<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Berger</b> <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thu, July 19, 2007 8:22 pm, R Aryeh Stein quoted <a href="http://kosherblog.net">kosherblog.net</a><br>
giving R' Heineman's opinion:<br>: Fish, too, may be considered similarly. If, for example, a whole,<br>: kosher fish has had its head and tail removed in a non-kosher fish<br>: market, we may trim away the cut edges with a kosher a knife and use
<br>: the fish. (Since scalers can only be used on fish with scales, i.e.<br>: kosher fish, there are no kashrut concerns about the scaler's use on<br>: non-kosher fish.)<br><br>Swordfish?<br><br>Not every fish with scales has qasqeses.
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<div>IIUC, part of what differentiates qasqeses from other scales is that they come off much more easily. Could that mean that a scaler is actually only used on kasqeses, and not other scales?</div><br>KT,</div>
<div>Michael</div>