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salpa

Sarpa Salpa or Salema porgy

A species of bream, distinguished by its prominent gold stripes, that occasionally causes hallucinations when eaten (apparently you have to eat either the skin or some say the head, after the fish itself has eaten a certain kind of plankton).

Fish & Seafood

Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls

Image by Craig Pooley