groundfish

Speech parts

1. groundfish - Noun

2. groundfish - Verb

Meaning

fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bottom fish pisces bonito fish fishing goldfish seafood offish benthic Poisson bottom-dwelling finfish fishes bottomhole groundfishery
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Hypernyms

food fish

Hyponyms

cod

Examples

A dozen trawlers are tying up for the year early due to tripping the 2,700 chinook salmon bycatch cap in Central and Western Gulf groundfish fisheries. Source: Internet

A new fishery management plan will reduce halibut bycatch by 21 percent in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands trawl and longline groundfish fisheries to 3,515 metric tons (7.73 million pounds). Source: Internet

In Kodiak, groundfish fisheries contribute to a year-round processor workforce, rather than the seasonal employment used by many other processing hubs. Source: Internet

He was in the throes of groundfish season and had been working 16-hour days, barely sleeping during the hours he had before waking up in the middle of the night to set off from the Chatham Fish Pier once again. Source: Internet

Pollock fisheries in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska ended for the year on Nov. 1, while fishing continues for cod, flounders and other groundfish. Source: Internet

In the 1960s and 1970s, it is true, foreign factory trawlers from Russia and Japan pillaged coastal groundfish stocks. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

grounder grounders groundfire groundfisherman groundfloor groundgame