date:Apr 08, 2013
t when he lifts the gills, it's no good; they're brown, he says dejectedly. (The gills should be bright red). Plus the skin is dry, the eyes are cloudy, and it smells funky.
The hunt continues for the rest of his list: scallops, shrimp, squid, monkfish liver, fluke, shad roe, blowfish.
He spies black sea bass from New Jersey at $6.75 a pound. How many do you have?
One hundred pounds, says vendor John Dias.
How about $5.50? Nunez asks.
Dias relents.
Nunez later nabs red snapper from the Gul