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Definition of Food fish
1. Noun. Any fish used for food by human beings.
Specialized synonyms: Bottom Fish, Groundfish, Barracouta, Snoek, Shad, Clupea Harangus, Herring, Sardine, Salmon, Trout, Whitefish, Sea Bass, Snapper, Tuna, Tunny, Sole
Definition of Food fish
1. Noun. (alternative form of foodfish) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Food Fish
Literary usage of Food fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1905)
"... which fish are food fish, minor food fish and minnows or bait fish, to protect
and provide for the maintenance and increase of fish in such lakes, ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... which is of course no mackerel at all, is an excellent food-fish, especially
fine when salted. There seems to be no good reason why it may not ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"... mauy species of flatfishes in its markets, about all of which pass by the
name "sole"; none of them have as yet acquired special renown as a food fish. ..."
4. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"It has been found as far north as Cape Cod on the Atlantic coast, but does not
occur in sufficient numbers to make it of any economic value as a food fish ..."