Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bony fish, such as a salmon, or a cartilaginous fish, such as a shark, especially in contrast to a shellfish or other aquatic animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Polypteridæ; a fin-pike.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A finback whale.
- noun True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
fish , but especially fish other thanflatfish
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Examples
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Aquaculture, the farming of freshwater and saltwater organisms such as finfish, mollusks, crustaceans and aquatic plants, is part of the college's goal of "creating new programs, revise existing programs and developing baccalaureate degrees."
KeysNews.com - admin 2010
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Aquaculture is the farming of freshwater and saltwater organisms such as finfish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants.
unknown title 2009
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Meanwhile, you've probably noticed that South Louisiana restaurants have more Gulf shellfish than finfish on their menus.
Susan Buchanan: Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms Susan Buchanan 2011
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FDA owes it to the thousands of Americans who are allergic to finfish to demand more data on the allergenicity of these engineered salmon from AquaBounty.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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Meanwhile, you've probably noticed that South Louisiana restaurants have more Gulf shellfish than finfish on their menus.
Susan Buchanan: Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms Susan Buchanan 2011
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FDA owes it to the thousands of Americans who are allergic to finfish to demand more data on the allergenicity of these engineered salmon from AquaBounty.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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Corrigan noted that a Seafish Mariculture, LLC finfish project, attached to oil and gas rigs in Texas, collapsed when fish cages were struck by storms and hurricanes in the late 1990's.
Susan Buchanan: Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms Susan Buchanan 2011
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Corrigan noted that a Seafish Mariculture, LLC finfish project, attached to oil and gas rigs in Texas, collapsed when fish cages were struck by storms and hurricanes in the late 1990's.
Susan Buchanan: Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms Susan Buchanan 2011
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Commercial fishermen harvested more than 1 billion pounds of finfish and shellfish in 2008.
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In 2008, commercial fishermen landed 600m kg of finfish and shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico, generating $659m.
Barack Obama and BP warn of risks in oil spill 'open heart surgery' 2010
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