white hake

American  

noun

1. a food fish, Urophycis tenuis, inhabiting marine waters, especially off the North Atlantic coast of the United States.

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Example Sentences

Stocks added to the overfished list include Pacific sardine, Atlantic Coast bluefish, Gulf of Maine white hake and Georges Bank winter flounder.

From Washington Times

Puffins in the Gulf of Maine normally eat white hake and herring, but warmer oceans are causing these fish to move north.

From The Guardian

Their chicks can only fit smaller, narrower fish, such as white hake –into their beaks and they have trouble swallowing larger, oval-shaped species like butterfish.

From The Guardian

Indeed, Kress says two of the puffin’s favorite foods, herring and white hake, have been shown to be sensitive to changes in surface sea temperature.

From National Geographic