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candlefish
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n.
a small fish, Thaleicthys pacificus, of the smelt family, native to the Pacific coast. See 1877 quote.
See: oolichan
Quotations
1877
. . . there is a little fish called the oolichan or candle fish; so full of oil that it can be lighted at one end and used as a candle, which is found in large quantities on this [Pacific] coast.
1963
This Grease Trail was so named because along it the Nass tribes carried much oolachan (candlefish) oil or grease to the Upper Skeena River country.