Kosher Fish List
A guide to choosing a kosher fish.
Please note: This list should only be used as a general guide. A kosher and a non-kosher fish may have the same name. To be sure that your fish is kosher, check for fins and scales (scales must be removable either by hand or with a knife without ripping the underlying skin).
Albacore See Mackerels
Alewife See Herrings
Amberjack See Jacks
Anchovies Includes European anchovy and Northern anchovy
Ballyhoo See: Flyingfish
Atlantic Pomfret or Ray's Bream
Bass See Sea Basses, Drums, Sunfish, and Temperate basses.
Blackfish See Carps and Wrasses
Blacksmith See Damselfish
Blueback See Herrings and Trouts
Bluegill See Sunfish
Bocaccio See Scorpionfish
Bonito See Cobia and Mackerels
Bowfin Includes bowfish, freshwater dogfish, and grindle
Bream See Atlantic Pomfret and Carps
Brill See Flounder
Buffalo Fishes See Suckers
Butterfish Includes Pacific pompano and harvestfish
Butterfly fish See Angelfish
Cabrilla See Sea Basses
Calicobass See Sunfish
Capelin See Smelts
Crucian carp
Freshwater breams
Goldfish
Leather carp
Mirror carp
Sacramento blackfish or hardhead
Splittail
Squawfish
Roach
Tench
Caviar Must be from a kosher fish
Cero See Mackerels
Channel bass See Drums
Char See Trouts
Chilipepper See Scorpionfish
Chinook salmons See Trouts
Cichlids Includes cichlios, Mozambique mouthbrooder, Rio Grande perch, tilapias
Cigarfish See Jacks
Cisco See Trouts
Coalfish See Codfish
Cobia, cabio, or black bonito Includes cultus cod and ling. See Greenlings
Blue whiting or poutassou
Cod
Haddock
Hakes
Pacific cod
Pollock, saithe, or coalfish
Tomcods or frostfish
Walleye pollock
Whiting
Coho salmon See Trouts
Corbina or Corvina, See Drums
Cottonwick See Grunts
Crappie See Sunfish
Crevalle See Jacks
Croacker See Drums
Crucian carp See Carps
Cubbyu See Drums
Cunner See Wrasses
Dab See Flounders
Damselfish Includes blacksmith and garibaldi
Doctorfish See Surgeonfish
Dolly Varden See Trouts
Dolphin fish or mahi mahis Not to be confused with the mammal called dolphin or porpoise, which is non kosher.
Black croaker
California corbina
Croakers
Cubbyu or ribbon fish
Drums
Freshwater drum
Kingfish or king whitings
Queenfish
Red drum or channel bass
Seatrouts and carvinas
Silver perch
Spotfin croaker
Spotfish or lafayette
Weakfish
White or King croaker
White seabass
Yellowfin croaker
Eulachon See Smelts
Flounders
Starry flounder
Summer flounder or fluke
Yellowtail flounder
Winter flounder, lemon sole, or blackback
Halibuts
Soles
Bigmouth sole
Butter of scalyfin sole
Dover sole
English sole}
Fantail sole
Petrale sole
Rex sole
Rock sole
Sand Sole
Slender sole
Yellowfin sole
Turbot
Pacific turbots
Curlfin turbot or sole
Diamond turbot
Greenland turbot or halibut
NOT INCLUDING European Turbot
American plaice
Brill
Dabs
European plaice
Sanddabs
Fluke See Flounders
Flyingfish and halfbeaks Includes Ballyhoo or balao
Frostfish See Codfish
Gag See Sea basses
Garibaldi See Damselfish
Gizzard shad See Herrings
Goatfish or surmullets Includes goatfish, kumu, red mullet, and wekes
Gobies Includes bigmouth sleeper or guavina and Sirajo goby
Goldfish See Carps
Grayling See Trouts
Graysby See Sea basses
Greenlings Includes atkamackerel, cultus orblue cod, greenlings, kelp greenling or seatrout, and lingcod
Grindle See Bowfin
Grouper See Sea basses
Grunion See Silversides
Black margate
Cottonwick
Grunts
Margate
Pigfish
Porkfish
Sailors choice
Sargo
Tomtate
Guavina See Gobies
Haddock See Codfish
Hakes Includes hakes, Pacific hake or meriuccio, and silver hake or whiting. See Codfish
Halfbeak See Flyingfish
Halfmoon See Sea chubs
Halibut See Flounders
Hamlet See Sea Basses
Hardhead See Carps
Harvestfish See Butterfish
Hawkfish
Alewife or river herring
Atlantic and Pacific herring
European sardine or pilchard
Gizzard shads
Glut herring or blueback
Hickory shad
Menhadens or mossbunkers
Pacific sardine or pilchard
Thread herrings
Shads
Spanish sardines
Spart
Hind See Sea bass
Hogchocker See Soles
Hogfish See Wrasses
Horse mackerel See Jacks
Jack Mackerel See Jacks
Amberjacks
Blue runner
California yellowtail
Crevalles
Jack mackerel or horse mackerel
Jacks and uluas
Leatherback or lae
Lookdown
Moonfish
Pompanos, palometas, and permits
Rainbow runner
Scads and cigarfish
Yellowtails
NOT INCLUDING Leatherjacket
Jacksmelt See Silversides
Jewfish See Sea basses
John Dory
Kelpfish See Giant kelpfish
Kingfish See Drums and Mackerels
Lafayette See Drums
Lake Herring See Trouts
Largemouth bass See Sunfish
Leatherback See Jacks
Lingcod See Greenlings
Lizardfish
Lookdown See Jacks
Mackerels, Atka See Greenlings
Albacore tunas
Bonitos
Mackerels
King mackerel or kingfish
Skipjack tunas
Spanish mackerels, cero, and sierra
Tunas
NOT INCLUDING Snake mackerels
Mahi mahi See Dolphin fish
Margate See Grunts
Marlin
Menhaden See Herrings
Menpachii See Squirrelfish
Merluccio See Hakes
Milkfish or awa
Mojarras
Mooneye See Goldeye
Moonfsh See Jacks
Mossbunker See Herrings
Mouthbrooder See Cichlids
Mullets Includes mullets and amaamas, mountain mullets or dajaos, and uouoa
Muskellunge See Pikes
Mutton hamlet See Sea basses
Muttonfish See Snappers
Needlefish Includes marine gars
Opaleye See Sea chubs
Palometa See Jacks
Parrotfishs Includes uhus
Perches Includes pike perch, sauger, walleye, yellow perch, and yellow or blue pike
Permit See Jacks
Pickerel See Pike
Pigfish See Grunts
Pikes Includes pickerels and muskellunge
Pikeperch See Perches
Pilchard See Herrings
Pinfish See Porgies
Plaice See: Flounders
Pollock See Codfish
Pompano See Butterfish and Jack
Porgies and sea breams Includes pinfish, scup, and sheepshead
Porkfish See Grunts
Poutassou See Codfish
Queenfish See Drums
Quillback See Suckers
Rabalo See Snooks
Ray's bream See Atlantic Pomfret
Red snapper See Snappers
Redfish See Scorpionfish and Wrasses
Roach See Carps
Rock bass See Sunfish
Rockhind See Sea basses
Rockfish See Scorpionfish and Temperate basses
Rosefish See Scorpionfish
Rudderfish See Sea chubs
Runner See Jack
Sailors choice See Grunts
Saithe See Codfish
Salmon See Trouts
Sardine See Herrings
Sargo See Grunts
Sauger See Perches
Scad See Jacks
Scamp See Sea basses
Schoolmaster See Snappers
Bocaccio
California scorpionfish or sculpin
Chilipepper
Nohus
Pacific ocean perch
Redfish, rosefish, or ocean perch
Rockfish
Scorpionfish
Shortspine thornyhead or channel rockfish
Scup See Porgies
Black sea basses
Gag
Graysby
Groupers
Jewfish
Mutton hamlet
Red hind
Rockhind
Sand bass, kelp bass, and spotted bass
Scamp
Speckled hind
Spotted cabrilla
Sea bream See Porgies
Sea chubs Includes Bermuda chug or rudderfish, halfmoon, and opaleye
Seaperch See Surfperches
Seatrout See Drums and Greenlings
Shad See Herrings
Sheepshead See Porgies and Wrasses
Sierra See Mackerels
California grunion
Jacksmelt
Topsmelt
Whitebait, spearing, or silversides
Sirajo goby See Gobies
Skipjack See Mackerels
Sleeper See Gobies
Smallmouth bass See Sunfish
Smelts Includes capelin and eulachon
Snapper blue See Bluefish
Kalikali
Muttonfish or mutton snapper
Onaga
Opakapaka
Red snapper
Schoolmaster
Snappers
Yellowtail snapper
Sockeye salmon See Trouts
Soles Includes hogchoker, lined sole, and true sole. See Flounders
Spanish mackerel See Mackerels
Spearing See Silversides
Splitttail See Carps
Spot See Drums
Sprat See Herrings
Squawfish See Carp
Squirrelfish Includes Menpachii
Steelhead See Trouts
Striped bass See Temperate basses
Suckers Includes buffalo fish and quillbacks or carpsuckers
Bluegill
Crappies or calico basses
Freshwater basses
Largemouth bass
Rock bass or red eye
Smallmouth bass
Sunfish
Warmouth
Blackperth
Pile perch
Seaperches
Shiner perch
Surfperches
Surgeonfish Includes doctorfish, surgeonfish and tangs, and unicornfish or kalas
Tang See Surgeonfish
Tautog See Wrasses
Temperate basses Includes giant California sea bass,striped bass or rockfish, yellow bass, white bass, and white perch
Tench See Carps
Tenpounder See Ladyfish
Threadfins Includes barbu, blue bobo, and moi
Tilapia See Cichlids
Tilefish Includes ocean whitefish
Tomcod See Codfish
Tomtate See Grunts
Tomsmelt See Silversides
Atlantic salmon
Chinook, king or spring salmon
Chum, dog or fall salmon
Coho or silver salmon
Pacific salmons
Pink or humpback salmon
Sockeye, blueback or red salmon
Trouts
Arctic char
Brook trout
Brown trout, rainbow trout or steelhead
Chars
Cutthroat trout, golden trout
Dolly Varden
Lake trout
Whitefish and ciscos
Cisco or lake herring
Chubs
Graylings
Tuna See Mackerels
Turbot (some species) See Flounder
Unicornfish See Surgeonfish
Wahoo See Mackerels
Walleye See Perches
Walleye pollock See Codfish
Warmouth See Sunfish
Weakfish See Drums
Whitefish See Tilefish and Trouts
Whiting See: Codfish, Drums, and Hakes
Aawas
California sheephead or redfish
Capitaine
Cunner, chogset, or bergall
Hogfish
Tautog or blackfish
Yellowtail See Jacks
Yellowtail snapper See Snappers
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