Municipal Fish Market of Aegina

Η Municipal Fish Market of Aegina works like fish ladder for seventy years on the beach road. Every morning the boats bring here most of their fish - the rest go to the fish ladder of Keratsini.

Its fishing fleet Aegina includes about thirty fishing boats, three trawlers, a purse and some longlines. On the market stalls you will see fish for all wallets, from anchovy and little girl, buttocks and octopuses, tone (yellow wing), up to swordfish, languages, red mullets. gossip and a fish that can be found only in Aegina and Rhodes, the coat, a pink flat fish that looks like a tongue.

Many times when there is a shortage of some fish, the fishmongers in a spirit that declares their good relations, send alternately, each his professional truck to bring fish from Piraeus and to feed the market.

Customers, after buying fish for their home, drink their coffee nearby cafes watching the beach parade listening to the market news, and it is not uncommon for some of them to ask to eat some of their fish on the spot, turning to the grill next door taverns.

Still others buy their vegetables from the two boats located opposite the fish market on the waterfront. The first of Nektarios and the second of Nektaria buy the products mainly from Athens, Greece. This habit of shopping from boats comes from the fact that the supply of Aegina in vegetables and fruits was done earlier than the Peloponnese, with daily trips to feed the island.