food fish

food fish

n.

A fish that may be used as food for humans.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

food fish - any fish used for food by human beings fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish" 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 tunny, tuna - 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