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Deep sea fish... Chauliodus variety?

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Deep sea fish... Chauliodus variety?

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  1. Found this at the fish market. Was so interesting I asked for the fish. Will try take better pics with macro lens.

    Any ideas?

     

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  2. FYI, it's a Bombay Duck, Harpodon Nehereus.

    Edited by Drew
  3. Thanks Drew. How did it taste, like chicken?

     

    Bart

  4. Don't eat seafood anymore, so can't tell ya. :)

  5. Trawler by-catch?

  6. Just a little info taken from http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/mar/22/bombay-duck-mumbai-fish

     

    Bombay duck, or bombil as it is called locally, is one of Mumbai's polarising culinary experiences. This charmingly misnamed delicacy is actually a fish, whose pungent odour is part of that special love-it-or-hate it-Mumbai smell. It got its name in the days of the Raj, from being transported on an iconic train, the Bombay Daak, daak being the Hindi word for mail. The term was then bastardised to duck, which stuck.

     

    Sounds like an acquired taste

     

    Bart

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