Sardines - From Where?

[Mrs Rusty Bucket]

I like the brunswick sardines - currently from canada.

Sometimes my dog gets some.

Otherwise I try to get local fast growing fish like gar or whiting or farmed fish like salmon, ocean trout, barramundi or marron - sometimes you have to ask.

King fish - while farmed is a bit of a risk because if it isn't today or yesterday's catch it tastes and smells horrible.

Tuna is pretty much impossible to get now that is environmentally friendly or tastes better than cardboard eg skip jack does not taste as good as blue fin but blue fin is endangered.

And I get really angry when monk fish is on the menu. You know that extremely ugly looking fish with the little light for catching tiny fish - that's a monk fish also known as a deep sea angler. Originally they were chucked back as "by catch" for something else like prawns, but now they're targetted, and some of those fish are 100 years old, they are extremely slow growing, live about 3km under the ocean surface where there is no light and bugger all food...it's completely unsustainable and so wrong it's not funny. Deep sea anything is likely to be slow growing and unsustainable as a commercial catch.

Sardines are small and fast growing. Theoretically they should be sustainable. But climate change is not helping them. But I still eat them.