Barramundi?

[dana_c]

The local supermarket is carrying something called 'barramundi' - a type of Australian sea bass. Anybody tried it? Recipes?

Dana (who loves ocean fish on a plate)

[JayW]

Heres some info about it: Barramundi has gained a reputation as one of Australia's finest eating fish, usually with a price to match! In fact such is the reputation that there has been the occasional scandal due to substitution of other, cheaper, fish in the restaurant trade. Objectively it is probably true that the reputation exceeds the reality, but there is no denying that Barramundi are excellent table fish and specimens captured from estuarine waters are delicious, with firm, white, fine-grained meat. However, fish that have spent some time, even years in turbid, muddy water in some back water can be an entirely different story and their flesh can range from very tasty to inedible.
http://www.geocities.com/fishspecies/Barramundi_2.jpg

I saw it on The Crocodile Hunter before about the Aboriginis in Austrailia who like to eat it.

[Bass17]

I believe these fish in the supermarket are farm raised here. Havent tried them yet but intend to!

http://www.australis.us/

[Tigersmith]

Saw a billboard in Springfield today advertising this fish. Kinda funny but I was driving down 291 and looked on the left hand side and saw a sign that read "We have Barrumundi" or something along those lines but it was advertsisng for a major shopping mart in the area.