Definition of saltwater fish Saltwater fish
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| saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food | ||
| seafood edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | ||
| sea bream, bream any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae | ||
| sea bass, 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 | ||
| grouper usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas | ||
| croaker any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | ||
| whiting a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus | ||
| whiting a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus | ||
| cusk large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | ||
| dolphinfish, mahimahi large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | ||
| monkfish flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | ||
| tuna fish, tunny, tuna New Zealand eel | ||
| mackerel any of various fishes of the family Scombridae | ||
| pompano any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico | ||
| sea squab, blowfish, puffer, pufferfish delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | ||
| herring commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | ||
| kingfish large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | ||
| lingcod food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | ||
| bluefish bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | ||
| swordfish large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night | ||
| butterfish small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | ||
| codfish, cod major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | ||
| pollack, pollock important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod | ||
| porgy, scup important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide | ||
| scup found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish | ||
| flatfish any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side | ||
| rockfish marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America | ||
| sailfish large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | ||
| weakfish food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | ||
| pilchard, sardine small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring | ||
| snapper any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters | ||
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