#food_fish  any fish used for food by human beings
  supertype:  #fish  any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
  subtype:  #groundfish__bottom_fish  fish that live on the sea bottom especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder
  subtype:  #shad  herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn
     subtype:  #common_American_shad__Alosa_sapidissima  shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
     subtype:  #river_shad__rivershad__alosachrysoclori  shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima
     subtype:  #allice_shad__allis_shad__allisshad__allice__allis__alli__Alosa_alosa  European shad
  subtype:  #Clupea_harangus__herring  commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
     subtype:  #Atlantic_herring__Clupea_harengus_harengus  important food fish; found in enormous shoals in North Atlantic
     subtype:  #Pacific_herring__Clupea_harengus_pallasii  important food fish of the north Pacific
  subtype:  #sardine  any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
     subtype:  #sild  any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway
     subtype:  #Clupea_sprattus__brisling__sprat  small herring processed like a sardine
  subtype:  #salmon  any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
     subtype:  #blackfish  female salmon that has recently spawned
     subtype:  #redfish  male salmon that has recently spawned
     subtype:  #Salmo_salar__Atlantic_salmon  found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning
        subtype:  #landlocked_salmon__lake_salmon  Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada
     subtype:  #blueback_salmon__sockeye__sockeyesalmon__redsalmon__Onchorynchus_nerka  small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the north Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
     subtype:  #quinnat_salmon__quinnatsalmon__chinook__chinooksalmon__king_salmon__Onchorynchus_tshawtscha  large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
     subtype:  #blue_jack__coho__cohoe__coho_salmon__silver_salmon__Onchorynchus_kisutch  small salmon of north Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
  subtype:  #trout  any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
     subtype:  #brown_trout__browntrout__salmon_trout__Salmo_trutta  speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
        subtype:  #sea_trout__seatrout  silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn
     subtype:  #Salmo_gairdneri__rainbow_trout__rainbowtrout  found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
     subtype:  #Salvelinus_namaycush__lake_trout__salmon_trout  large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
     subtype:  #Salvelinus_fontinalis__brook_trout__speckled_trout  North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
  subtype:  #whitefish  silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
     subtype:  #lake_whitefish__Coregonus_clupeaformis  found in Great Lakes and north to Alaska
     subtype:  #Coregonus_artedi__cisco__lake_herring  important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
     subtype:  #round_whitefish__Menominee_whitefish__Prosopium_cylindraceum  bronze-backed whitefish of northern North America and Siberia
     subtype:  #Rocky_Mountain_whitefish__Prosopium_williamsonii  whitefish of the western United States and Canada
  subtype:  #sea_bass  any of various food and sport fishes of the United States Atlantic coast having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
     subtype:  #blackmouth_bass__Synagrops_bellus  small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity
     subtype:  #rock_sea_bass__rock_bass__Centropristis_philadelphica  a kind of sea bass
     subtype:  #black_sea_bass__black_bass__Centropistes_striata  bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
     subtype:  #Roccus_saxatilis__striped_bass__striper__rockfish  marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
     subtype:  #stone_bass__wreckfish__Polyprion_americanus  brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks
     subtype:  #belted_sandfish__Serranus_subligarius  found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic
     subtype:  #grouper  usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
        subtype:  #Epinephelus_fulvus__coney  black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
        subtype:  #hind.grouper  any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
           subtype:  #rock_hind__Epinephelus_adscensionis  found around rocky coasts or on reefs
        subtype:  #creole-fish__Paranthias_furcifer  deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic
        subtype:  #jewfish__mycteropercabonaci  large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
  subtype:  #snapper  any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
     subtype:  #Lutjanus_blackfordi__red_snapper  esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in American Atlantic coastal waters and Gulf of Mexico
     subtype:  #gray_snapper__mangrove_snapper__Lutjanus_griseus  found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
     subtype:  #mutton_snapper__muttonfish__Lutjanus_analis  similar to and often marketed as "red snapper"
     subtype:  #Lutjanus_apodus__schoolmaster  food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
     subtype:  #yellowtail_snapper__yellowtail__Ocyurus_chrysurus  superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail
  subtype:  #tuna__tunny  any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
     subtype:  #long-fin_tunny__albacore__Thunnus_alalunga  large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
     subtype:  #horse_mackerel__horsemackerel__bluefin__bluefin_tuna__bluefintuna__Thunnus_thynnus  largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
     subtype:  #yellowfin_tuna__yellowfintuna__yellowfin__Thunnus_albacares  may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics
  subtype:  #sole.flatfish  right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
     subtype:  #European_sole__Solea_solea  highly valued as food
     subtype:  #Solea_lascaris__lemon_sole__lemonsole  small European sole
     subtype:  #Parophrys_vitulus__English_sole__lemon_sole__lemonsole  popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
     subtype:  #sand_sole__Psettichthys_melanostichus  common flatfish of North American Pacific coast
     subtype:  #hogchoker__Trinectes_maculatus  useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama

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