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
