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FULL ROE [2 records]

Record 1 2018-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
CONT

Code roe. The roes are the eggs from mature female fish. A full roe consists of two lobes joined together by membrane, the eggs being held together in translucent skin. They can vary in colour from pink to deep red.

OBS

cod roe: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • cod roes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
CONT

Les œufs de morue sont vendus frais, cuits à l'eau, fumés, en conserve, congelés, salés ou sous forme de caviar de morue et de saucisse de rogue de morue. Ils sont aussi vendus frits, chauds ou froids.

OBS

œuf de morue : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • oeufs de morue

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Spent or skotten herring have lost all their milt or roe, and are in a very poor condition, having no fat about their intestines... The spent herring... rapidly leave the coast and retire into deeper water, where they remain for a time and then return as maties to the shallows, and develop their reproductive organs, becoming full herring in the course of three or four months...

CONT

The male and spent herring are usually discarded as waste products, although small amounts are used for fish meal, silage and pet food production.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
OBS

BT-22.

Spanish

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