Sydney Fish Market

This guide to the Sydney Fish Market explains the Dutch clock auction that runs here each dawn, a descending-price system borrowed from seventeenth-century tulip traders that replaced decades of shouted bidding on the market floor. It follows how buyers race the clock to lock in a price on crates of fish and other seafood arriving from across Australia and New Zealand, and introduces the wheelers who rush each lot away once a bid lands. Arrive before dawn if you want to see the clocks running for yourself.