Has anyone ever cooked parrot fish? Are they edible? I toss em back, but I see others tossing them in the bucket along with those nasty looking lizard fish.

I haven't, but a friend of mine has and he said it was excellent. very white meat.

Everything is ''edible'' I know that a lot of islanders eat them and call them Bahamian snapper. I think that they are to neat looking of a fish and play to vital a role in the ecosystem to kill one though. They may also be highly capable of carrying cigutera ( sp)

I've heard they are good, similar to hogfish. BUT, they also are known for being a high risk of ciguatera. I always let them go, wouldn't risk it.

just take a risk you only live life once

just like the cuda... if attempting to eat one. make sure its small.

Delicious. But only eat the ones that are smaller than the size of a dinner plate (minus the head) due to ciguatera poisoning.

Eat it. If you get sick let us know.

My friend ate one and said it was White and tasty

Like FishnFool says, they are critical to the health of the reef, being one of the maintenance fish. Just throw it back, not everything that comes out of the water needs to be eaten.

thought it might look weird said by me I agree 100%, "maintenance" fish like parrots and nurse sharks i.e. should not be killed imo

I need to frame this.

There's a first time for everything.

Ricky made a funny today and now he won't eat Nurse Shark and Parrotfish. What next?

Lizardfish are damn tasty.....dont know about parrots...

He floats a shark bait out?

nope, my next goal is to catch a real shark without floating a bait out at night time while I'm sleeping...

last time I went to Bill Baggs a couple of old cuban dudes told me that back in the day they used to make croquettes out of them because their meat is very soft

And they would probably tell you the same about Tarpon.

Funny you mentioned that...I asked if they did the same thing to tarpon and they said they never did such a thing but knew people who did

And Bonefish also.

Yeah right. They probably ate them everyday.

Yum, tarpon croquettes. Add some grunt minutas and you have the Rickenbacker Extra Value Meal.

Do not forget the Jupina.

i've eaten bonefish before but never again...next time I go to the bahamas, I'll make sure that I eat something else.

How did it taste? Do not say chicken.

Did the bonefish taste bad? I would try it in the Bahamas, there are tons of bonefish there, many many more then there are in the Keys. Most of them are much smaller then the ones we have though. Bonefish are one of the best trolling baits for marlin.

you dont do it right. you have a to cut off the tail. then roll the meat out with a dough roller.

it wasn't really the taste that was bad...it's the number of bones I had to get through to eat it