food fish

How to use food fish in a sentence

• At Pensacola they reach a length of twenty to thirty inches, and are considered good food fish.

  Tales of Fishes | Zane Grey

• Surmullet, sur-mul′et, n. a mulloid food-fish of the genus Mullus, with two long barbels on the throat.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• As a food-fish there is, in my estimation, but one fresh-water fish that is better, the whitefish of the Great Lakes.

  Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall

• France, Russia, and the Netherlands, where it is greatly esteemed both as a game-fish and food-fish.

  Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall

• In waters where it coexists with the small-mouth bass there is no difference in their excellence as food-fish.

  Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others | James Alexander Henshall