00:02It's a Good Friday tradition.
00:04We get up early, we sneak out of the house and we come and get all the seafood and we
00:09do a family lunch every year.
00:10Happy Good Friday!
00:12That some are more excited about than others.
00:15I got here like 5.15 to 6 and yeah, I was really tired when I woke up.
00:21It's first come, first served for those who snagged seafood before sunrise.
00:26We got prawns, barramundi, baby octopus.
00:31And there's a whole lot more to shift.
00:34We're looking at over 650 tonnes of seafood to be traded on the site this weekend.
00:38Of that we're looking at about 100 tonnes of prawns and over a million oysters.
00:42Today's trade is a mini-marathon of sorts.
00:45The first customers came in at 5 and the market won't shut until midnight.
00:50This is actually the single busiest day of the year for us.
00:53We had queues outside. The doors hadn't opened to this building and there were queues outside at 4am.
00:58This is the fish market's first Easter at its new home in Blackwattle Bay.
01:02More than one million people have passed through the doors since it opened here in January
01:06with 60,000 visitors expected to have stopped by today alone.
01:11As global events force many to tighten their belts, there's a particular focus on a budget-friendly catch.
01:18Instead of going for those really high-end crabs, maybe just go for a blue swimmer crab.
01:22You really can't go past the locally farmed barramundi.
01:24That's still selling for under $20 a kilo.
01:26And after the shopping comes the shelling, slicing and serving.
01:31We're going to go to a friend's house and eat all the fish.
01:34The final thing to do is feast.
01:37The final thing to do is feast.
01:40The final thing to do is feast.
01:41The final thing to do is feast.
01:41The final thing to do is feast.
01:41The final thing to do is feast.
01:42The final thing to do is feast.
01:43The final thing to do is feast.
01:43The final thing to do is feast.
01:43The final thing to do is feast.
01:44The final thing to do is feast.
01:45The final thing to do feast.
01:45The final thing to do feast.
01:45The final thing to do feast.
01:45The final thing to do feast.
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