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Clean and Unclean Seafood

from "Yahweh's Food Laws"

Biblically Clean Fish (Must have both fins and scales)

Albacore (Crevalle, Horse Mackerel, Jack)
Alewive (Branch Herring, River Herring)
Anchovy
Barracuda
Bass
Black Drum
Blackfish
Blueback (Glut Herring) (Hardtail)
Bonitos
Boston Bluefish (Pollack)
Bowfin
Buffalofish
Butterfish
Carp
Chub (Bloater, Longjaw, Blackfin)
Cod
Crappie
Crevalle (Albacore)
Croaker
Darter
Flounder (Dab, Gray Sole, Yellow Tail)
Frost Fish (Ice Fish, Smelt)
Gaby
Graylin
Groupers (Gag)
Gruntsg
Gulf Pike (Robalo, Snook, Sergeant)
Haddock
Hake
Halibut
Hardtail (Blue Runner)
Herring
Horse Mackerel (Albacore)
Ice Fish (Frost Fish)
Jack (Albacore)
Kingfish
Long Nose Sucker (Northern Sucker, Red Striped Sucker)
Mackerel
Menhaden Mullet
Muskellunge (Jack)
Orange Roughy
Perch
Pickerel (Jack)
Pig Fish
Pike (Jack)
Pilchard (Sardine)
Pollack
Pompano
Porgy (Scup)
Red Drum (Redfish)
Redfin (Red Horse Sucker)
Red Snapper
Red Striped Sucker (Long Nose Sucker)
Robalo (Gulf Pike)
Rockfish
Salmon (Chum, Coho, King, Pink, Red)
Sardine (Pilchard)
Scup (Porgy)
Sea Bass
Sergeant Fish (Gulf Pike)
Shad
Sheepshead
Silver Hake (Whiting)
Silversides
Smelt (Frost Fish)
Snook (Gulf Pike)
Spanish Mackerel
Striped Bass
Sucker
Tarpon
Trout
Tuna (Albacore, Bluefin, Yellowfin, Shipjack)
Weakfish
Whitefish
White Sucker
Whiting (Silver Hake)
Yellow Perch


Biblically Unclean Fish and Seafood

Abalone
Bullhead
Catfish
Clam
Crab
Crayfish
Eel
Lobster
Mussel
Oyster
Paddlefish (Spoonbill)
Scallop
Sculpin
Shark
Shrimp
Squid
Stickleback
Sturgeon (caviar)
Swordfish
Whale

If there is a fish you have a question about, and don’t see it listed, then we recommend a search for “kosher fish” in your local library, bookstore, or on the internet.