white fish

Mild-flavored seafood

White fish refers broadly to any fish with pale, mild-tasting flesh—cod, haddock, tilapia, halibut, and similar species.

The term distinguishes these from oily fish like salmon or mackerel.

White fish is often recommended as a lean protein source: I'm trying to eat more white fish.

Also spelled as one word: whitefish.

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trawling · flounder · flaky texture · whiting · halibut · sea bass · pan fried · filleting · netting · canning · walleye · Great Lakes · smoking · catfish · freshwater · tilapia · lutefisk · monkfish

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flesh color/type

white fishsalmon

Pink-fleshed migratory fish

anchovies · oily fish · fatty fish · tuna · mackerel

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fish, white

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