson pearls come to mind. They may be some of the best dinner table fish in the country, but most people don’t realize it. People in the industry … but the general public doesn’t know it,” Grant said. He said there was a generational reluctance to venture away from safe classics like salmon, barramundi and snapper, which meant shoppers were choosing from small schools of fish, pushing demand and prices up. Load Fish species worth trying Seafood producer and former chef Umar Nguyen said the list below comprises some of the best but underutilized fish species avail...

Two-thirds of the fish that Australians eat is wasted. After the fillets are removed, the remainder is usually discarded. The poor recovery had an impact on prices. “You pay for a whole fish but only really eat a third, but all the parts of the fish actually have enormous value, like the head, tail, skin,” said Patrick Hone, managing director of the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. The chef slowly started using more fish, including their offal. Delicious waste The beef, lamb, pork and chicken industries had much higher recovery rates, ranging from over 50 percent to the 70s, but why is seafood recovery so low? “Seafood offal is a completely unexplored area,” says chef Danielle Dixon. Chef Danielle Dixon says advocacy for underutilized species is critical. ( ABC Landline: Pip Courtney ) “With the average net profit in the food business sometimes being just 1 percent or less, it’s really important for us to start educating people about h...

About 385 million years ago during the Late Devonian period, a fish walked from the water to the shore in search of a new home. The fins are strong enough to move on land. Thus began the history of vertebrates on land. Fast forward to 2004 in the Canadian Arctic Islands in the Nunavut Region, where researchers found two fossils about a kilometer apart. One came from the specimen that came to be known as Tiktaalik roseae (pronounced tick-TA-lick) . The others resemble teenagers Tiktaalik , especially from the appearance of his jaw. But nearly 20 years after its discovery, paleontologists suspect it was something else entirely. Researchers from the University of Chicago and Drexel University recently published a study in the journal Natural where they describe a new fish species that may have preceded Tiktaalik . What’s new – Researchers now ascribe the second fossil to a new fish species they call Qikiqtania wake up . Pronounced “kick-kiq-TA-nee-ah,” the s...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fish help researchers trace the origins of how the brain calculates math, reports a review in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy . An international team has reviewed more than 200 publications, which together show that fish perceive quantity using parts of their brains similar to those used by mammals and birds. Research is still underway to find the specific brain circuits that enable number processing, but these findings could eventually help treat human ailments that impair math skills. “Fish is on par with other animals in terms of a sense of quantity,” said the correspondent author Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara from the University of Trento in Italy. “There are species, particularly the zebrafish, which are ideal models for studying the molecular and genetic basis of a sense of quantity. This could have important implications for neurodevelopmental diseases that affect number cognition, such as deve...