Eating Parrot fish???

[findingnemo]

The Asian supermarket across Ocean Gallery II sells reef Parrot Fish for consumption. It is green about 8-10" long.
Aren't these fish poisonous with ciguatera???

Anyway, it was just interesting to see a shinning green fish on the fishmarket.

 

[Hawkeye]

I want to say that I have seen them sold live in wetmarkets in Hong Kong, but this was like 2 decades ago.

Anyways that stated parrotfish are *generally* herbivores. Ciguatera is a disease that is most pronounced (supposedly) when eating top of the line food predators on the reef.

 

[findingnemo]

Cool...Hawkeye. Thx for the info. It makes sense now. I think they still have them in HK. I went to hong kong about 4 years ago.

 

[Hawkeye]

really? and you didn't post any pics of tung choi street????

I found this online....



Hmm that's too small for my preference. let me see if photobucket is better.

 

[Hawkeye]

trying again:

LFS in Hong Kong:

 

[Hawkeye]

Sorry for the hijack - but talking about HK led me to some other stuff:

I asked the nj dept of wildlife about permits/exporting stuff back to the US from HK and was told to talk to the feds.

The TSA supposedly will let a "live" fish enter and not stop it per the liquid rules.

But the US fish & wildlife requires that the specimen go thru their "normal port" (e.g. JFK) and if it goes to a different airport (e.g. Newark) a different fee is involved. Also I have to fill out this super long ridiculous form and pay a $100 importation fee or something like that.

The whole process just sounds like a headache and a bunch of dead fish tied up in customs.

So I guess my conclusion is - when I go to HK - i'm not bringing any fish back with me. I hope the LFS owners won't be mad at me taking lots of pictures for the club to view! The above two shots are from one store. There are supposedly like 10 or so all on one single street.

 

[findingnemo]

hawkeye, i love goldfish street. But i was more amazed by the seafood markets in Lei Yu Mun. They have all types of coral fish/shrimp/crabs/calms in there. Some of places have 2-3000 gallons tank for live grouper/parrot/wrasse/Goliath fish.

It was amazing so many coral creatures in such a small seafood market. I hope they stop taking large coral fish form the wild and go with farm raised......

 

[Hawkeye]

hawkeye, i love goldfish street. But i was more amazed by the seafood markets in Lei Yu Mun. They have all types of coral fish/shrimp/crabs/calms in there. Some of places have 2-3000 gallons tank for live grouper/parrot/wrasse/Goliath fish.

It was amazing so many coral creatures in such a small seafood market. I hope they stop taking large coral fish form the wild and go with farm raised......

Hmm i've been there - but back before the hand-over. So i wasn't expecting it to be the same now that it's 2011. What is that - almost 20 years ago last I went.

Well in that part of the globe, live seafood is considered to be above all the most important (store like Red Lobster would go out of business there) and as such it's to be expected there will be all kinds of stuff at that market.