Fishy isn't it!

While visiting our construction site to check on the progress of works, a woman came round with a couple of interesting fish for sale .. just caught!

First one up .. a 2kg tanigue (spanish mackarel)


and another very cool looking fish that I don't know the name of!



The tanigue joined us for supper .. for 300 pesos .. it was a very pleasant evening, I cooked spaghetti marinara (got mussels, some octopus, and dorado from the Gasan market) and the tanigue was barbequeued .. very nice!!

Fishing - Hauling in the nets

the boat is used to pull the net outwards ..


this is the view over the net when it's almost in ..


pulling teams!


this is the endgame part, the people pulling the lower parts of the net converge to close the net at the bottom ..


this sock-like thing is at the very apex of the net, and it's where most of the fish end up



most of the catch is mackerel, but there are some other fish I can't recognise ..


this one I was told is an 'angelfish' ..


and this one .. I draw a blank ..


lots of mackerel ..


and a few other different species - I could recognise a garfish and a pipefish (sort of straight seahorse ..)


here's the pipefish ..

:)

Philippines fish - a couple of photos from the Boac fish market

One of the constants about living in Marinduque is fish - power comes and goes, you can buy beef on a Sunday, but even on a bad day you can be sure that there will be fish at the market. Today I took my camera with me and snapped a couple of photos. It was slightly late, so the selection wasn't as big as usual, but still interesting.


The fish on the left of this photo, looking like mullet, are known locally as 'Bangus' and are very popular - I haven't treid them yet. The ones at the centre are Maya-Maya (red) and Lapu-Lapu (brown), two species of grouper. The slices in the pan to the top left are my soon-to-be supper.


an overhead shot - I have no idea what the fish looking like a big red mudskipper is, but it's bigger cousin now lives in my stomach - and it was really good! The red fish central to the photo is a maya maya, and the silver/blue ones next to it are small tuna.



Fish is very fresh, and suprisingly affordable. My fish today cost 120 pesos a kilo, 140 for the whole fish. Couldn't get those prices in Europe for sure!