Croaker - مشکا مچھلی
Sea Fish
Croaker (Frying Fish)
One of the low cost fish that has no fishy odor and a lot of bones.Croake is very versatile to use.The size you get: 200 gm – 1 kg per fish with variable prices and 900 to 1300 fish available Now.
Introduction
Introduction
Croaker – Mushka is one of the most common fish of the Arabian Sea. Croaker is available throughout the year at stable prices.
Croaker – Mushka is known to be a low-end fish equally loved by all segments of customers. Croaker is one of those fish that is low cost and has no fishy odor and bones. Probably the most common frying fish, Croaker is very versatile to use.
Flavor Profile
This is a very good eating fish. The flesh is off-white with a good medium flavor. One must use simple species that won’t mask the flavor and just lightly dust with rice flour for frying.
Nomenclature
English Name: Croaker, Drum, Tiger-tooth Croaker
Local Name: Mushka, Pandasi
Scientific Name: Otolithes Cuvieri
Habitat
Croaker is a Sea fish that mainly lives at inshore and coastal waters.
Catching Method
Croaker is caught using Gillnets, Hook lines, and Bottom Trawls.
Physical Attributes
Croaker has Scales on the body. The body is fairly slender, depth slightly less than head length, mouth large and strongly oblique with lower jaw projecting; no upper pores on the snout, 1–2 pairs of moderate canine teeth in the upper jaw or both jaws, 13–15 gill rakers on lower limb of the first-gill arch, swim bladder carrot-shaped, with branching appendages along its entire lateral sides, caudal fin rhomboid.
Color
Scale centers are brown on the upper two-thirds of the body, forming narrow oblique bands of spinous dorsal fin edged in grey-black, anal, and paired fins are yellowish.
Size
On average, Croaker size is 200 gram to 1 kg per fish. However, other sizes are also occasionally available.
Cutting Preferences
Croaker is preferred for Whole and Gutted and Headless and Gutted, Slices, Boneless Fillets, Boneless Biscuits, and Boneless Fingers.
Approx. Cutting Yields
- Whole: 100%
- Gutted: 80%
- Headless and Gutted: 70%
- Slices: 68%
- Boneless: 42%
Cooking Preferences
Croaker is preferred to Grill, BBQ & Fry.
Health Benefits
- Heart friendly
- Lowers Blood Pressure
- Improves Immune System
- Strengthens the bones
- Improves Skin and Hair health
Cooking Preference
Medium prawns are ideal for curry, frying, grilling, BBQ, and various international dishes.
Different Names
English Name: Indian Prawn, White Prawn, Shrimp, Prawns
Local Name: Karli, Patta, Jaira
Health Benefits
- Promotes heart health
- Helps reduce blood pressure
- Enhances the immune system
- Strengthens bones
- Supports healthy skin and hair
Peeling Preferences
Medium prawns are preferred in several forms: whole, head-off and deveined, tail on and deveined, as well as peeled and deveined.
Approx Yield Percentage
- Whole: 100%
- Head-off: 70%
- Tail On: 55%
- Full Peeled: 50%
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