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Rebdoniel

“R’ Shachter says it’s ok to eat swordfish. If something is mutar, it’s mutar. If it’s assur, it’s assur.”

R Shachter eats swordfish because R Soloveitchik paskined that he thinks they are kosher. However Moshe Tendler thoroughly studied the subject with scientists and showed his findings to Reb Moshe Feinstein who paskened they are not Kosher. As I am not a talmid of Rav Schachter and since most poskim agree that Swordfish are not Kosher I would never eat it. So for most people swordfish are assur. For the people who are talmidim of R Soloveitchik or Shachter and do everything according to their psak, or for the clowns who pick and choose arbitrarily what they do and for Conservative Jews swordfish is kosher. For most Orthodox Jews it isn’t.