Monkfish

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This article is about cooked monkfish. For other uses, see Monkfish (disambiguation).

Monkfish
Detailed
Release	2 May 2006 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Edible	Yes
Edible	Yes
Value	Unknown
Value	Unknown
High Alchemy	138 coins
High Alchemy	138 coins
Low Alchemy	92 coins
Low Alchemy	92 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	388 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
Weight	0.4 kg
Examine	A tasty fish.
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Monkfish are members-only food that heal 1600 life points when consumed by players with level 62 Constitution or higher. During the Swan Song quest, players must fish fresh monkfish, a non-tradeable quest item that heals 200 Life Points when successfully cooked and then consumed. The value of one monkfish in Mobilising Armies is 47 Investment Credits.

Members with at least level 62 Fishing can catch raw monkfish, gaining 120 Fishing experience points per fish. Monkfish can only be caught with a small fishing net. Using a harpoon will only get you tunas and swordfish. In the Piscatoris Fishing Colony, the small net fishing spots will only contain monkfish, while that is also the only place in RuneScape where you can catch monkfish. This requires players to have completed Swan Song.

Members can cook the raw monkfish if they have at least level 62 Cooking, and gain 150 experience if they are successful in doing so. Note that it is not necessary to do the quest for purchasing or trading, or for cooking monkfish. At level 65 Divination members can weave 45 vibrant energy with one monkfish to create a portent of restoration VII or an attuned portent of restoration VII at 67 Divination, which heal 930 or 1600 life points respectively. Template:Wpalso

Dropping monsters

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

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Cooking table

Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Starlight	146	3	Uncommon

Tools/utensils	Small fishing net
Ingredients	Raw monkfish
level	62
Burn level	90 on a range, 92 on a fire (90 with cooking gauntlets).
experience	150 (Range) 165 (Bonfire)
Range-only	No
Instructions	Use raw monkfish with a fire or a range.
Servings	1

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Burn rates

Failure to cook the raw monkfish will produce burnt monkfish instead.

Burning monkfish on a range becomes impossible after level 89 Cooking. You could use the range on Neitiznot, which is closer to a bank and does not require any climbing. Catherby is also an ideal place, since the range is located right next to the bank.

Cooking gauntlets aid both in the cooking success rate of monkfish and the level at which you stop burning them. If using Cooking gauntlets and cooking on a range, it is exceedingly rare to burn a monkfish after level 86 cooking, and impossible to burn them on a range while wearing Cooking gauntlets beginning at level 89.

Trivia

• Lophius piscatorius is the scientific name for monkfish. This is related to the Latin stem pisces, meaning fish, and the Piscatoris Fishing Colony (which is where monkfish are caught) probably got its name for these reasons. The other reason, as shown on the Piscatoris Fishing Colony page is that in Latin it means fisherman, so it could mean Fishing Colony of Fishermen.