Shark attack!
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denNews services are full of stories about the latest shark attack, where the bloke drove to the surf lifesaving club with the wobbegong shark attached to his leg
Wobbegongs are not known for their attacks. They're better known as "hake" when they're encased in batter and deep fried. You really have to work at getting attacked by a wobbegong, almost to the point where you have to kick one in the face to make it bite you. People generally don't report wobbegong attacks. It's almost as embarrassing as being trapped in a wombat hole when the wombat presses its bum up against the roof and crushes you.
Australia is that kind of place.
Wobbegongs are not known for their attacks. They're better known as "hake" when they're encased in batter and deep fried. You really have to work at getting attacked by a wobbegong, almost to the point where you have to kick one in the face to make it bite you. People generally don't report wobbegong attacks. It's almost as embarrassing as being trapped in a wombat hole when the wombat presses its bum up against the roof and crushes you.
Australia is that kind of place.
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 06:19 (UTC)Re:
Date: 12 Feb 2004 07:05 (UTC)they are commeting an ofence by misslabling
there fish.. new laws where brought in Australia
wide a few years ago, to combat the confusion
from differnt areas having differnt names for
the differnt fish.. though having growen up in
Cannbera and spent a lot of time in outer NSW,
ive neever seen any form of shark sold as
hake, only flake.
"flake" is the common name for all shark
that can be sold comerasaly.
http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/rec/fish/wobbegong.htm
http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/rec/fish/gemfish.htm
*Gemfish are also known as Hake.*
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/mediareleasespublications/factsheets/factsheets2001/mercuryinfishadvisor1415.cfm
The advice for pregnant women to moderate fish intake relates only to the large fish, like shark/flake, ray, swordfish, barramundi, gemfish, orange roughy, ling, and southern bluefin tuna.
...
**Note that flake should not be confused with hake, which is a small white fish that does not have higher mercury levels.**
http://www.deepcove.co.nz/ProdDisp.cfm?DispProd=10
Hake (Merluccius australis)
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 08:23 (UTC)Sounds like "hokey".
:)
(Wobbegong, huh? Ugly buggers, sit on the bottom looking like... well... the bottom of the sea, a lot?)