sablefish

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From sable +‎ fish.

sablefish (plural sablefishes or sablefish)

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

   Synonyms: skil, beshow, coalfish, black cod, butterfish

   • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

• black cod

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