In collaboration with Aussie Seafood, the Sydney Fish Market encourages Australians to discover or get reacquainted with the local catch thanks to Get Fresh with Fish campaign.
They describe it as "aimed at encouraging local communities to embrace their locally caught seafood species.
By carrying out seafood cooking demonstrations using selected Australian species which are caught by local fishermen, Sydney Fish Market seeks to support the fishermen’s cooperatives and producers based in metropolitan Sydney and regional New South Wales by showing locals how tasty and easy cooking with local fish species can be."
The Sydney Fish Market also supports the Australian Fish Names standards.
You can identify shops and restaurants across Australia who follow its guidelines by the logo (above).
In addition the Fishes of Australia website identifies local fishes by region, family.
A huge workload it seems from what they share in their introduction:
largest and most diverse fish faunas. The freshwater component,however, is the smallest for any continent of a similar or larger size.Currently, only 283 described freshwater species are known from our waters, of which 258 are native to Australia. These numbers reflect both the historical isolation of Australia from other temperate regions
and its intimate association with the most diverse marine fauna in the
world, that of the tropical Indo-West Pacific. In addition, Australia
has a long history of aridity in all but a few, relatively small
freshwater areas along its continental margin.Almost a quarter
of Australia's fishes are found nowhere else. Although more than
two-thirds of these occur at tropical latitudes, 60% of the endemic
species live in temperate southern waters, more than three times that
of the tropics."
Great at least for the Pescadarians…