19-02-2004, 08:30 PM
It's quite ironic you mention being able to keep fishmongers honest. When I got this book one of the first things I picked up on at a couple of the Vic market fish mongers is that they regularly sell pink ling as rock ling. With the genuine rock ling getting a much better write up than pink ling in the CSIRO book with respect to eating qualities. The other one which was surprising was the number of very different species of fish that are sold as butter fish....john dory, mulloway, king fish and morwong but to name a few.