The Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) is a small, deep-bodied silver jack of the warm western Atlantic, widely regarded as one of the finest food fishes of North America. Its firm, pale, fine-grained flesh is unusually rich and buttery for a fish of its size — moderately oily, mildly sweet and clean-tasting — which has long made it a prized, high-priced delicacy on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.