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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Who ever knew there were so many different types of fish?!

I honestly don't know where you would go about finding half of these..


Oily fishWhite fish
Anchovies
Carp
Eel
Herring (Bloater)
Hilsa
Jack (also known as Scad, Horse mackerel and Trevally)
Kipper (herring)
Mackerel
Orange roughy
Pilchards
Salmon
Sardines
Sprats
Swordfish
Trout
Tuna (fresh)
Whitebait
Brill
Catfish
Cod
Coley
Dab
Dover sole
Flounder
Flying fish
Gurnard
Haddock
Hake
Halibut
Hoki
John Dory
Lemon sole
Ling
Marlin
Monkfish
Pangas (also known as River cobbler, Basa or Pangasius)
Parrot fish
Plaice
Pollack
Pomfret (also known as Butterfish)
Red and grey mullet
Redfish (also known as Ocean perch or Rose fish)
Snapper (also known as Jobfish and Red snapper)
Rock salmon/Dogfish (also known as Flake, Huss, Rigg or Rock eel)
Rohu (also known as Ruhi)
Sea bass
Sea bream (also known as Porgy)
Shark
Skate
Tilapia
Tuna (canned)
Turbot
Whiting

Apparently, for good health you're supposed to eat at least two portions of fish per week, but no more than one portion of oily fish. The reason I stumbled across this list was that today we bought some Basa from Sainsbury's - a fictional fish if ever I heard one. It was actually really delicious! I looked it up, and apparently it's a Vietnamese Catfish.. I guess it might have put me off had it said that on the packet! I'm quite intrigued now though, I think I'm going to have to seek out all of these other weird and wonderful fish and see what they're like! Apart from Flounder and Dory of course, that's just mean. Lets hope no more ocean-based Disney films come out any time soon.

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