Recognize Your Seafood Before Battering Quiz

Answer: Sturgeon

There are more than 25 species of sturgeon worldwide. The beluga (also known as the European sturgeon), native to the Caspian and Black Seas and famous for its caviar, is the world's largest carnivorous fish (defining 'fish' as bony rather than cartilaginous, and thus excluding sharks).
The slightly smaller kaluga, or river beluga, found in the Amur River basin in Asia, is the world's largest freshwater fish. The third largest sturgeon, commonly called the white sturgeon but also known by various other names (Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, California white sturgeon) is North America's largest freshwater fish.
One of the world's oldest fish, dating back 175 million years, anatomically they are actually more like a shark than a bony fish. They live primarily at the bottom of slow-moving rivers or estuaries, living on a diet of fish (live or dead), eels, crustaceans and mollusks.

Answer: Trout

The pictured fish is the eastern brook trout, also sometimes called a speckled trout. Technically a member of the char family, the eastern brook trout is not that closely related to species of freshwater, river trout.
Native to a wide area of eastern U.S.A., they are most common in the Appalachian Mountain and in the Great Lakes. Their diet is highly varied, ranging from insects such as mayflies, beetles, grasshoppers and ants to crustaceans, frogs, mollusks and even small mammals such as voles.

Answer: Lamprey

Although lampreys have a reputation as 'vampire fish', most species are not parasitic and do not even eat other fish. Sometimes called "nine-eyed eels" (from counting the seven gills, one eye and one nostril on each side), the German name for lampreys is Neunauge, meaning 'nine-eye'. When King Henry I of England died in 1135, the reported cause of death was "a surfeit of lampreys".

These days in Britain, lampreys are most often used as bait for catching pike, perch or chub. Elsewhere, though, notably Scandinavia, Portugal, Russia, Japan and New Zealand, Lampreys are commonly found on menus.

Answer: Snapper

Although they share a common name, the Australian snapper is not closely related to the red snapper common to America's eastern coast. They live mostly in rocky areas and reefs, and can be caught off any New Zealand coast and off the eastern and southern coasts of Australia. They are also common in the waters surrounding the Philippines and Indonesia and off the southern coast of China.

Answer: Plaice

The four species are American plaice, Alaskan plaice, scale-eye plaice and, pictured here, the European plaice. A right-eyed flounder, the European place lives predominantly at the sandy bottom of the ocean from the Barents Sea south to the Mediterranean.
Whilst in Britain battered plaice is generally served accompanied by chips (French fries), in Denmark and Germany it comes pan-fried and battered and then served hot or cold with remoulade sauce in an open sandwich.

Answer: Grouper

Stout-bodied fish with large mouths, groupers are members of the same fish family as the sea bass. They have few teeth along their jawline but have crushing tooth plates further back, since they usually swallow their prey whole rather than biting pieces off. They dine on a mixture of smaller fish, octopus, crustaceans and even young turtles and sharks.
The pictured species is the large Atlantic goliath grouper which grow to 10-feet in length and can weigh in at up to 800 pounds (although they average about half that weight).

Answer: Tuna

There are fifteen species of tuna ranging in size from the small bullet tuna which grows to a length of around 18 inches and weighs about four pounds, to the 15-foot long Atlantic bluefin tuna which can weigh in at as much as 1,500 pounds. Many of these species are seriously endangered and some, such as the Southern bluefin tuna, have been over-fished almost to the point of extinction. The pictured fish is the bigeye tuna, a deep-bodied fish with large head and eyes with particularly long pectoral fins.

They grow to a length of around eight feet and can weigh as much as 400 pounds. Capable of diving much deeper than most members of the tuna family, the bigeye feeds mostly on squid, octopus and cuttlefish found in deep waters. They also eat a selection of crustaceans.

Answer: Anchovy

There are more than 140 species of anchovy divided into 17 genera. Usually green that reflects as blue because of a silver horizontal stripe, they vary from 1-15 inches in length. Although they live on a diet of plankton and recently hatched fish, they have remarkably sharp teeth.
The pictured species in the California anchovy, also called the northern anchovy, which is native to the Pacific coast from British Columbia in the north to as far south as Mexico. They can usually be found within about twenty miles of the coastline.

Answer: John Dory

The John dory is native to the shores of Africa, southeast Asia, Japan and Australasia. They grow to a length of two feet and weigh in at around seven pounds.
The large spot on the side of the John dory confuses prey, which are then scooped up in a large tube-like mouth that sucks in fish and water together. The John dory feeds on small fish that school in large numbers as well as squid and cuttlefish. Its main predators are sharks and humans.

Answer: Monkfish

The huge head of a monkfish is broad and flat and its body seems to just trail in its wake like an elongated tail. The wide mouth, armed with banded of vicious-looking, inward-facing, pointed teeth, extends around almost the entire circumference of the head.

The fins of a monkfish act almost like feet, enabling it to walk along the seabed where it hides in the sand or seaweed awaiting passing prey. Just for good measure, the monkfish can also change color to blend into its surroundings. The monkfish also has a distensible stomach, enabling it to swallow prey not much smaller than itself.