Is monkfish an endangered species?

Question

Should we be buying it or ordering it when it is on a menu?

Answer 1

Depending which state's department of fisheries you check with on the Eastern Seaboard, you'll get everything from the monkfish stock being stable, to concerned, to depleted.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is looking into giving the monkfish status as endangered though (see second link below).

Just this consideration means it might be a good idea to take  monkfish off of your dinning options.  One of the odd things that may have brought the monkfish to this point is a name they acquired in the 1920s -- the "poor man's lobster".  Monkfish, when prepared right, has a taste close to that of Maine lobster; thus the demand.

Answer 2

they are only endangered because trawlers unintentionally catch them looking for other kinds of fish.

Answer 3

What, some one had a bad day of fishing so now its on the endanger specie list

Answer 4

you might as well order it seeing as its already dead

Answer 5

Monkfish: Are listed as. Over fished ,depleted,  endangered and threatened, because they are targeted in multis-species fisheries as well as caught incidentally.peace be bless xox