saltwater fish

Noun
  1. Flesh of fish from the sea used as food (synset 107791881)
    is a type of: seafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
    subtypes:
    • bream, sea bream - flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae
    • bass, sea bass - the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
    • grouper - flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass
    • croaker - the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S.
    • whiting - flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
    • whiting - flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
    • cusk - the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters
    • dolphinfish, mahimahi - the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii)
    • monkfish - flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America
    • tuna, tuna fish, tunny - important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
    • mackerel - flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish
    • pompano - flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish
    • blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
    • herring - valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
    • kingfish - the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
    • lingcod - the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States
    • bluefish - fatty bluish flesh of bluefish
    • swordfish - flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
    • butterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
    • cod, codfish - lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached
    • pollack, pollock - lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
    • porgy, scup - lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
    • scup - flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States
    • flatfish - sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
    • rockfish - the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
    • sailfish - a saltwater fish with lean flesh
    • weakfish - lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States
    • pilchard, sardine - small fatty fish usually canned
    • snapper - flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
    • red rockfish - red flesh of large food fish of Pacific coast

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