Kingfish

Ranking the fish from THAT fish and chip poster

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Every fish on the iconic New Zealand Commercial Fish Species poster, ranked.  There are a few staples of the quintessential fish and chip shop: sticky plastic curtains, soggy paper tickets with a little red number, tin pottles of Wattie’s tomato sauce, even some unlabelled aioli if you’re feeling bougie. And then there’s the New Zealand … Read more

How to skin a kingfish with Clarke Gayford

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The first fisherman shows Simon Day how to fillet a fish using the famous Gisborne method.  On a dull January afternoon, Clarke Gayford took two of The Spinoff staff into the Hauraki Gulf on a fishing expedition. I was there to take photos, while Spinoff editor Toby Manhire interviewed Gayford about his famous partner’s first … Read more