What fish can I eat as sushi.
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Topic: What fish can I eat as sushi.
Posted By: Hayden35285
Subject: What fish can I eat as sushi.
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:07pm
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So I really like sushi and spearing my dinner. I would love to combine the two. Not at the same time but one shorty after the other. But im a little unsure about which species taste good raw and don't have worms or parasites. A little help please from the raw fish eaters of this forum. |
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Posted By: Dan F
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:14pm
| My mrs took me to dinner to martin bosly's posh as restaurant on oriental parade, and i had a butterfish snapper and tuna trio sushimi sp? So all those three are safe! since then I've tried slithers of terakihi, snapper, butterfish and kingi when I've been filleting. I'd stay clear of barracuda in terms of worms.. other than that should be sweet for most table species? |
Posted By: Kenshin
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:14pm
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Trevs(the best), Kingis(esp near the belly part), KY and snapper(some ppl do but I dont). cuta=worms galore ------------- Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger. –Herbert Hoover |
Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:16pm
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koheru, kingy, trevally... They say you should freeze your fish before eating it as sashimi to kill any parasites. |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:16pm
| Koheru is my favourite. |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:22pm
| Boarfish and snapper can be good too - especially after a day in the fridge. Outside of yellowfin which I can't seem to spear, koheru in my favourite |
Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:25pm
| Jack mackrel is stunning |
Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:42pm
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Trevs the fave of the species I can get (had some tonight). I also really like jack macks, koheru, kingi, snapper and kahawai. Contrary to some peoples thoughts I find the belly section a bit chewy. I prefer the meat close to the spine, preferably in the shoulder section (but not too close to the head). Anything nearer the tail or skin tends to be chewy. I have tried blue cod, butters, tarakihi, gurnard and blue moki and the taste is good but the texture is not so great. Salmon and tuna have to be some of the best but not for gathering... In the US it is compulsory to freeze sushi grade fish before serving to kill any bacteria. In Japan they think fresh is best (for the most part). I go with fresh. I use the two chopping board method, fillet and skin on one, transfer clean fillet to the second board for slicing. Wipe the knife with a clean cloth frequently. Bled, gutted and gilled fish work best for me as less risk of mess on the fillet. I think it is important to have a nice clean fillet with no water (from washing etc) on the flesh. Add sashimi shoyu (sashimi soy) and coppers folly (NZ fresh) wasabi and you have a party in your mouth. A couple of pics from the archive blue cod (chompy)  Jack mack (awesome)  enjoy! dk |
Posted By: JRDO
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 9:15pm
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Enjoyed with a Sapporo, class act. ------------- BANNED from doing anything about anything anymore. |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 9:21pm
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Kingfish my favourite, followed by koheru. Also snapper, John Dory, tarakihi.
Tuna if you can get it, obviously.
I don't like trevally no matter what you do with it. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 9:25pm
| Sapporo is like Lion Red in Japan. Their whisky is alright though. |
Posted By: kolt45
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 9:40pm
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Albacore, duh! Most excellent. I prefer oily fish for sashimi, which are usually open water fish. White fleshed fish like butters and tarakihi (besides being generally suck anyway) are left for the fryer. |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 10:08pm
| I don't rate albacore for sashimi, its ok, but would rather have koheru any time. Crayfish sashimi is pretty good too. If you want to do something different with raw fish, make kingfish carpaccio. Cut thin slices, and dress them with extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper, finely chopped garlic and parsley. Add some capers if you want - yum! |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 10:09pm
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Turkey, Trevs, koheru and blue cod in our house are the favorites.
------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: case
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 10:11pm
| most of the bugs are in the guts and start moving out into the flesh when the fish is dead so gut them straight away for eating raw .i agree with dd , they taste way nicer after a day or 2 in the fridge.the flesh relaxes and tastes better.my mrs is a jap so we have heaps of raw fish:crays and paua,octopus,blue cods ok,and those koheys mmm i could eat one like a cob of corn i recon. |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 10:15pm
| I spent 5 weeks on a Japanese tuna pole and line boat. They virtually never ate the fish the same day it was caught. They rated tarakihi and snapper. They also ate a lot of sunfish sashimi. |
Posted By: SteveByrne
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 10:31pm
| I am with TSW on the Trevally - it tastes grim especially raw. Kingfish or Kohe is my fave. I reckon Kingy and Snapper taste better if you leave them to rest for a day before eating it raw, it has less rigor. |
Posted By: Hayden35285
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 12:25am
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This is some great info, im going to target a few species this weekend for raw consumption. I grew up fishing around the Gulf, is yellow tail another name for Koheru? If so I had no idea they were on the menu, always a by catch on the boat or for a balloon and tail hook. |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 7:09am
| Yellowtail usually refers to jack mackerel. Jack mackerel are oval in cross section, koheru are rounder. Both good sashimi |
Posted By: tom1
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 8:22am
| DD, what's the record for a Koheru? We got some corkers on Sunday! |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 9:08am
| 1.75kg |
Posted By: piebuss
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 9:18am
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I'd heard NZ Sunfish has some toxins in that are less than ideal, not that anybody here would shoot one. It would be pretty poor sportsmanship to just jump in next to one of these and spear it.....
Gotta agree with the majority here, Koheru are amazing and serve a double purpose too :) Shoot one and as you bring it in make sure you're buddy is loaded up and you may have a kingie come in to check it out..... Has worked for me many times, and either way, you go home with a nice fish for sashimi.....
I rate Trevs highly too, nice & firm and a bit oily is best. That could be taken out of context.....
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Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 9:23am
| Toxins in sunfish? Where did you hear that? And what's the difference between shooting a sunfish and a JD or boarfish? Maybe they are under utilised! |
Posted By: piebuss
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 9:30am
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I think I heard it from my old man when I was a kid on the boat and we saw heaps over one summer. It but got reinforced by my Mrs who is a marine biologist. One of her friends was doing a masters on something they may or may not excrete into the water to deter sharks. I haven't heard back on what her results were for the masters though.....
I reckon they are just such a sitting target and in my opinion they belong in the same M C Hammer bucket as dolphins and sharks.
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Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 9:42am
| And a JD isn't a sitting target? |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 10:06am
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Save a Jellyfish - eat a sunfish ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 10:11am
| I speared some (sitter) blue cod yesterday - swam out off the coast south of Cape Egmont. There was a blue line where the viz was 15m plus. The blue cod (very tasty by the way) were packed full of salps and jellyfish. I felt proud of the way I saved the lives of a few jellyfish. |
Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 10:32am
| Wrt sunfish - one could try it by simply swimming alongside with a knife and some wasabi? |
Posted By: tom1
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 10:58am
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what do sunfish taste like? anything like moon fish? If so we should be out nailing them!
u ever seen a moonfish in the water DD? and i don't mean those "special" hairy arsed ones
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Posted By: MiletNZ
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 11:06am
| I love Tarakihi Sashimi mmm so good. |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 11:37am
| Would love to see a moonfish in the water - I reckon they would go as well! No, sunfish don't taste like them - more like lobster or crab. Lovely delicate shellfish flavour. |
Posted By: JAKE D
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 12:20pm
| sorry for the noob question, but is isnt it illegal to take sunfish? or just un-ethical? i swear i saw somewhere that it was illegal |
Posted By: Fissure
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 12:56pm
feeding time at the Zoo. we love to make sushi, but usually from smoked salmon from the shop, (its still raw). have played around with kingy, but not much else. i'd say kahawai would be great, stinky blue cod-gutted and bled immediately, Trevally is supposed to be the best in the world?, tarakihi as well. Sushi is some of the best food in the world! obviously, Iki'ing and icing, bleeding etc is imperitive.
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Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 12:59pm
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Sushi = rice with maybe nori, chicken, veges, fish etc Sashimi = raw fish So, sushi might have sashimi on it, but sushi is not raw fish
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Posted By: Hayden35285
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 12:14am
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Do you bleed in the water on the float line after you kill them or on shore? This has been a very helpful post thanks for the info. Also where do Koheru like to hang out? im on south coast Wellington. |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 2:54pm
 Today I am having albacore kebabs |
Posted By: Ces
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 4:38pm
| nice albie DD! |
Posted By: felixx
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 4:45pm
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Down here, I gut and gill my fish before I put em on my stringer, however there is a lot of water between sharks. ------------- Originally posted by TG LMAO felixx, you a sick puppy! hehe |
Posted By: Unclejake
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 5:57pm
| Nice shot DD. Brilliant! |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 6:11pm
| Yep, got 1 on spear, 7 on line plus a nice skippie, then 3 nice crays on the way in. That was the morning. Domestic duties this arvo |
Posted By: felixx
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 6:20pm
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Just saw the spear on that albie....
AWESOME stuff
Would be like catching a bullet between your teeth hitting an ablie with a spear ------------- Originally posted by TG LMAO felixx, you a sick puppy! hehe |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 9:36pm
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Cool. Well done. Did you see schools of them? Water must hold its temp up there. Wellington S-coast has dropped 1 degree since last week. Autumn is here 
------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 10:20pm
| Water was 18-19. No schools, just ones and twos. Nice and clear. |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 10:35pm
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no kings seen?
------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 10:39pm
| I saw some tuesday, further inshore, but inshore was dirty today. Or are you asking about Wellington? |
Posted By: Eric de Vries
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 10:41pm
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We know they are here....bit like what you said dirty water along the westcost that is.
------------- http://www.southernbluefins.co.nz/ |
Posted By: Katipo
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2010 at 8:23am
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Nice shot DD , no way that bugger was gonna tear off.
Geez this threads making me hungry, never really got into shashimi, sounds like Iam really missing out on something, only problem is we have a huge swell in the bay this weekend. 2.5 - 3mtrs... where the hell did that come from.
No diving this weekend..... but I did shoot a nice 8 point stag last evening so not all is lost.
Ahhhhhh..... back steaks. ------------- "CRY HAVOC" AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR.....JULIUS CAESAR |