{"id":802,"date":"2008-01-16T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/fish-wednesday-on-the-dock\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T03:01:58","slug":"fish-wednesday-on-the-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/fish-wednesday-on-the-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Wednesday: On the Dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What happens when you actually catch something?&#8221; I ask the sailor. He&#8217;s tall and tan in shorts and a polo neck shirt with the snorkel boat line logo on it. He&#8217;s good looking in that Magnum PI kind of way, which is funny, because we&#8217;re in Hawaii. &#8220;Well, it depends on what we catch. We ask if there&#8217;s anyone on board that wants to bring it in. Then we send everyone up front. It&#8217;s dangerous and the fish are fast, really fast. Once it&#8217;s on deck, we whack it on the head &#8211; after we warn everyone about what a bloody mess it is. Then we toss the fish in the hold. It goes to the crew or if they don&#8217;t want it, sometimes we sell the catch to the restaurants in town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/2198971792\/\" title=\"Mahi mahi on the dock in Lahaina by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/2198971792\/\" title=\"Mahi mahi on the dock in Lahaina by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2371\/2198971792_1fedb39e8a.jpg\" alt=\"Mahi mahi on the dock in Lahaina\" height=\"263\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0A few days later we were on the docks in Lahaina and there was a spectacular catch of mahi mahi laid out on the walkway, a few big fish hanging from the scales, too. &#8220;Amazing catch,&#8221; the sport fishing gal says to me. Again, I ask what happens to it. The sportfishers don&#8217;t typically keep the catch &#8211; again, it goes to the crew or they sell it to the chefs. &#8220;This is going to be tough, though,&#8221; she says, &#8220;because it&#8217;s such a big catch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mahi mahi sells for about 18 bucks a pound at my Seattle supermarket. We got halibut instead, it costs a lot less, but I wish we&#8217;d gone with the mahi mahi. The halibut was frozen, the mahi mahi fresh. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the halibut was fine, but fresh fish wins out every time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/2198183511\/\" title=\"Halibut and Brussels Sprouts by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/2198183511\/\" title=\"Halibut and Brussels Sprouts by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2399\/2198183511_1366820caf.jpg\" alt=\"Halibut and Brussels Sprouts\" height=\"194\" width=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0J. made a big batch of mashed potatoes while I cooked the fish. It was simple, tossed in a little olive oil and topped with black pepper and some fancy Hawaiian salt. We ate it with oven roasted Brussels sprouts and black olives. Next time, we&#8217;ll make a little paste with the olives, some oil, and maybe some herbs if we&#8217;ve got them, coat the fish with it, and then bake it. Black olives and halibut are a surprisingly delicious combination, fresh fish or no.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Fish Wednesday, halibut[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What happens when you actually catch something?&#8221; I ask the sailor. He&#8217;s tall and tan in shorts and a polo neck shirt with the snorkel boat line logo on it. He&#8217;s good looking in that Magnum PI kind of way, which is funny, because we&#8217;re in Hawaii. &#8220;Well, it depends on what we catch. 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