I've got a couple of looming deadlines but wanted to point you all to a pictorial about a visit we made over the weekend to a fish farm near Pulau Ketam that Dave has posted on his photo blog.
At the farm we watched workers wrestle several longdan (a type of fish - anyone know its name in English?) from the water. Longdan sell, at wholesale, for a whopping 50 ringgit per kilo. The farm purchases longdan 'babies' for 40 ringgit each; after 2 years they reach about 15 kilos (like the ones we saw harvested) in weight. Give them another 2 or 3 years and they can weigh up to 50. That's RM 2,500 (about U$725 per fish).
Though this farm ships their fish as far as Hong Kong, the longdan we saw were destined for a dinner table somewhere on the Malaysian peninsula. I wonder if those longdan tasted like U$725. Unfortunately, we were not invited to join the feast.