Cheap Chrissy Crays
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Cheap Chrissy Crays
Not wishing to make too much light of a serious change in trading circumstances for Australia, however I'm struggling to find sympathy for an industry that has in recent years sold more than 90% of it's catch to the Far Kingdom, leaving us with the $50 cackers.
Perhaps they are actually doing us a favour - might be able to afford some nice crays for the Christmas table.
Perhaps they are actually doing us a favour - might be able to afford some nice crays for the Christmas table.
Not wishing to make too much light of a serious change in trading circumstances for Australia, however I'm struggling to find sympathy for an industry that has in recent years sold more than 90% of it's catch to the Far Kingdom, leaving us with the $50 cackers.
Perhaps they are actually doing us a favour - might be able to afford some nice crays for the Christmas table.
Perhaps they are actually doing us a favour - might be able to afford some nice crays for the Christmas table.
Re Crays, from where l am from the fishermen have been riding an unbelievably good wave for twenty years.
High returns for comparatively small outlay to harvest a natural resource.
And sell that natural resource for such prices keeps the local average consumer out of the market.
Sound familiar? Yes, mining.
Also where l am from, SA, the Chinese own the power, so good luck with that.
High returns for comparatively small outlay to harvest a natural resource.
And sell that natural resource for such prices keeps the local average consumer out of the market.
Sound familiar? Yes, mining.
Also where l am from, SA, the Chinese own the power, so good luck with that.
'Its Time' ? To use a well known phrase by a person who shall remain nameless....
Time to buy back / 'nationalise' OUR country's utilities, farms, resources etc.
Having sold the farm / privatised our utilities and an important strategic harbour even, for a short term economic gain, 'we' are now realising the sheer stupidity of such.
I really do not know how to 'fixit' - otherwise I would be the 'prim monster'.
So, just what DO we do..??
No Cheers 'ere....NOPE. None at all!!
Time to buy back / 'nationalise' OUR country's utilities, farms, resources etc.
Having sold the farm / privatised our utilities and an important strategic harbour even, for a short term economic gain, 'we' are now realising the sheer stupidity of such.
I really do not know how to 'fixit' - otherwise I would be the 'prim monster'.
So, just what DO we do..??
No Cheers 'ere....NOPE. None at all!!
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might be able to afford some nice crays for the Christmas table
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Could just see myself and SWMBO dining on a lovely cray and washing it down with a Grange, and please, no comments re oceanic wildlife and reds
And definitely concur with the last part of the quoted post.G'day Griffo.
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Straight off the Navajo and into the pot and cheap too
Some good hour building with a flight to King, picked up by fisherman, onto the boat, cray hold open, yep I’ll have that one and that one and that one (don’t think got those ones), into the hessian sack, back to the airport and home.
I think I’m showing my age!
Might be time to do it again!
I think I’m showing my age!
Might be time to do it again!
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40 or so years ago a few of us would hire whatever SE we could find, gut the interior, cover the floor with plastic and head off to YFLI. We would take orders from work colleagues. Down to the Whitemark warf, fill as many hessian bags with crays as we could at $5 Kilo and fly home sell them straight out of a ute to cover costs!
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Many years ago working at MB a stones throw from one of the King Island contacts who we had a good relationship with, it was just a matter of putting in your order at xmas time and voila - straight off the Chieftan into the fridge, pay up (less than $20/kg from memory) and xmas feast all sorted. So good..! Then all of a sudden they became heavily regulated, price went through the roof (presumably due to overseas demand) and that was that. They became unaffordable for the avg person, especially on an instructors wage..!
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IFEZ,
Similar story over here too...no regulatory oversight, I'm sure if they had their way 100% of the catch would go overseas and we'd import to make up the shortfall.
That there is no limits placed on how much can be exported of such a delicious natural product, beggars belief.
Similar story over here too...no regulatory oversight, I'm sure if they had their way 100% of the catch would go overseas and we'd import to make up the shortfall.
That there is no limits placed on how much can be exported of such a delicious natural product, beggars belief.
IFEZ,
Similar story over here too...no regulatory oversight, I'm sure if they had their way 100% of the catch would go overseas and we'd import to make up the shortfall.
That there is no limits placed on how much can be exported of such a delicious natural product, beggars belief.
Similar story over here too...no regulatory oversight, I'm sure if they had their way 100% of the catch would go overseas and we'd import to make up the shortfall.
That there is no limits placed on how much can be exported of such a delicious natural product, beggars belief.
I was astonished and elated when lobsters (crayfish in some third-world nations) started turning up on the shelves of the Cootamundra Woolworths, and continued to appear intermittently during the ‘height’ of C19 restrictions. It had been many decades since I’d seen them for retail sale in a supermarket.
Even though Cootamundra used to be the Australian end of the mail service between Australia and England, I’ve yet to work out why we could buy lobsters from the Cootamundra Woolies but not in Canberra or Victor Harbor, Port Elliot or Goolwa over the same period.
Cootamundra February:
Even though Cootamundra used to be the Australian end of the mail service between Australia and England, I’ve yet to work out why we could buy lobsters from the Cootamundra Woolies but not in Canberra or Victor Harbor, Port Elliot or Goolwa over the same period.
Cootamundra February:
I’ve yet to work out why we could buy lobsters from the Cootamundra Woolies but not in Canberra or Victor Harbor, Port Elliot or Goolwa over the same period.
I complained that there was no sweet white onions in a local woolies store. Sweet white onions have been on sale ever since.
Not wishing to make too much light of a serious change in trading circumstances for Australia, however I'm struggling to find sympathy for an industry that has in recent years sold more than 90% of it's catch to the Far Kingdom, leaving us with the $50 cackers.
Perhaps they are actually doing us a favour - might be able to afford some nice crays for the Christmas table.
Perhaps they are actually doing us a favour - might be able to afford some nice crays for the Christmas table.
