FOCUS: Australians enjoy access to luxury food as restaurants, exports shut

With export markets and restaurants shuttered for weeks in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Australian producers and wholesalers have begun selling high-end stock directly to the public, giving ordinary households rare access to luxury meats and seafood.Before the pandemic, Walker Seafoods Australia exported up to 80 percent of its catch -- predominantly yellowfin and big-eye tuna -- to restaurants in Japan and the United States. Domestic sales from the Queensland-based business, which is also Australia's largest wild-caught tuna fishery, were reserved for some of the country's most we…READ FULL ARTICLE