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greenling

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green·ling  (grnlng)
n.
Any of various marine food fishes of the family Hexagrammidae, which frequent rocky coastal areas of the northern Pacific.
greenling [ˈgriːnlɪŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any scorpaenoid food fish of the family Hexagrammidae of the North Pacific Ocean
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Noun1.greenlinggreenling - food fish of the northern Pacific    
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates
family Hexagrammidae, Hexagrammidae - greenlings
Hexagrammos decagrammus, kelp greenling - common food and sport fish of western coast of North America
convict fish, convictfish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling - greenling with whitish body marked with black bands


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or more and their cousins the greenling, six species of rockfish, five species of stocked and wild salmon, and Pacific cod, all chasing candlefish, herring, anchovies, smelt and each other around the rock reefs, gravel bottoms and kelp forests along the strait.
The strait story: there are some places you can only get to know and ... by Lydecker, Ryck / BOAT/U.S. Magazine
As in the past, the state will manage ocean whitefish, California sheepshead and rock greenling to be consistent with the federal regulations.
NEW GROUNDFISH REGULATIONS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
05 mg Hg/kg] + [(cod + pollock + sablefish + rockfish + greenling + herring + spiny + dog- fish + perch) x (0.
The importance of weight-normalized exposure data when issuing fish ... by Marien, Koenraad / Environmental Health Perspectives
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