It was a few weeks ago now but I saw Bream at nearly twice the price of Snapper in a fish shop - How can that be?
It was a few weeks ago now but I saw Bream at nearly twice the price of Snapper in a fish shop - How can that be?
If the sign in the refrigerated window says bream lets say $30 per kilo and for snapper the sign says $15 per kilo well thats generally how it works. Bream twice as much as Snapper
Sorry don't know.........
Supply and demand....simple.
The supply for bream should outweigh snapper 10 to 1 and so should the demand in the opposite IMO ,,,,,,,,so that cant be right????
Cheers
Chris
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isnt bream and snapper just about the same fish
It depends on what they are calling "snapper"
Snapper big red thing with a lump on its head is one thing.
The various "tropocal snappers" are another all togehter.
cheers
Its the details, those little details, that make the difference.
Yep saw the same thing the other day $18.50 a kg for bream fillets and $12 a kg for snapper. But the snapper may have been whole.
neil
double post sorry
Last edited by Kleyny; 12-01-2009 at 07:06 PM. Reason: double post
I think a lot of snapper are bycatch from offshore trawlers therefore less expensive than net caught inshore fisheries. The big boys in tyhe big trawlers can catch a lot of bycatch in a single shot whereas a inshore netter might be out there all night for a few tubs of fish.
Jack.
Doesn't make sense.Originally Posted by tunaticer
Wouldn't a commercial food fish have a set market price irrespective of whether it was trawler bycatch or a specific target from inshore netters???
Why would an inshore netted snapper cost more than a trawlers bycatch snapper to the consumer??
IMO bream isn't worth eating at the best of times,
& a snapper 1kg or under tastes the same as bream,
so I would just go for the cheapest,
just my opinion,
Muzz
have another look later on, you may see the tables reversed, as mentioned, it is purely a supply thing, there is a lot of very fresh snapper coming in from NZ at a fraction of the price of an Aus caught Fish, so if there was a 'sale" on Snapper, the retailer may have gota pile at a good price and is selling them at that price for a volume profit, but Bream may be a bit scarce right at that time, so they are slightly more expensive, but next week they may be over abundant, so they will be cheap, same goes for Prawns or anything else, simple really.
You'll probably find the snapper was small or large mouth nannys sold as snapper that comes in big bins from the northern territory looking very old and ragged and at the right price yet the bream would have been local and probably dearer.
But it all comes down to season and location as bream sells whole in the sydney markets sometimes over $15 a kg wholesale for whole fish where snapper on the same day may only be $4 a kg the imigrants prefer bream over snapper.
As far as bycatch in trawlers there is none of any legle size as the big fish out run the nets and in QLD no bycatch can be kept so i'd say what you saw would have been some crap fillted that would of been a couple of weeks old and passed off as snapper.
Also consider the processing costs.
KG for KG what would be quicker and cheaper to fillet, bream or naything big enought to be sold as snapper.
cheers
Its the details, those little details, that make the difference.
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