coarse fish
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Some large coarse fish, such as chub, roach and dace were also killed.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Every year, the Environment Agency's Calverton Fish Farm near Nottingham breeds coarse fish to be released into rivers and still waters across England to help boost fish populations.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2021
The number of coarse fish in the brook which flows out of the shallow mere bounding one edge of the keeper’s domain of woods has, he thinks, very much decreased of recent years.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
The stock of coarse fish may be improved by fish culture just as much as a stock of trout.
From Amateur Fish Culture by Charles Edward Walker
The tackle for the coarse fish is of the ordinary character.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger
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