rock salmon

British

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.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2018

Tons of shark meat, which tastes something like lobster, are sold daily throughout the world, usually under the name of "rock salmon" or "grayfish."

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed to blame the catfish personally for not being a rock salmon.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

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