Australian Seafood Handbook (Imported Species), GK Yearsley, PR Last and RD Ward, 9781876996314

Australian Seafood Handbook (Imported Species)

An Identification Guide to Imported Species

Edited by:
GK Yearsley
PR Last
RD Ward

Colour illustrations, Index
224 pages
Publishers: FRDC / CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Hardback - 2003
ISBN: 9781876996314 - AU $ 49.95

The quantity, diversity and origins of seafood imports to Australia have increased dramatically in recent decades, and importers now supply more than 60% of the commercial market in Australia.

Australia’s 225 imported seafood species are superbly documented in this user-friendly and comprehensive identification guide. Colour photographs, protein fingerprints and fish fillet features are provided for an amazing variety of seafoods: finfishes, crustaceans, molluscs, jellyfishes, sea cucumbers and seaweeds. It is an easy-to-use guide to all major seafood species imported, including fish fillets, which link each species to its approved, national marketing name.

Australian Seafood Handbook: An Identification Guide to Imported Species is an essential reference for all importers, fishmongers, processors and seafood consumers.

Comprehensive, full-colour guide to all major imported species in Australia
Includes distribution maps, protein fingerprints and habitat details
Links species name with approved national marketing names

1 Introduction
2 How to use this handbook
3 Glossary

4 Cartilaginous fishes

4.1 dogfishes

4.2 ghostsharks (elephantfish and ghostsharks)

4.3 hound sharks (gummy and school sharks)

4.4 whaler sharks

5 Bony fishes

5.1 Australian salmons

5.2 batfishes (batfishes and butterfishes)

5.3 breams (snapper and breams)

5.4 carps

5.5 catfishes

5.6 cods (hakes and true cods)

5.7 dories

5.8 eels

5.9 emperors (emperors and seabreams)

5.10 flatfishes (flounders, halibuts and soles)

5.11 freshwater perches (barramundi and perches)

5.12 garfishes (garfishes and longtoms)

5.13 gemfishes (ribbonfish and gemfishes)

5.14 gobies (gobies and gudgeons)

5.15 gouramis

5.16 grunter breams (grunter breams and sweetlip breams)

5.17 gurnards

5.18 herrings (anchovies, pilchards, sardines and sprats)

5.19 icefishes (Patagonian toothfish and icefishes)

5.20 jewfishes

5.21 knifefishes

5.22 leatherjackets

5.23 lings

5.24 lizardfishes

5.25 mackerels (mackerels and tunas)

5.26 milkfishes

5.27 moonfishes

5.28 morwongs

5.29 noodlefishes

5.30 ocean perches

5.31 oreos

5.32 pearl perches

5.33 pomfrets (pomfrets and Ray's breams)

5.34 rockcods (coral trouts and rockcods)

5.35 roughies

5.36 salmons (trouts and true salmons)

5.37 sandperches (sandperches and duckbills)

5.38 snakeheads

5.39 threadfin breams

5.40 threadfin salmons (threadfins)

5.41 tilapias

5.42 trevallas (trevallas and warehous)

5.43 trevallies

5.44 tropical snappers (king snappers, ruby snappers and tropical snappers)

5.45 trumpeters

5.46 wrasses (parrotfishes and wrasses)

6 Crustaceans

6.1 bugs (bugs and rocklobsters)

6.2 crabs

6.3 prawns

7 Molluscs

7.1 abalones

7.2 clams (clams and cockles)

7.3 mussels

7.4 octopuses

7.5 oysters

7.6 scallops

7.7 sea snails (conchs and trochus)

7.8 squids (cuttlefishes and squids)

8 Miscellaneous seafoods

8.1 jellyfishes

8.2 sea cucumbers

8.3 seaweeds

9 Protein fingerprinting

References
Acknowledgements
Appendix A - Fish Names Committee
Appendix B - Table of species
Scientific names index

" ... enormously useful references for anyone involved in the Australian fishing indsutry in any way. . . An excellent and very important book."
Fishing Boat World, February 2004

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