rock salmon

noun

(formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish

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We are not unfamiliar with that trick in the UK – those catsharks Matthew is throwing back would once have ended up in chip shops as rock salmon.