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black fish [4 records]

Record 1 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Tautoga onitis (black fish) is a species of bony fishes in the family [Labridae].

OBS

black fish; black-fish: common name also used to refer to other dark-coloured species.

Key term(s)
  • oysterfish
  • blackfish

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

tautogue noir : appellation commerciale française normalisée par l'Office québécois de la langue française et le Bureau de normalisation du Québec.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Centropristis striata (black sea bass) is a species of bony fishes in the family [Serranidae].

OBS

blackfish: common name also used to refer to other dark-coloured species.

Key term(s)
  • black seabass
  • black fish

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

bar noir : appellation française commerciale normalisée par l'Office québécois de la langue française et le Bureau de normalisation du Québec.

OBS

mérou noir : nom vernaculaire également employé pour désigner l'espèce Epinephelus marginatus.

OBS

perche noire : nom vernaculaire également employé pour désigner les espèces Micropterus dolomieui et Micropterus salmoides.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Ecology (General)
  • Law of the Sea
CONT

Black fish are any fish [that] are caught, retained and sold illegally, usually because a vessel has caught its full quota of a particular species but keeps fishing and catching it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Droit de la mer

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A fish of the family Umbridae.

OBS

blackfish: common name also used to refer to other dark-coloured fishes.

Key term(s)
  • Alaska black fish
  • black fish

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Poisson de la famille des Umbridae.

Spanish

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