paling murah pun RM450 satu kg!!!


EMPURAU SARAWAK!

KUCHING: LTT Aquaculture Sdn Bhd, a pioneer in the commercial breeding of empurau fish, will increase the export of Sarawak’s most highly priced freshwater fish.

Managing director Bill Lu Thian Tack said the company now exported an average of 100 live empurau to several restaurants in Peninsular Malaysia.

The company, which started culturing the fish four years ago in Asajaya farm in Samarahan Division, also supplies empurau (scientific name: Tor tambroides) to restaurants here.

“The retail price for empurau (weighing 1kg-1.5kg) is RM600 per kg. For sizes more than 2kg, it is RM750 a kg. Empurau is an exotic fish and people who like the fish never bargain on the price,” Lu told StarBiz.

The farm has some 300 brood stock, which each produces about 5,000 eggs twice a year to be hatched into fish fries for breeding.

“Empurau is a very slow growing fish. The growth is about 500g a year in the first three years. After reaching between 2kg and 3kg, it could grow faster at between 1kg and 2kg a year,” said Lu.

The exotic fish was found in abundance several decades ago in the upper reaches of the Rejang River in central Sarawak when the river was still unpolluted by logging activities.

Local fishermen around Kapit River have claimed to have caught empurau weighing between 50kg and 60kg.

Lu said empurau population in the wild had dwindled drastically and because of the limited catch, the fish now sold between RM400 and RM450 per kg in Kapit.

In the early 1970s, the fish was sold between RM15 and RM25 per kg in the local market.

On the taste of his cultured empurau, Lu claimed that it was about 95% close to the wild empurau.

“My own formulated feed for the fish is similar to what the empurau in the wild feed on. The feed is a mixture of enkabang fruit (illipe nut), fresh seawater fish, fish oil and vitamin C,” he added.

Lu said the special concrete ponds in his farm were built based on a combination of the Japanese and English pond systems with a good filter system, and that he had invested about RM500,000 in custom-made ozone processors that killed bacteria and algae, and improved the oxygen level in the ponds.

He said the ponds provided very good quality water that was essential for the empurau to breed well.

source : http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?f...20&sec=business

<--- price can be RM750 per kg!!!!
industri ikan sarawak... woooooooooooo sooo expensive fish!!

Najib Umum Peruntukan RM4.5 Juta Untuk Penyelidikan Ikan Empurau

BETONG, 11 April (Bernama) -- Kerajaan Persekutuan meluluskan peruntukan RM4.5 juta untuk penyelidikan ikan empurau, sejenis ikan air tawar yang hampir pupus di Sarawak.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan perkara itu pada majlis perjumpaan pemimpin bersama rakyat di gelanggang futsal pekan Spaoh, kira-kira 50km dari sini, Isnin.

"Ini supaya membolehkan ikan itu bukan sahaja dapat dinikmati oleh rakyat Sarawak tetapi juga oleh penduduk Semenanjung apabila ia dihasilkan dengan banyaknya kelak," katanya.

Harga seekor ikan empurau matang seberat tiga kilogram boleh mencecah antara RM2,800 hingga RM3,000. Ikan berkenaan hidup di hulu sungai berair jernih kini hampir pupus disebabkan oleh pencemaran alam sekitar.

source : http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=578047

This post has been edited by hack3line: Apr 12 2011, 07:36 PM

bapak besar gile

m0n$t@r fish mang . gooding . price? more gooding for bankruptcy

nyamai itu...

fish too big and meaty not nice

tor tombroides?? kelah kan?

sepupu sebarau and kelah

Oh dammit. Kalau aku praktikal empurau kompem aku kaye pasni.

Macam rupa lee koh je

can some1 tell me how the taste like...?

terubuk sarawak sedap lagi.

Damn tht fish ....eat once .....some people like the thick oil/fat ...

I dont like it at all

terubuk byk tulang, susah nk on nom nom

moslem kenot eat this.

no thinks i prefer real salmon or tuna

gila kau... ikan yg diberi makan minyak ikan & vitamin C...

i wan bela ikan now

ikan kat sarawak mahal lagi tak sedap.
last2 ambik dari tawau,sabah jugak

u sabahan ka..?

bela gapi jela, comel dan sebulan sekali beranak berpuluh-puluh. But then u hv 2 bela 600 just to match the price of 1kg of empurau

bela punya too fatty.. catch punya jus nice

ikan gapi goreng tak sodap.. kocik!!

nampak macam ikan kelah

Gila makan gapi LOL

suddenly najib cares so much for sarawak..

Ini Taib punya pasal, reka harga terlampau untuk ikan liar biasa supaya boleh tipu orang beri dia lebih banyak duit.

wang bu liau fish very ahrd to catch and expensive to eat.

samo jo ngan kelah

no sama with ikan kelah, empurau fish only can get between the border of sea (salt water) and river (fresh water)

not like the fishermen really get all the earnings. those tree living monkeys confirm kena exploited.

this fish only eat fruit..

tangkap labi2 lagi senang dari cari kelah...

satu lagi harta orang dayak yg hendak dirampas taib dan umno.

lepas tangkap, nelayan dapat 1%, org tengah dapat 49%, Taib dapat 50%.

duduk rumah goyang telur pun dapat wang.

i wonder since when org dayak claim that fish as their asset

babi xsedap. taste like shit. and ppl pay for this shit. lucky apek

i think u got the wrong fish there..u meant terubuk right..coz empurau can only be found upstream..not border between salt n fresh water..btw my fren caught the fish a few times already by using net...last time he wanna sell to me for rm300 per kilo

why cannot?u jeles?

stupid muthafcuker

i think it's kelah.This particular species of the carp family do indeed fetch a high price in market reasoned by it's taste and sport fishing.
but the main problem promoting it as an aquaculture is that it grows 1 inch or less annually
that mean's you got to wait for a long time to harvest fish weighing kgs.except you intend to catch it wild.
it does look good and sell good,but how many consumer readily eat this fish regularly.would you?nah too expensive
i think is like with ikan ketutu but this fish grow in size readily.
but it's expensive and is serve as one of the delicacy among chinese people.
again,chinese people don't consume this fish daily,well only occasionally
.general chinese population prefer saltwater fish over freshwater fish , as it doesn't smell bad.
that's all then.hope this help.

Empurau~

kampung baru subang many seafood restaurants there got sell, yes its rm60/100 gram

may be what you dont know about this fish is they really got the market for the rich. You can get it in few fish shops in KL like the one in Sri Petaling. When the shop got the wild empurau stocks, they will let those datuk datuk tan sri tan sri knows and all kena sapu/booked. Even those hong kong people will make trips to malaysia shopping, jalan jalan and makan ikan empurau.

There are some fish shops now start selling breeded empurau at cheaper price but the taste is not as good as the wild empurau. Those rich people will not like the breeded empurau. They can afford to pay the money, so, they not going to settle for a lower quality empurau.

I went to sibu few months ago and we look for the wild empurau high and low also cannot get one for our dinner to treat our customers. The price in Sarawak is lower if compare to those shipped to KL.

Even if you want to do venture into this business, i think you need to have sustainable flow of Kelah fish.Which I seriously doubt so as it's easier to catch them in the wild than to rear them up to the size you want.
for that, i will have you understand that their number is dwindling down fast.What with people masak ikan bakar right after fishing them.
The days for this fish are numbered given that they took such a long time to grow to the size to feed few adults.think of Koi fish if you like as both of them are carps.koi fish have a poor growth rate.

nothing taste better than salmon and cod fish.

not only that, what make this empurau special and feel tasty is the food the fish eat. The wild one eat the fruits (cant remember what the fruit name) dropped on the tree along the river band. Understand that the fruit now is also fetching good price to be export.

Those breeded one cannot afford to feed the fruit as the cost will be too high. Hence, the breeded one will lose out in terms of tastiness.

have you tasted a wild empurau before you qualify your above statement?

wau ada tiger juga

ikan keli - big market at saudi.

emperau market, maybe not only malaysia-worldwide,baru masyuk

owh ikan ni . tpi bukan ikan ni dalam perlindungan ke?

kene denda woo klu sesuka tangkap dan di tangkap oleh pihak yang bertanggung jawab

erm.. what makes you think that i never tried it before?

pardon me, i didnt say you taste or not before, I only ask whether you taste before you make your statement.

think that's in perak ler

i know they really like biji kelapa sawit

monster river fish..
shld invite NGEO to come and film

tasted once. chicken wing still win.

Empurau is a lot of hype, and the price... hence the Chinese name "wang pu liau". After makan, money fly away

Seriously our semenanjung Kelah way better taste and texture, also cheaper too (RM300/kg). Oh Kelah is also protected too. Sad cause such a tasty fish. Some one should breed this too!

there are quite a number of species of river fish and price is not that expensive. Those found in Pahang River is also very good and we always find time to drive up there to Karak, Mentakap, Termeloh to taste those river fish.

yeah , went taman negara before to pancing this kind of fish.. but not empurau la. think just normal kelah.. using buah kelapa sawit as bait.

pernah makan satu kali kat Sarawak, ikan stim gila RM3k.

Di sana
Kelah = empurau
Sebarau = Sigma
Haruan = Haruan
Haruan Besar = Toman

owh sebutan ja lain.. tot was diff. species.

sedap ke ikan kelah?

Tapi sebarau ada lain sikit, kita punya ada 1 line, sana sigma 3 line

people have been suggesting ikan ketutu can be rear, look where it goes...no news
i know a Fish shop owner that keep an ikan ketutu, according to him that that fish have been with him for 2 years and yet to attain 1 kg weight despite feeding it with delicious fishes.lol

Bro, what's the growth rate for that fish?

haruan besar?i tot toman memang paggil ikan toman....

Never drive that far for fish b4 must try one day. Only thing I can say is the prices of river fish in Gohtong Jaya is more expansive than in Sri Petaling. There is also a type of patin from Sibu call "Wong Tai Patin", really gooding but price also very high (300/kg), sadly for the past few months no stock.

My usual river fish restaurant is in Sri Petaling (fast food fish head). How bout you guys? Care to share?

and those giant Patin.....

Sri Petaling got one fish shop, cannot remember the name.....they got many fresh water fish....Sudan fish, Hong Kat Lor, Ting Ka lang, Patin, etc etc.....

Dengkil also got 2 now, Kuchai lama there got one......the rest not sure.

The Wong Tai Patin, some place they called it Patin Wong and some mentioned about Patin Fu Yung....i also confuse and the price is roughly 300/kg.

got another haruan.. haruan tasik tpi di laut..

anyone ate this b4? ikan tapah/malaysian giant catfish

saw the pic but never taste it

sedap tpi depends on sapa yang memasak jugak.

apuu, ku slalu meh makai ikan tu, nda nemu ku rega ya.

damn ate this fish a lot, means that ive ate around 100k+ of cash. DAYUM!! i shud have sold it!!

quite good, daging manyak, can eat at tanjung lumpur,kuantan

tak hanyir ke? heard ppl say hanyir.

ikan bela besaq2 ni selalunya isi tak manis dan sesedap mana pun...

not totally right, there are some fish where the meat is not nice if too big size but there are lots of fish, the bigger the better.

Example the grouper, those giant size one, is very expensive in the market.

This fish, small slices i think about 90-100g RM70 .. eat this fish b4..

taste ?? ikan laut taste better...

i eat tak hanyir, maybe the masakan stim with lots of garlic

tree ppl fish

gua maksudkan ikan ternakan..bukan yang tangkap dekat laut tu...bela ni sesuai utk ikan hiasan jaa...

Empurau = Kelah (West Malaysia name)

even kelah in west malaysia also got many species.....

this kind of fish....chinese ppl called it as 忘不了鱼

macam ni, i also want be fisherman at there

NFC2?

Sarawak no condo, I wonder what will the 4.5 millions being used at...

may be rumah panjang....

NFC = National Fish Council?

bela ikan kat kondo?

tak tau la

thats the problem..... haruan yang lebih 2kg they call toman

Ini ikan manyak sedap

Kelah family...the empurau's grandfather is even bigger...Indian Mahseer.

Yar, tapah/tapar memang best. But there are 2 types, one a little rounder(in body) and bronish while another is blackish, one of them taste better.

taib bang

songlap byk mana pun sarawakian vote for him

Wa u also kaki river fish ya. But but only the seri petaling one is gooding. The kuchai lama one many many times he over cook the fish.

Isn't this just fish?