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Alan Davidson

Opah, Moonfish (but cf. page 97)

Lampris guttatus (Brünnich)

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top 1000North Atlantic Seafood
North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

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Family Lamprididae

  • Portuguese: Peixe cravo
  • Spanish: Luna real
  • French: Poisson lune, Poisson royal
  • Dutch: Koningsvis
  • German: Gotteslachs
  • Swedish: Glansfisk
  • Norwegian: Laksestørje
  • Danish: Glansfisk
  • Icelandic: Guðlax
  • Other: Sunfish, Jerusalem haddock

REMARKS Maximum length 180 cm (corresponding to a weight of 50 kilos). This beautiful fish is not uncommon in the central and southern parts of the Atlantic and may swim as far north as Iceland and Norway; but it is a rarity in the North Atlantic. There can surely have been only one occasion (Swindon, AD 1971) when a famous poet and a famous cook (Geoffrey and Jane Grigson) have entered a British fish shop and been confronted by a whole opah. For the resulting, lyrical description of the fish.

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