Is Trout and whitefish kosher?

Q: Is Trout and whitefish kosher?

Trout and whitefish is kosher according to Jewish dietary law. It has the fins and scales required by kashrut.

Yes — Trout and whitefish is kosher under Jewish dietary law.

Trout and whitefish has fins and scales, which are the two requirements for kosher fish under Jewish dietary law (Leviticus 11:9-12).

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Hebrew name: פורל
Also known as: Arctic Char, Arctic char, Atlantic Salmon, Atlantic salmon, Blueback Salmon, Brook Rout, Brown Trout, Char, Chars, Chinook, Chub, Chum, Chup, Cisco, Coho, Cutthroat Trout, Dog Salmon, Dolly Varden, Fall Salmon, Golden Trout, Grayling, Humpback Salmon, King Salmon, Lake Herring, Lake Trout, Lake trout, Pacific Salmon, Pacific salmons, Pink Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Red Salmon, Salmon, Sea Chub, Sea Trout, Silver Salmon, Sockeye, Spring Salmon, Steelhead, Tilefish, Trout, Trouts Brown trout, Whitefish, Whitefishes, blueback, chinook, chubs, chum, ciscos, dog, graylings, king, pink, sockeye, steelhead
Kosher status: Kosher

About Trout and whitefish

Family Salmonidae. Including: Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar); Pacific salmons (Oncorhtnchus species); Coho or silver salmon; sockeye, blueback or red salmon; chinook, king or spring salmon; pink or humpback salmon; chum, dog or fall salmon, Trouts (Salmo species) Brown trout, rainbow trout or steelhead, cutthroat trout, golden trout, Chars (Salvelinus species); Lake trout, brook rout, Arctic char (salvelinus alpinus), Dolly Varden, Whitefishes and ciscos (coregonus species and Prosopium species); Cisco or lake herring (Corengonus artedii); chubs (coregonus species); graylings (thymallus Species)

Source: kosherfish.co/kosher-fish-list (snapshot 2025-12-19); legacy csv