General List of Biblically Clean Fish

Source:  Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America


                   

Albacore (or Crevalle or Horse Mackerel or Jack)

Alewives (or Branch Herring or River Herring)

Anchovies

Black Drum

Bluebacks (or Glut Herrings)

Bluebill Sunfish

Bluefish

Blue Runner (or Hardtail)

Bonitos

Boston Bluefish (or Pollock)

Bowfin

Buffalofish

Butterfish

Carp

Chubs:
   Bloater
   Longjaw
   Blackfin

Cod

Common Sucker (or Fresh Water Mullet or White Sucker)

Crappies (or Black Crappies or White Crappies)

Crevalle (see Albacore)

Flounder 
   Dab
   Gray Sole
   Lemon Sole
   Summer Flounder 
   Winter Flounder
   Yellow Tail

Fresh Water Mullet (see Common Sucker

Frost Fish (or Ice Fish or Smelt)

Groupers 
   Black. Grouper
   Gag  
   Nassau Grouper  
   Red Grouper
   Yellowfish Grouper

Grunts
   White Grunts
   Yellow Grunts

Gulf Pike (or Robalo, Snook, or Sergeant)

Haddock

Hake

Halibut

Hardtail (see Blue Runner)

Herring
   Branch Herring (see Alewives) 
   Glut Herring (see Bluebacks)    Lake Herring
   River Herring (see Alewives)
   Sea Herring

Horse Mackerel (see Albacore)

Ice Fish (see Frost Fish)

Jack (see Albacore)

Kingfish

Long Nose Sucker (or Northern Sucker or Red Striped Sucker)

Mackerel

Menhaden

Mullet

Muskeilunge (or Jacks)

Northern Sucker (see Long Nose Sucker)

Pickerels (or Jacks)

Pig Fish

Pikes (or Jacks)

P.ilchards (or Sardines)

Pollack (see Boston Bluefish)

Pompano

Porgy (also known as Scup)

Red Drum (also known as Redfish)

Red . Horse Sucker (also known as Redfin)

Red Snapper

Red Striped Sucker (see Long Nose Sucker)

Redfin (see Red Horse Sucker)

Redfish

Robalo (see Gulf Pike)

Rockfish

Salmon (Chum, Coho, King, Pink and Red)

Sardine (see Pilchards)

Scup (see Porgy)

Sea Bass

Sergeant Fish (see Gulf Pike)

Shad

Sheepshead

Silver Hake (or Whiting)

Silversides

Smelt (see Frost Fish)

Snook (see Gulf Pike)

Spanish Mackerel

Striped Bass

Trouts
   Gray Sea Trouts (or Weakfish) 
   Lake Trout 
   Sand Sea Trout (or White Sea Trout)
   Spotted Sea Trout

Tunas
   Albacore
   Bluefin 
   Yellowfin
   Shipjack

Weakfish (see Trouts, Gray Sea Trout)

White Fish

White Sucker (see Common Sucker)

Whiting (see Silver Hake)

Yellow Perch

A General List of Biblically Unclean "Sea Foods"

Abalones
Bullheads
Catfish
Clams
Crabs
Crayfish
Eel (all forms)
Lobster
Oysters
Scallop
Shark
Shrimp
Squid
Sturgeon
Swordfish

                   



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