Trivia

Because orange roughy grows slowly — the average fish is between 30 and 50 years old — the New Zealand government has imposed fishing restrictions. Consequently, the fish is not as abundant in stores as during the 1980's.

Orange roughy live in a world which is cold, dark and has a water pressure 80-100 times that of water at the surface.

Up until about 30 years ago orange roughy managed to survive away from human intervention. But modern technology has now enabled us to reach more than a kilometre under the sea to harvest orange roughy as one of New Zealand's richest fisheries.