coarse fish
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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
They don't kill coarse fish now fur the fun of it.
From Four Months in a Sneak-Box by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)
With pike and coarse fish we are not troubled on the upper reaches, though lower down they exist in certain quantities.
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
To utilize this resource, and possibly to help control "coarse fish" populations for the betterment of sport-fishing, some provision for commercial harvest should be made in the reservoir.
From Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas by Minckley, W. L.
The same remarks apply to a certain extent to waters which will not support trout, or where the owner wants more coarse fish.
From Amateur Fish Culture by Walker, Charles Edward
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