Mahi-mahi

Mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus, is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in offshore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide, also called common dolphinfish, dolphin or dorado, names not to be confused with the marine mammal dolphin or the freshwater fish Salminus brasiliensis. Its Hawaiian name means very strong, formed through linguistic reduplication, and in Italian it is called corifena or lampuga. It is most common around the Gulf of Mexico, Costa Rica, Hawaii and the Indian Ocean, and also found in the Caribbean, along American coasts and throughout Southeast Asia. It is a popular food fish in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, Japan and Hawaii, with grey-white raw flesh that cooks to an attractive white with a clean, non-fishy flavor, and is among the fastest-growing fish species, typically living up to four years and rarely beyond five; it is one of two species in the family Coryphaenidae.