Indian Names for Fishes

I started eating and cooking fish only after my marriage. My maternal family is vegetarian and we never used to cook non-veg at home. However, they were not against we eating non-veg. I still do not have a great taste, but I can say I am a non-vegetarian by choice and I love to try different recipes.

My hubby is from Mangalore and he has been a sea food lover since his childhood. He knows all konkani names for fish. But here since we get fishes from all origins and has there own names, we are always skeptical about buying those.

Whenever we want to get fish, we buy it from Japanese market. They have both fresh and frozen ones. I like that place because they cut and clean the fish if we want. I have tried couple of frozen ones, but so far have liked only frozen shrimps.

I have jotted down Indian Names for few of the fishes available here. I will update the list as and when I get to know new ones.

Shrimps - Sungat
King Fish - Vison
Sardine - Tarle
Indian Mackerel - Bangde
Pompreft - Maanji
Crab - Kurlo

Apart from this I have heard from couple of friends about Belt Fish, Cat Fish and Salmon. Honestly havent really tried these.

Note: The Indian names I have mentioned are in Konkani and I am not aware which other language uses the same translation.