Is Escolar kosher?

Colin Rosenthal

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Apr 23, 2001, 3:14:40 AM4/23/01

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Is the fish Escolar kosher? My dictionary defines it as "rough-scaled
and resembling the mackerel", which sounds hopeful.

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Colin Rosenthal
Astrophysics Institute
University of Oslo

Jordi Sod

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Apr 23, 2001, 8:51:06 AM4/23/01

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>===== Original Message From colin.r...@astro.uio.no =====

>Is the fish Escolar kosher? My dictionary defines it as "rough-scaled
>and resembling the mackerel", which sounds hopeful.

With such a name, the fish is surely a Yiddishe kop!

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>Colin Rosenthal
>Astrophysics Institute
>University of Oslo

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Ana Kurland

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Apr 23, 2001, 4:56:53 PM4/23/01

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How about Conger Eel? It's not really an eel, but I can't find if it has
scales/fins.
I'm going to Chile in a month and this fish is very popular.

Harry Weiss

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Apr 23, 2001, 7:31:04 PM4/23/01

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Colin Rosenthal <colin.r...@astro.uio.no> wrote:

It is not listed in Rabbi Eidlitz' book as either kosher ornon Kosher.

Perhaps you may wish to contact him directly at www.kosherquest.org. He
usually responds within a day.

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Harry J. Weiss
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Apr 23, 2001, 8:20:30 PM4/23/01

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In soc.culture.jewish.moderated on 23 Apr 2001 20:56:53 GMT Ana
Kurland <ak...@yahoo.com> posted:

>How about Conger Eel? It's not really an eel, but I can't find if it has
>scales/fins.
>I'm going to Chile in a month and this fish is very popular.

http://www.congerclub.org/ This is a British club.

The conger eel Congridae conger conger

The conger eel is found all round the British Isles, and other
Northern European coastlines. It prefers rough ground, preferably a
reef or a wreck, in depths down to about 100m. It grows to a maximum
of 3m long and about 250-300lb in weight.

It's usually not that difficult to identify a conger, but if
you're in any doubt, the following should help. The
conger is usually a grey colour, though this can vary
from a pale grey or brownish through to almost black.

The skin is scaleless and the upper jaw protrudes
beyond the lower.
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[The picture was unclear, but maybe it had two little fins up front,
or maybe ears, but it seems moot.]

The British and World record stands at an enormous
133lb 4oz, taken by Vic Evans in 1995. He was fishing
on Sea Spray II out of Brixham. However, much larger
eels have been taken by trawlers, including several over
200lb.

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Jeffrey Smith

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Apr 24, 2001, 2:57:34 PM4/24/01

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On 23 Apr 2001 07:14:40 GMT, colin.r...@astro.uio.no (Colin
Rosenthal) wrote:

>Is the fish Escolar kosher? My dictionary defines it as "rough-scaled
>and resembling the mackerel", which sounds hopeful.

The Escolar is a member of the Gempylidae family (Snake Mackerels),
its Latin name is Lepidocybium Flavobrunneum, and it is classed as
being Kosher.

Jeffrey Smith.

Colin Rosenthal

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Apr 25, 2001, 2:42:48 AM4/25/01

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On 24 Apr 2001 18:57:34 GMT,

Thanks. I see it on a lot of restaurant menus at the moment - I guess
it's trendy - and I'm about to have a visitor who eats kosher fish in
non-kosher restaurants.