food fish
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- noun
:
pescado comestible
- The government introduced regulations to protect food fish populations, ensuring sustainable fishing practices for future generations.
- live food fish
Examples
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In the case of live food fish, fishermen are taught hook-and-line techniques for catching groupers and, most importantly, simple ways to decompress the fish's air bladders to ensure post-harvest survival and health.
Academic text (1998) -
Information on the status of food-fish populations is completely inadequate, however.
Academic text (1996) -
The return of this important food fish would also make an important resource available to local populations.
Academic text (2009) -
The population of sharks grows, the food fish start dying out again, and we cycle.
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Some 20,000 tons of live reef food fish were imported into Hong Kong in 1997.
Academic text (1998) -
In 2002, one-third of the world's total food fish supply was derived from aquaculture, the fastest growing sector of production.
Academic text (2005) -
Native food fishes, if kept from extinction, can certainly be restored to the marketplace through aquaculture.
Academic text (1992) -
The most important freshwater food fishes in East Africa have already vanished from the marketplaces and very nearly from the planet.
Academic text (1992) -
The live reef fish trade in Southeast Asia has an estimated annual retail value of $1.2 billion (U.S. dollars), $1 billion of which consists of exports of food fish (mostly to Hong Kong) and $200 million of which consists of exports of aquarium fish to Europe and North America.
Academic text (1998) -
The Pirarucu is one of the main food fish of the Amazon, offering a vital source of nutrition for local communities.
Synonyms
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Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat
How Prized
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a fish intended for human consumption' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'food' (for eating) with 'fish' (the animal/flesh). This modifier+noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Food fish names a fish caught or farmed for food. Imagine a market where fishermen put the fish meant 'to be eaten' in one pile and other fish in another. Those meant for eating are called food fish, so the term means 'a fish to be eaten'.