grey mullet
Britishnoun
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I like to use sea bream but you can also use grey mullet, or pike if you happen to catch one.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2014
On the South-West Coast the culinary value goes up again; there are found quantities of excellent deep-sea fish, and round the mouths of the rivers, shoals of bream and grey mullet.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
He would fish off Penzance Pier for grey mullet, catching more than his companions.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser
The grey mullet, the bream—a fish much resembling in general appearance the English pike—and several others, are excellent eating.
From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Byerley, Frederick, J.
He only demanded in addition a few of those delicious grey mullet which are caught around the solitary mount.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
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