(11 Apr 2013)
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New York - March 29, 2013
1. Wide, Fulton Fish Market
2. Close of fish on ice
3. Mid of red snapper, tilt up to Roberto Nunez, fish buyer
4. Close of list
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Roberto Nunez, fish buyer:
"That's my job. To make sure that what I bring to the restaurants today is top quality."
6. Close, looking at a box of fish with a fish hook
7. SOUNDBITE (English): Roberto Nunez, fish buyer:
"I have to identify through my fish orders what are the items that are hot at the moment. And pretty much right away try to get them."
8. Close, point of view shot looking at a box of fish on ice
9. Wide, Nunez walking through the market
10. Close, looking through a box of Monktails
11. SOUNDBITE (English): Roberto Nunez, fish buyer:
"There's so many challenges in this business. First of all you have the weather. Which is pretty key on what you are going to get tonight or tomorrow."
12. Wide, fishmonger weighing very large fish
13. Close, unpacking a very large fish covered in ice
14. Close, a box of fish
15. Close, a box of red snapper covered in ice
16. Wide of Peter Panteleakis, restaurant owner looking at a box of black sea bass
17. Wide, Panteleakis and his son walking in the market
18. Close, Panteleakis shaking a box of black sea bass packed in ice
19. SOUNDBITE (English): Peter Panteleakis, restaurant owner:
"And the fish nice and bright. The stomach it has to be not soft. Gotta be nice and firm. This is nice and fresh fish."
20. Mid of Panteleakis and his son greeting fishmongers
21. SOUNDBITE (English): Peter Panteleakis, restaurant owner:
"My father, as I told you before passed away a long time ago. He took me to the market in 1967 in the arable market, and he taught me all the how to look at the fish, how they talk to you - the fish, and if they're fresh."
22. Mid of Panteleakis looking at fish
23. SOUNDBITE (English): Nikos Panteleakis, third-generation fish buyer:
"My father and I have been coming here a very, very long time. I grew up here in the fish market."
24. Wide of market
29. Close, forklifts driving around the market
30. Close, red snapper
31. Wide, fishmonger weighing red snapper
32. Close, Fulton Fish Market sign
LEAD IN:
Traders come from across New York to grab the freshest catch of the day.
Fish is big business at the Fulton Fish Market ,and worth over a billion US dollars.
STORYLINE:
Every morning, the Fulton Fish Market is up to fishy business.
It's the world's second largest fish market after Tokyo, and it is the size of six football fields.
The market is located in a 450,000 square foot (41,806 square metre) warehouse in New York's South Bronx.
Visitors flock to the market in the middle of the night, dodging small forklifts that scuttle around the wet floor moving seafood-stuffed cardboard boxes.
And for fish buyer's hoping to score the best quality seafood for the best price, negotiations happen in seconds.
Roberto Nunez is a buyer for about a dozen Manhattan restaurants.
"I have to identify through my fish orders what are the items that are hot at the moment. And pretty much right away try to get them."
He spends the night hunting for the lowest prices matching the highest quality.
"That's my job. To make sure that what I bring the market, to the restaurants today is top quality," Nunez says.
While most New Yorkers sleep, the fishmongers are frantically filleting, selling and packaging seafood.
Around 200-million-pounds a year worth over $1 billion head for mouths across America.
For Peter Panteleakis and his son, buying the freshest fish is a family business.


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