10 Best Tasting Freshwater Fish to Eat

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If you are searching to see what are the best tasting freshwater fish to eat, you are in the right place.

You already know that people started fishing a long time ago, and it is supposed they started doing it in Africa. When people started leaving Africa many years ago, they started sharing their fishing techniques in Iran, India, China, Japan, and America. Back in the day, knowing how to fish was super important for people to survive. They started inventing all kinds of stuff in order to catch more fish in less time. If you want to learn how to catch some fish, you can try with 10 Easiest Fish to Catch.

Today, for some people, fishing is just a hobby. There are different fish species. We have fish species from a few centimeters long to even a few meters. Some of them taste delicious while others are very good looking and interesting in an aquarium.

10 Best Tasting Freshwater Fish to Eat

The main differences between freshwater fish and saltwater fish are in osmoregulation and behavior. Osmoregulation means how a specific fish is controlling the water flow in its body, but it also includes the composition of kidney function, gills, and body tissues. Saltwater fish contains less salt than the water they live in and because they are constantly losing water through their skin and gills, in order to prevent a dehydration they drink large quantities of saltwater but they produce a little urine. Freshwater fish, on the other side, contain more salt than the water they live in and because the water flows through their body constantly, they don’t have the need to drink additional water. Also, compared to saltwater fish, freshwater fish are producing a large amount of urine.

When it comes to delicious fish, there are many specialties you can prepare from it. You can bake it, fry it, prepare it on BBQ or as sushi. While we are talking about sushi, if you are living in New York City you can see what are the 10 best sushi making classes in NYC.

Eating fish is very healthy because it has a high amount of protein, it can prevent heart disease, can reduce the risk of Alzheimer, will improve your hair and skin, ease your depression and boost the brain development.

In order to create our list of best tasting freshwater fish to eat, we used Fall For Fishing, Giga Fishing and Thought Co as our sources to see what freshwater fishes taste the best. First, we collected the information from our sources and then completed our list by taking the fishes which were mentioned the most times. We sorted our list by the number of mentions starting from the least to the most mentioned fish.


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