Kosher Fish

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If you enter your fish’s common name into www.fishbase.org’s search engine, you’ll see that you get numerous results.

It is impossible to say for a fact that they are all kosher.  Some fish referred to as that name may be kosher, so it might be worth looking into.  The way to know if your fish is a kosher one, is by checking its kosher status yourself (don’t worry, we’ll tell you exactly how):

1. First make sure the skin is still intact (with the scales still attached).  If the fish is skinned before you can confirm its kosher status, it can no longer be considered kosher.

2. Have the person selling the fish remove a scale from the fish in front of you.

3. Make sure the skin did not rip from the process of removing the scale.  If the scale comes out cleanly… congratulations!  You have yourself a kosher fish.  If not, try this procedure on another type of yummy friend from “down under” (water that is) until you get one whose scales can be removed without ripping the skin.

4. As much as we might like to, we cannot rely on the fish seller to tell us a fish is kosher.  Even if the seller tells you it is a kosher fish, you have to confirm the kosher status with the scale removal procedure mentioned above.

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