Fish
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Silver Carp
Common names: Silver Carp, Asian Carp
Scientific name: Hypophthalmichthys Molitrix
Sizes: Silver carp is available in fully dressed, fillets, steak cuts, horseshoe cuts, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!
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Bighead Carp
Common names: big head, silver big head, black big head, bighead carp, noble fish, speckled armor, lake fish, tongsan, Chinese fish
Scientific name: Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Sizes: Deep bodied fish with tiny scales and gray to black blotches on body, which gives them a speckled appearance. Bighead can reach 60 pounds or more. A 4-year-old fish may weigh up to 20 – 25 pounds. The primary market size is for 6 to 12-pound fish.
Features and benefits: The many bones are what have kept bighead carp out of the U.S. fresh fish markets, except those frequented by Asian shoppers. Worldwide, this Chinese delicacy is the most eaten fish, and it’s considered the Cadillac of fish in Asian countries. The product feature is firm, clean, and slightly translucent with metallic sheens like that of whitefish and trout. Product taste is not fishy, similar to Pollock Will readily absorb spices and marinades. The large head is desirably prepared in soup.
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Common Carp
Common names: German carp, European carp, scaled carp, leather carp, mirror carp, bigmouth bass, king carp, Israeli carp.
Scientific name: Cyprinus carpio
Sizes: common carp is available in fully dressed, fillets, steak cuts, horseshoe cuts, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more! 9 inches to 3 foot long and weights of 2 to 30 pounds(1 to 14 kgs).
Features and benefits: The fish has a heritage in native Europe and Asia as the menu for royalty as a delicacy food. As the cost of protein-based foods escalates, utilization of over-abundant and inexpensive fishes as substitutes will be found. Carp are relatively easy to acquire and are inexpensive. Carp has the preeminent advantage over such fish as the black bass, trout, grayling, and others in that it is a vegetable feeder. Carp when processed, can taste a good deal better than some so-called game species. Carp can be baked, pickled, smoked, steamed, fried, prepared as gefilte fish, or put into chowders or soups. It can be ground and stuffed into sausages or made into appetizing fish spreads, patties, or pies.
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Bigmouth Buffalo
Common names: common buffalo, gourdhead buffalo, redmouth buffalo fish, stubnose buffalo, mud buffalo, lake buffalo, slough buffalo
Scientific name: Ictiobus – Greek cyprinellus – Latin
Sizes: Commonly up to 30 inches and 15 pounds (6.8 kgs), but 30-40 pound fish are not unusual.
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Smallmouth Buffalo
Common names: blue pancake, brown buffalo, suckermouth buffalo, rooter, razorback, quillback buffalo, carp, humped-back buffalo, liner, touchback
Scientific name: Ictiobus – Greek bubalus – Greek
Sizes: Smallest of the buffalo fish, but can grow up to 15 pounds. It is usually considered superior in flavor to the other species.
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Quillback
Common names: carpsucker, American carp, silver carp, eastern carpsucker, plains, highfin carp sucker, shad, white carp, white buffalo
Scientific name: carpiodes velifer rafinesque (Latin), cyprinus (Greek)
Sizes: Most adult quillbacks fall into the 12 to 15-inch class and weigh 3 pounds or so.
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Freshwater Drum
Common names: white perch, sheepshead, gaspergou, goo, croaker, thunderpumper, crocus, silver bass, gray perch, lake drum, jewel-head, grunt, bubbler, grinder, river drum
Scientific name: morone Americana, aplodinotus, grunniens
Sizes: Commonly reaching 1/2 pound and occasionally as large as 8 pounds.
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Grass Carp
Common names: grass carp, white amur
Scientific name: Ctenopharyngodon
Sizes: Grass Carp is available in fully dressed, fillets, steak cuts, horseshoe cuts, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!
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Black Bullhead
Common names: black bullhead, brown bullhead, yellow bullhead
Scientific name: ictalurus natalis
Sizes: Black Bullhead fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!
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Channel Catfish
Common names: channel catfish
Scientific name: ictalurus punctatus
Sizes: channel catfish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!
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