Skate
Rajidae
Not Kosher
No true scales
Scales
No
Description
Skate is fished for food in parts of the world. One well-known dish is hongeo-hoe, a Korean preparation of fermented skate. Skate is also sometimes cut and sold as mock scallop.
Skates live from the intertidal zone down past 3,000 meters, most commonly along the outer continental shelves and upper slopes in cool temperate to polar water. They're the one cartilaginous group with more species at higher latitudes, and they're absent from fresh and brackish water apart from a few exceptions.
Also known as
- Common skate
- Little skate
- Winter skate
Skate in foreign languages
| Scientific | Rajidae |
| Hebrew | תריסניתיים |
| Arabic | ورنكية |
| Spanish | Rajido |
| Portuguese | Rajídeos |
| French | Rajidé |
| German | Echte Rochen |
| Russian | Ромбовые скаты |
| Chinese | 鳐科 |
| Japanese | ガンギエイ科 |
| Korean | 홍어과 |
| Thai | ปลาสเกต |
| Indonesian | Kelencir |
Warnings & Kosher Issues
- A cartilaginous fish, the same class as sharks, with rough placoid scales rather than the true scales kosher law requires, so it is not kosher.
- Skates and rays are sometimes cut into discs and sold as mock scallops. The ruling is the same.