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Markets in Melbourne Queen Victoria Market | Old Fish Market| The Eastern and Western Market|Food In Markets|Bibliography | |Dakota's Reflection| Alex's Reflection|Mindmap | CBD Homepage ​ Old Fish Market The Old Fish Market was established in 1890. It was also demolished in 1959 to make way for Flinders Station, but they found a new site in Footscray in West Melbourne. It was located south east of Flinder and Spencer streets. The Old Fish Market covered 2.3 hectares near Spencer street. There was a railroad that helped the fisherman carry some of their goods and produce up near the river. They were normally caught in Yarra Falls and Queens Wharf, which was nice and fresh ,but now they got some polluted fish because the Yarra Falls is now polluted. The kind of fish they had were schnapper, flathead, sea pike, salmon, tuna, garfish and much more. Their is such a variety of stores even though its a fish market, they have a section of toys and games for the little kids, clothing for the parents and kids, meat, homeware equipment, jewellery, a food court with alot of international flavours of different kind of foods and they had a pet section with different kind of animals. The way they caught the fish was with nets and they would be taken from Hastings in baskets to the fish market so they can sell them for good prices.

In about a couple of years time the population of Melbourne grew in the gold rush and so they demanded food including the fresh fish which was increased and was required as a better facility. There were some big complaints from the public mainly to do with the dirty disorganized conditions, noise and the smell of the market which was the dead fish. The problems there were clearly getting worse with the fishermans seeking better prices and controls, dealers wanting a better market place and better conditions and consumers wanting lower prices because they were to high. In a couple of years time the market moved out and people were happy. The market was moved to Princess Bridge for the new Fish Market.