SC - Fish at Feasts
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri Sep 18 04:17:31 PDT 1998
> A.J. McClane's "Complete Encyclopedia of Fish Cookery" says that there is
> only
> one actual European catfish, Siluris glanis, commonly known as a wels.
> What
> language this is supposed to be in is not clear, but McClane clearly
> states
> that while there is a fish known as a katfische in German, it is a marine
> wolffish related to wrasses.
>
> Adamantius
>
I think you will find wels is German. The name may have some relation to
the town of Wels in Austria, but that is idle speculation.
Bear
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