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KevinS > wrote:

>On Apr 24, 2:38�pm, Dan Logcher > wrote:


>> Every person is different.. some people's digestive system may not be
>> able to handle any at all.


>A favorite restaurant of mine sometimes offers Walu - which
>I understand is escolar. I love it and it doesn't bother me.


Are you in Hawaii?

Fishbase lists _ruvettus pretiosus_ as one of the species commonly
called walu, but only in Hawaii.

(It also lists a bunch of additional species that might be
called escolar, whereas this seems to be the predominant species
that is called oilfish.)


Steve