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Article: BARRAMUNDI AND CHIPS, SIR? Could the Aussies' favourite fish, now being raised in huge vats in an ex-pizza factory in the New Forest, replace cod?
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2006
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Byline: JANE FRYER
DEEP in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia, the barramundi fish are basking. They lounge beneath logs, sunbathe on river beds, snack on their offspring and, every so often, fight to the death with a brave Aussie angler in garish Bermuda shorts.
But 12,000 miles away in rainy Hampshire, things are rather less exotic.
Instead of a nice brackish swamp shared with a bunch of smiling crocodiles, home is a converted pizza factory on an industrial estate in the rainy New Forest.
And, rather than sunbathing, lolling about, or earning their reputation as the Houdini of fish by slicing though fishing nets with their ...