Species sheet · The Edible Ocean
Leerfish
A fast hunter caught being curious.
- Grilled steaks
- Raw, as carpaccio
- Baked with olives and tomato
- In French
- Liche amie
- Scientific name
- Lichia amia
- In the water
- Coastal open water of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, surface to 100 metres.
- Season & buying
- Late summer and autumn, when it hunts close to the beaches.
- Common length
- ~80 cm
- How to identify it
- Deep, strongly compressed body
Markedly wavy lateral line
Long soft dorsal and anal fins
On the plate
White, firm flesh, finer than amberjack.
Avoid: Keeping it too long. It loses its firmness quickly.
Its lateral line draws such a pronounced curve that it identifies the fish on its own, even seen at a distance or in poor light.
In Umay recipes
One Umay recipe calls for it.
