Sablefish

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters.

    "Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish."

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"Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish."

Etymology

From sable + fish.

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