Packaging and Preparation of Seafood for Export:Our seafood merchants/suppliers are all legally authorized in the cleaning, preparation and packaging of all seafood, |
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OCEAN CATCH FISH abound from South Altantic Ocean and South Pacific Ocean and yields an enormous variety of species, most restaurant quality. There is also a large quantity of palatable fish at low price that could feed the masses in third world countries. The Chilean fish capture is primarily JACK MACKEREL (trachurus murphyii) and ANCHOVETA (engraulis ringens) and lesser amount of HORSE MACKEREL ( scomber japonicus) and SARDINE (sardinox sagax). The Brazilian and Argentinean capture has an enormous variety of species including SPANISH MACKEREL, BLUE FIN TUNA, SWORDFISH, PATAGONIAN HAKE, GROPER, PATAGONIAN GRENADIER, and SOUTHERN BLUE WHITING and ATLANTIC CROAKER including species WHITEMOUTH CROAKER and YELLOW CROAKER which are bottom fish for 6 months of the year. |
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FRESHWATER FISH abound in the Amazon in sizes you will find hard to believe, while being renowned as delicacies. There is an assortment of amazing fish to tempt the palate. Menus in the north feature the mammoth pirarucu, whose delicious flesh is quite meaty; texture almost like chicken. and the tasty tambaqui, a fruit and seed-eating fish equipped with powerful, molar-like teeth adapted for crushing its food. Other notable fish are the salmon-like dourado. The beautifully colored tucunaré, or peacock bass, is also a prized food fish. It is the coveted catch of fly-fishermen who are beginning to discover the thrills of angling for it in the Amazon basin. |
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A considerable number of catfish, such as surubim, pintado, caparari and filhote, can be sampled. Filhote are juvenile specimens of the largest fish of the Amazon, the giant piraíba, which reaches lengths of 10 feet and weights of 300 pounds. all of these fish must be tried in the restaurants and seen in the markets! There are hundreds more. There is also a large quantity of aqua-culture farmed fish, mainly Tilapia. |
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