What fish species where you are is best for eating?

[108831]

I do like swordfish,cant get many on the canal mind...

 

[bullet]

I do like swordfish,cant get many on the canal mind...

I'd avoid that like the plague, about as unsustainable as it gets and being a top marine predator is likely to be full of heavy metals....

 

[terry m]

I tried gurnard in an Italian restaurant last week. Extremely good and highly recommend.

 

[bullet]

Yes, delicious fish are Gurnard, and another one that was just considered pot bait here until quite recently.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

Gurnard are delicious. I get mine from an online supplier in Cornwall. Very tasty fish.

 

[108831]

I dont have swordfish very often,5 or 6 times in my lifetime,cod arent particularly sustainable,but everyone eats them...

 

[Ray Roberts]

The best “rock” I’ve eaten was spurdog. I read recently that they were borderline endangered. It almost made me feel guilty for eating them. I used to sea fish regularly but the decline in catches made me stop. It got to the point that what I would weigh in at a beach competition in the eighties was more than the combined weight of all the competitors in recent beach competitions. I think I definitely had the best of it.


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[108831]

They are borderline endangered,mainly because they are sold as pot bait for pennies and used for fertiliser,rock/huss is only a minor eating fish in the UK compared to cod,haddock,plaice etc,not too many years ago spurdogs littered the bottom off the south coast and Scottish waters,with rod and line captures of 50 plus fish per rod,nets make short work of shoal fish as we know...

 

[taimen]

I detest the taste of freshwater fish, yes I have eaten them when I was a lad. Both perch and pike. I suppose trout and grayling have a similar earthy taste. The only edible fish for me is from the sea.

Some of the freshwater fish are great: inconnu, broad cisco... Among the species from warm waters I should mention pacu and arapaima from the Amazon - these are among the best fish I have ever eaten!
Zander is not native to my home river, the Amur, but presently they are common and rather tasty.

Some of our carps (such as yellowcheek and skygazer) are bony but very good. You could see some of these fish at my blog www.flyfishingrussia.com

Things certainly change over time. Going back a couple of centuries there used to be ‘Gudgeon parties’ held on the banks of the river Thames, where the Ladies and gentlemen used to catch gudgeon; and fry them up and eat them just like white-fry. NB: it must have been a bit upstream of London though as the Thames was full of excrement back in those days
And also Pike were regarded as being much better for the table than Salmon. Plus Lamprey were considered good to eat.

I have a book ‘the fisherman book in pictures’ which has pictures taken from somewhere on the continent showing them netting Carp and Pike with a large Siene net for selling for the table, and using several lakes for a type of crop rotation.

I have eaten Carp and Pike and jellied eel with liquor in the past but didn’t enjoy any of them, my favourite fish to eat are Cod, Haddock and Skate; preferably coated in breadcrumb or batter, together with chips, mushy peas and a Gherkin, plus various Crabs, Prawns and lobsters.

Keith

Lampreys are among the best - if one like their specific oil... Pike is really a great fish to eat unless it is caught in a weedy pond.

 

[Philip]

Arent Arapaima critically endangered ?

 

[steve2]

What an incredible looking pike, the Amur species of pike I believe.

 

[sam vimes]

We do have a strange thing in this country in that we wont eat what we catch but will buy the same thing over the counter at a fishmongers or butchers. Even when it comes to sea fish and game.

Sadly, most people are totally divorced from where food comes from and how it is produced. Too many people seem to think that cellophane and polystyrene are the natural plumage, scales, skin, fur and hide of a multitude of animals Most are either incapable or unwilling to prepare their own meat or fish.

Outside of a very rare fatality, I no longer eat the fish I catch even though it's perfectly legal to take them. Grayling numbers are declining, I've not taken one since the early nineties. The last fish I took was a foul hooked summer trout that fought so long that it expired. That was sometime in the noughties. I have eaten eels, perch, pike, carp, grayling and trout in the past. Butter fried eel segments were probably the best I remember, though grayling are more than merely acceptable.

I rarely shoot my own game these days. However, I can get as much as I can be bothered to prepare, and have room to store, for free. I eat a lot of pheasant, with the occasional duck, woodpigeon, woodcock and hare through the colder months. I wouldn't shoot woodcock or hare myself. However, once they are dead, I hate seeing them left. I rather like both but wish people wouldn't shoot them.