Can you eat Moki fish?

Can you eat Moki fish?

Latridopsis Ciliaris Blue Moki is a delicious table fish, great value for money and totally underrated. Don’t be afraid of the blue tinge you get on the fillets sometimes – they become fully white when cooked. Roast in a preheated oven until cooked.

Is Moki a firm fish?

Blue moki has firm flesh which holds its shape well when cooked.

Can you eat blue Moki?

Blue moki are a good eating fish prized by southern divers. They have a deep, compressed body, large scales and big, fleshy lips. They are dark blue/grey on top with several dark bands and fade to white on their belly.

What do red Moki eat?

Red moki eat crabs and chitons and other things that live under rocks. They don’t scoot around in berley trails fighting with blue maomao and small trevally over scraps of pilchard.

What is a silver Moki fish?

MOKI. (Latridopsis ciliaris). This is a blue-grey and silver fish of shallow coastal waters, found usually where there is a rocky bottom. Adults reach 2 ft in length. Often moki occur in association with tarakihi and, like them, they are bottom feeders, eating a wide variety of animal life.

Are silver drummers good eating?

The silver drummer is regarded as a fish which puts up a good fight when caught by the angler and is therefore popular. However, most people consider its flesh to be inedible.

What is Moki fish?

A firm, white flesh fish, that holds its shape well when cooked. Blue Moki is a type of Trumpeter found throughout mainland waters of New Zealand. Most commonly caught by trawl or set nets off the east coast from the Bay of Plenty to Kaikoura.

Can you eat blue moki fish?

Blue Moki migrate each winter up the east coast to spawning grounds off Gisborne. The flesh of blue Moki is a light greyish colour that lightens when cooked. To my taste, it has a stronger flavour than most other fish and is excellent eating.

What is the difference between a blue moki and a trumpeter?

The profile of blue Moki is much the same as a trumpeter. They can easily be distinguished from trumpeter by the absence of longitudinal stripes. The blue Moki is the most common Moki, although there are several related though much rarer species of Moki such as the copper and red Moki.

Why does my mouth taste fishy all the time?

In addition, some forms of gum disease will produce a fishy taste/smell. If your mouth tastes or smells fishy all the time, it may contain these organisms, or you may have gum disease.

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