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gold-eyed carp
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a small edible fish, Hiodon alosoides, native to the Lake Winnipeg region, but now found over a wider range in the Northwest.
See: goldeye
Quotations
1857
Some of our men . . . obtained several perch and gold-eyed carp.
1890
The gold eyed herring [is] so named on account of its large yellow eyes, and called by the French Canadians, laquaiche.