what pet fish are also fish that can be eaten for human consumption?

[sushiray]

So, I am talking about pet fish. I heard of oscars in Fla being raised for human consumption. then someone posted a pacu caught in deep freeze Fla, someone said they also caught a pacu & too big to keep in his tank he ate it.

I am sure like stripe bass, porgies, but they are not normally kept as pet fish.

any others? grouper - which type?

like to keep a running list.of edibles:

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copy & past & keep adding as we post

 

[Noddy]

A friend of mine in the Philipines started out in the fishkeeping hobby for the benefits of home grown fish as food.
He had his own backjard foodproduction!
What i heard is that he had Tilapia and Pangasius, for they grow fast and taste good.
He switched to Oscars later and fell in love with them .
So nowadays he keeps 2 large Pangasius and several adult Oscars, but doesn't see them as food anymore.

 

[Pomatomus]

Lots of large cichlids are eaten. Some examples are mayan cichlids and tilapias. People also keep largemouth bass and sunfish, both of which are delicious. I have seen people on MFK that keep snappers and groupers. I am currently sitting beside a tank full of snappers, grunts, groupers, various porgies, etc...

 

[Drew_H2o]

Sunfish, Bluegill, Pike, Bass... what else?

 

[oscarcrazy]

Pretty much all of them

 

[exasperatus2002]

Tilapia & channel catfish are sold in the pet trade but are also food fish (I love a good fried catfish with cornbread & wild rice).

 

[peewee]

giant gourami, most large cats, pacus, arapaima, silver arowana. those are just some of the thousands i think that are edible.

 

[RyanP]

Pretty much all of them

^^ just about anything u can stomach, give or take a few poison ones

 

[Plec123]

I thought about keeping a growing stock of porgies then cooking them for a party... Same goes for blue crabs.

 

[peewee]

cook some figure 8 and fahakas! LMFAO!