noun. A silvery bluish or greenish food and game fish (Pomatomus saltatrix) of temperate and tropical waters, known for being a voracious predator.

noun. Girella cyarrea, a hæmuloid fish found in Australian waters.

noun. The usual name of a fish of the family Pomatomidæ, the Pomatomus saltatrix, also called tailor, skipjack, blue-snapper, and green-fish.

noun. An occasional (New England) name of the common cunner, Ctenolabrus adspersus. See cunner.

noun. A Californian sciænoid fish, Cynoscion parvipinne, related to the weakfish of the eastern United States.

noun. A pimelepteroid fish of the Pacific coast of the United States, Girella nigricans, of a bluish-brown color, with tricuspid incisors in an outer row, and a band of smaller teeth within.

noun. A West Indian and Floridian labroid fish, Platyglossus radiatus, with 9 dorsal spines, cheeks and opercles naked, and well-developed posterior canines.

noun. A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidæ, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

noun. A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridæ.

noun. A voracious fish, of the genus Pomatomus, found in waters of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean

noun. bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

noun. fatty bluish flesh of bluefish

"He captures all the action and introduces us to an eccentric gallery of characters that includes: Dick Hathaway, the crotchety legend who once caught a bluefish from a helicopter; Janet Messineo, a recovering alcoholic who says that striped bass saved her life; and Lev Wlodyka, a cagey local whose next fish will spark a storm of controversy and throw the tournament into turmoil."

bermuda bluefish  

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