KOSHER is the Hebrew word for 'proper' or 'fit' and can be applied to all food and food ingredients which comply to Judaism's dietary laws. This also applies to the cleaning and maintenance of equipment used to prepare it.
These laws are just as strict, too, about what is 'proper' from the sea as from land. Just as pork is strictly forbidden so, too, is shrimp.
'The Bible says that fish has to have fins and scales. So common tuna types like skipjack, albacore, yellowfin, bluefin and tongol are all kosher but species like shark are not, ' says Rabbi Danny Moore.
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