Dolphin dumplings on the restaurant menu. A protected cetacean in Australia?

All whales, dolphins and porpoises are protected out to the 200 nautical mile Commonwealth waters limit.

So you just have to kind of wonder how Dolphin Dumplings appeared on the menu last night:

So I don't think you can buy dolphin at the Sydney Fish Market.  I suppose it could be imported, but I'm reasonably sure it would be a restricted import.

Comments

[Peter Ansell]

Hi Bob, some years ago in a fish restaurant in Florida the waiter offered me 'some lovely fresh dolphin' that they had just received. When he saw my look of horror, he laughed & explained that it was 'dolphin fish' - the local name for mahi-mahi. Also, in this case, could be just the shape of the dumpling. Hope its some explanation like that! Cheers, Peter.

[Bob Meade]

Good point Peter. I was too afraid to ask.

[Peter Ansell]

So would I have been had the waiter not noticed my disquiet and realised I was not from those parts. "Not Flipper!!" was my immediate silent thought (hey that dates me). Peter

[Bob Meade]

Here, whenever kangaroo is served - and it does make nice hors d'ouevres - invariably someone will say, "But how could you eat Skippy?"

Skippy lives on in cable TV, so the quip is ageless here.