pomfret

{{Short description|Family of ray-finned fishes}}

{{About|the family of pomfret fish|other fish also called pomfret|Pampus (fish)|and|Trachinotus blochii|and|Parastromateus niger|other uses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Pomfret

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Oligocene|recent|earliest=Ypresian}}

| image = Brama brama.jpg

| image_caption = Atlantic pomfret, Brama brama

| taxon = Bramidae

| authority = Bonaparte, 1831{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp | year = 2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 001–230 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free | access-date = 2020-11-08 | archive-date = 2021-03-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210310195213/https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | url-status = live }}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision_ref = {{FishBase family | family = Bramidae| month = February | year = 2013}}

| subdivision = See text

}}

Pomfrets are scombriform fish belonging to the family Bramidae. The family currently includes 20 species across seven genera. Several species are important food sources for humans, especially Brama brama in South Asia. The earlier form of the pomfret's name was "{{sic|hide=y|pam|flet}}", a word which probably ultimately comes from Portuguese pampo, referring to various fish such as the blue butterfish (Stromateus fiatola). The fish meat is white in color.