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A St. Peter's fish from the kibbutz
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everal months ago, a
group of Japanese
businessmen visited
Lake Kinneret, the Sea of
Galilee, there to taste St.
Peter's fish and determine
whether they could profitably
be introduced to prestigious
restaurants in Tokyo and
Osaka. They were polite, but
it was clear that they were
disappointed. The fish, they
said, "were pleasant but not
attractive or tasty enough for
the sophisticated Japanese
palate."
Not easily daunted, the
group decided to follow up a
somewhat outrageous rumor
they had heard — that some-
one in Israel was raising red
St. Peter's fish. When they ar-
rived at Kibbutz Nir David,
three kilometers west of Beit
She'an, the Japanese were
astonished to learn that the
rumor was correct, for here, as
unlikely as it might seem,
were exquisitely colored
orange-red fish.

Eighty-one-year-old Shmuel
Swig, manager of the kibbutz
fish ponds, netted several fish
to show the visitors. "Before
I knew what was happening,"
says Sarig, "they had whip-
ped out long, sharp knives.
With a quick flash of blades
the fish were killed and scal-
ed and within seconds our
guests were devouring paper
thin slices of raw fish." The
Japanese made no attempt to
conceal their delight and pro-
nounced the fish to be
nothing short of magnificent.
That the Japanese have a
passion for raw fish (sashimi)
is not surprising. That St.
Peter's fish can be red,
however, might. For at least
two thousand years, the St.
Peter's fish or "amnoon," in-
digenous to the waters of the
Kinneret, and by far the most
popular fresh-water fish in
Israel, have been grey-black
in color. Said Eran Lahav, the.
head biologist at the Nir