food fish

/fud fɪʃ/

Other forms: food fishes

Definitions of food fish

1. noun

   any fish used for food by human beings
   types:

   bottom fish, groundfish

   fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)

   barracouta, snoek

   a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa

   shad

   herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn

   Clupea harangus, herring

   commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

   sardine

   any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

   salmon

   any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

   trout

   any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons

   whitefish

   silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

   sea bass

   any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

   snapper

   any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters

   tuna, tunny

   any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters

   sole

   right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European

   Alosa sapidissima, common American shad

   shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast

   Alosa chrysocloris, river shad

   shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima

   Alosa alosa, allice, allice shad, allis, allis shad

   European shad

   Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus harengus

   important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic

   Clupea harengus pallasii, Pacific herring

   important food fish of the northern Pacific

   sild

   any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway

   Clupea sprattus, brisling, sprat

   small herring processed like a sardine

   blackfish

   female salmon that has recently spawned

   redfish

   male salmon that has recently spawned

   Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar

   found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning

   Oncorhynchus nerka, blueback salmon, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon

   small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning

   Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon

   large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

   Oncorhynchus keta, chum, chum salmon

   a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish

   Oncorhynchus kisutch, blue jack, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon

   small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes

   Salmo trutta, brown trout, salmon trout

   speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America

   Salmo gairdneri, rainbow trout

   found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska

   Salvelinus namaycush, lake trout, salmon trout

   large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States

   Salvelinus fontinalis, brook trout, speckled trout

   North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe

   Coregonus clupeaformis, lake whitefish

   found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska

   Coregonus artedi, cisco, lake herring

   important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America

   Menominee whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, round whitefish

   a whitefish with a bronze back; of northern North America and Siberia

   Prosopium williamsonii, Rocky Mountain whitefish

   whitefish of the western United States and Canada

   Synagrops bellus, blackmouth bass

   small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity

   Centropristis philadelphica, rock bass, rock sea bass

   a kind of sea bass

   Centropistes striata, black bass, black sea bass

   bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States

   Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass, striper

   marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

   Polyprion americanus, stone bass, wreckfish

   brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

   Serranus subligarius, belted sandfish

   found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic

   grouper

   usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas

   Lutjanus blackfordi, red snapper

   an esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in the Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico

   Lutjanus griseus, gray snapper, grey snapper, mangrove snapper

   found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida

   Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper, muttonfish

   similar to and often marketed as `red snapper';

   Lutjanus apodus, schoolmaster

   food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

   Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail, yellowtail snapper

   superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail

   Thunnus alalunga, albacore, long-fin tunny

   large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters

   Thunnus thynnus, bluefin, bluefin tuna, horse mackerel

   largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics

   Thunnus albacares, yellowfin, yellowfin tuna

   may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics

   European sole, Solea solea

   highly valued as food

   Solea lascaris, lemon sole

   small European sole

   English sole, Parophrys vitulus, lemon sole

   popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America

   Psettichthys melanostichus, sand sole

   a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America

   Trinectes maculatus, hogchoker

   useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama

   type of:

   fish

   any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills