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Aegina's Municipal Fish Market

Aegina's Municipal Fish Market

Aegina's Municipal Fish Market has been operating like a fish auction hall for the past 70 years on the harbor of aegina. Every morning caiques, the Greek traditional wooden boats (caique, kaiki in Greek, is a small wooden boat usually powered by an engine although it may have sails as well and some can be rowed), arrive here to sell the majority of their catch before heading to the fish auction hall of Keratsini (in Piraeus) to sell the quantities left.

The fishing fleet of the island counts approximately thirty wooden seiners-caiques, three fishing trawlers, one pursue seine vessel and a few long-liners. In Aegina's Municipal Fish Market, you are sure to find fish for every budget; from anchovies and whitebait, boque and octopus, yellow fin tuna to sword fish, Sun, red mullet, stripped mullet and katsoula, a pink flat-shaped fish that looks like a sole, which is only found in Aegina and Rhodes.

Whenever there is shortage in certain fishes, fishermen and vendors selling vegetables out of their boat go alternatively to Piraeus to fill their van with the necessary supplies and cover the market's needs.

Having bought their fish, the clients of the Fish Market sit on the nearby cafes (traditional cafes) to drink their coffee watching people come and go as they are updated on the market's latest news. Near-by taverns and meze restaurants get busy on the grill, since some of the clients often decide to have a bite of what they just bought before heading home.

Others decide to stop at the two caiques opposite the fish market, on the harbor, to buy vegetables. The first caique is owned by Nektarios and the other by Nektaria; they both buy their merchandise from Athens. Shopping from the caiques is a strong-routed habit, since, in the past, vegetables and fruits arrived daily by boat from the Peloponnese supplying aegina with the necessary produce.

  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Municipal Fish Market of Aegina - Greek Gastronomy Guide

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