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A TV show cooking segment featured a chef frying fish. It ended up being a near-extinct species – and fishermen were furious.
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Date:2025-04-14 01:31:41
An Australian TV show featured a chef frying fish during a cooking segment last week – but that fish happened to be a near-extinct species. The broadcaster and chef have since issued an apology after fishermen condemned the segment.
ORF, a public radio and TV broadcaster in Austria, apologized for cooking a Frauennerfling fish, according to AFP.
The chef also said he was sorry and explained that he had "asked a friend to get him some fish" when he was asked to make a Lent-friendly meal on the show. During Lent, practicing Christians usually abstain from eating meat on Fridays, AFP reports.
"It was a chain of unfortunate events, because I trusted my friend who had a license to fish a related species and thought that also includes this fish," he told AFP by telephone.
According to local publication Die Presse, during a broadcast this week of the show "Niederösterreich Today," moderator Claudia Schubert issued an apology: "Last week we overcooked a fish in 'Deliciously Culinary,' the Frauennerfling. But it is protected all year round. We apologize for that, we had different information about this."
The fish has been red-listed in Austria since 2002 and is on the brink of extinction, according to AFP.
Also called a "female nerfling" in translations, or a "pigo," hunting of this carp has been closed year-round since 1998 in Germany and since at least 2006 in Bavaria. It has been red-listed – meaning it is in danger – by the ICUN, an international conservation organization that is part of the United Nations, since 2013.
Gregor Gravogl, director of Austria's fishery association said his organization filed a complaint this week about the fishing of the endangered species. "This is an extremely sad incident I have not come across in my career yet," Gravogl said.
The recipe from the cooking segment is still available online, urging the fish should be "from a fisherman you trust," according to AFP.
CBS News has reached out to ORF and Gravogl for more information and is awaiting a response.
Caitlin O'KaneCaitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," CBS News' streaming show that focuses on good news.
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