Australian wild caught Ocean Jackets

Headed, Gutted, Skin off. 9.8 kg bulk pack cartons.
1 x 40 ft container = 2448 boxes = 23,990.4 kg

Available now: 3 x40 foot containers, with one container per month year round.

Sizes 100-210g, 210-320g, 320-400g, 400-500g, 500-700g

Ocean Jacket

Nelusetta ayraudi

Other names:
Chinaman, chinaman leatherjacket, leather-jacket, yellow jacket.

Family:
Monacanthidae (leatherjackets).

Description:
Available wild caught, these marine fish are mainly found inshore near the sea bottom on the continental shelf and upper slope often near reefs and sponge beds to about 200m. Ocean Jackets are by far the most valuable commercial Leatherjacket, and are caught mainly in the Great Australian Bight in traps or by demersal trawlers. Like all Leatherjackets, they lack scales and have a distinctive skin that resembles fine sandpaper, a prominent, spiky first dorsal fin and very small mouths.

Season:
Available year round.

Ocean Jackets:
Headed, Gutted, Skin off.

Ocean Jackets in bulk pack 9.8 cartons