Tasmiyyah On Fish
You’re taking like of a plant nevertheless, but that act of taking life can never be synonymous with that taking of a life for which term slaughter is used. Fishing activity is much closer to that of plants in terms of act of taking of a life. Besides, there’s no act of slaughter taking place. Nevertheless, a Muslim should Take Allah’s name even when fishing, since there’s no act of slaughter, therefore no exact time can be fixed to take Allah’s name. One should say it at the time appropriate to the situation, for example, a fisherman can say Allah’s name while throwing the net in the water for fishing. Same is the reason why ‘Murdaar’ of Fish is Halal, because even in daily language use, we never use word ‘Murdaar’ for the Fish.