food fish

Noun
  1. Any fish used for food by human beings (synset 102515569)
    is a type of: fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • tuna, tunny - 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

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