When grouper prices bite back

Unfortunate circumstance: A shift to breeding cheaper fish during the pandemic left little time to raise large enough groupers, says farmer. — K.T.GOH/The Star

NIBONG TEBAL: If you had to buy grouper fillet at RM120 per kilo for Chinese New Year, it is because they are all caught in the wild and, as such, are rather rare.

Large groupers – of sizes big enough for fishmongers to slice into juicy fillets for your reunion steamboat feast – are not coming from local fish farms.