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
Incidentally it held plenty of coarse fish, of no great size, likewise stupendous eels—item of course mud-turtles galore.
From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
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
Pollack-fishing, as a sport, does not appeal to me; according to my experience, it consists in hauling up coarse fish out of deep water by means of a hook baited with red flannel.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin
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 Jefferies, Richard
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