Fish Categories: What if I don't have the right fish for my recipe?

Most recipes call for a specific type of fish. If you find a recipe that you like but you don’t have the kind of fish the recipe calls for, use this handy guide for substituting a similar fish.

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Delicate texture, mild or medium flavor 

flounder, haddock, pollock, lake perch, petrale sole, sole, whitefish

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Moderate texture, mild or medium flavor 

black seabass, bronzino, Mediterranean seabass, cod, rockfish, sablefish, striped bass, redfish, black drum, snapper, walleye, trout

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Firm texture, mild or medium 

catfish, cobia, corvina, golden tilefish, grouper, halibut, hogfish, monkfish, pompano, mahi mahi, meagre, tripletail

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Firmest texture, full flavor 

mackerel, marlin, sturgeon, swordfish, tuna 

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Salmon- or trout-like

Arctic char, lake trout, rainbow trout, steelhead trout, all types of salmon

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