Know your seafood variety
Pomfret
Species: Pampus spp, Niger spp
Black Pomfret
Chinese Pomfret
Silver Pomfret
Grow upto 60cms. Live in shallow mud banks to 20m depth.
Body laterally compressed, often found in large schools seasonally on the surface.
feed on zooplanktons and medusae.
Silver Pomfret - Pampus argenteus
Deeply forked tail, fins are deeply falcate.
Body very deep and compressed, caudal peducnle short and compressed, with no keels or scutes
Single dorsal and anal fins
Pelvic fins absent, mouth small, maxilla immobile covered with skin and united to cheek
Scales small, cycloid very easily shed; head naked
Colour conspicuously silvery with bluish cast on back.
Gujarathi - Paplet / Vichuda
Marathi - Paplet / Saranga
Konkani - Poplet
Kannada - Bilimanji / Manji
Malayalam - avoli
Tamil - vaval
Telugu - Tella chanduva/ sadi sanduva
Oriya - Chandua / Ghee chandi
Bengali - Baul chandi
Andaman Is - Pomplet
It is one of teh most sought after fish in India due to delicate white flesh with subtle non fishy flavour. Thesh break up easily on the plate Fish is often deep fried whole.
