Know Your Fish Types

Fish isn’t like beef or chicken, where it basically has the same taste.  Different fish have different flavors. Here are some tips on those different flavors…Fish with a delicate texture and mild flavor are:

• Pollock (Alaska)
• Catfish
• Flounder
• Orange Roughy
• Skate
• Sole
• Walleye Pike

Delicate texture with a Moderate flavor:

• Lingcod
• Pink Salmon
• Whitefish
• Whiting

Delicate Texture and Full Flavor:

• Butterfish
• Herring
• Sardines
• Smelt

Medium-Firm Texture and Mild Flavor:

• Cod
• Cusk
• Grouper
• Haddock
• Sea Bass
• Snapper
• Tilapia
• Tilefish

Medium-Firm Texture and Moderate Flavor:

• Amberjack
• Buffalo
• Drum
• Mahimahi
• Ocean Perch
• Pompano
• Porgy/Scup
• Redfish
• Rockfish
• Shad
• Rainbow Trout

Medium-Firm Texture and Full Flavor:

• Bluefish
• Carp
• Mackerel
• Sablefish
• Atlantic Salmon
• King Salmon
• Salmon
• Sockeye
• Wahoo

Firm Texture and Mild Flavor:

• Halibut
• Monkfish

Firm Texture and Moderate Flavor:

• Shark
• Sturgeon

Firm Texture and Full Flavor:

• Marlin
• Swordfish
• Tuna

If you know you like one certain type of fish, then try some of the other types in that same category…you might just find a new favorite…