A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
Note: Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds, as in food fish or food-fish, food supply.
Defn: A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish.
Passamaquoddy Bay is also a spring netting ground for herring (food fish), and there are also many weirs in operation here each year whose catch goes to the factories of Eastport and Lubec for canning as sardines.
The very best herring fishing for large herring (food fish) occurs on this bank in June and July.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "food fish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
