Rock Salmon

[smoneybags]

Why isn't Rock Salmon available where I live in Yorkshire? It is readily available all year round in Fish and Chip shops down south.

[retrocop]

Seems like it is a regional choice. Down sarf we do not see
much Haddock in the chippie whereas it seems in Scotland all chippies have it amongst other things.
Perhaps tope(rock salmon) which is a member of the sharl family prefers warmer waters down here but even Rock seems to be dying out in the southern chippies as well. Shame.It is my favourite along with skate wings which are also a rarity now.

[dannyk13]

Rock salmon, aka huss, , dogfish or tope is listed as a threatened species so that is why it is not commonly available.

[retrocop]

Thanks danny for that bad news :-(

[dannyk13]

Good morning Retro,I used to get it regularly but it has not been available here for a couple of years.

[retrocop]

I used to buy frozen kilo bags of it on Newhaven quay about 20years ago.
It would seem the lack of fish diet is slowing me down in the Xwords these days.The little/hardest is a stinker today . :-)

[dannyk13]

Do you want help with it?

[lankeela]

As a kid I used to stay with me granma in Yorkshire and we only ever asked for 'fish and chips' never a specific fish Don't know what it was we got!

[dannyk13]

Most likely haddock which is the most common fish used in our fish and chips

[retrocop]

No thanks danny.Finally on last one 5A.

[bhg481]

I'm with lankeela - brought up in Lancashire we just used to get fish and chips. When I went to Brighton in 1964 and asked for fish and chips they asked what fish I wanted. I was floored as I hadn't a clue what we'd been eating in Lancs.

[MargoTester]

Is that the fish with one big bone in the middle? We always called it gurnet and never see it now

[retrocop]

Morning Margo
I don't think Rock is known as Gurnet.That is a smaller ugly fish with scales whereas the tope,rock huss has a leathery type skin that you peel off with pliers.I use Gurnet for a bouillabase.It is bony though.

[mccfluff]

anyone else fancy chish and fips now?

[mallyh]

this is my mums favourite fish and we can get it here in hampshire and hertfordshire where mum lives .(but we can't get smoked haddock in our lidls but can up yorkshire where we visit family )

[pusskin]

Is Rock Eel, rock salmon? If so, its the only fish i ever eat.

Scrumptious, and always there for me to buy at local chippie.

[mallyh]

rock eel aka huss

[MargoTester]

Good morning Retro - I wonder R what I am thinking about then. It was an off white fish with one bone in the middle, rock salmon I think but we called it something different.

[dannyk13]

Dogfish? Huss? Tope?

[pusskin]

Rock eel is it then! Cant call it Rock salmon after all these yrs.

[MargoTester]

Thanks Danny but I don't remember any of those names. Ah well lost in the mists of time.