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Whitefish definition

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Any of various freshwater salmonid food fishes of the genera Coregonus and Prosopium chiefly of North America, having a generally white or silvery color.
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Any of various similar or related fishes, such as the lake herring, whiting, or menhaden.
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Any of various white or silvery, edible freshwater trouts (genera Prosopium and Coregonus) found in cool lakes of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Any of various other similar fishes, as a tilefish (Caulolatilus princeps) of the Pacific.
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Any of many fish.
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The beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale)
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whitefish
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Whitefish Sentence Examples

  • The city has lumber and fishing interests (perch, whitefish, sturgeon, pickerel, bass, &c. being caught in Saginaw Bay), large machine shops and foundries (value of products in 1905, $ 1, 743, 1 55, or 31% of the total of the city's factory products), and various manufactures, including ships (wooden and steel), wooden ware, woodpipe, veneer, railroad machinery, cement, alkali and chicory.

  • Whitefish, bass, trout and pickerel are an important food supply obtained from the waters of the lake, and some perch, catfish and sunfish are caught in the rivers and brooks.

  • McKinley Park on the lake shore south of the city, and Whitefish Bay 6 m.

  • The blue pike, whitefish and herring, obtained on Lake Erie are of;,;, considerable commercial importance.

  • In 1908 the total catch on Lake Erie was valued at $200,869, the principal items being herring ($90,108), blue pike ($13,657) and whitefish ($31,580).

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