LINE-CAUGHT BARRAMUNDI WITH CANNELLINI BEANS & SALSA VERDE

My god fish names are confusing. This is barramundi. Every Australian knows it as barramundi. The word comes from an aboriginal word meaning 'large scaled river fish' - which is a reasonable description. It's a member of the sea bass family and is common in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. If you're in Thailand, they'll call it ปลากระพง.  We can buy 3 versions of barramundi here - farmed, wild and line-caught. Farmed fish are OK but often seem vaguely muddy to me. Wild fish are a big improvement. But the line-caught versions are vastly superior to even the netted wild fish. My fishmonger explained it. Something to do with the time the fish can spend in the net in the ocean before being hauled on board and put into the ice slurry. The fish are often dead by the time they get onto the trawler. The line-caught version, however is alive and kicking when it comes on board and goes straight onto ice. It has a different colour, bright white as compared with a vaguely blueish white for the netted fish, and with a vibrant red just under the skin. Anyway, at their best they are a sublime fish.

LINE-CAUGHT BARRAMUNDI WITH CANNELLINI BEANS & SALSA VERDE