DCHP-3

redfish

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a dwarf landlocked salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi, native to southern British Columbia.

See: kokanee

Quotations

1888
In some of the small streams which flow into the Kootenay Lake, is found what the miners call red fish they are from 3 to 6 inches long, rather flat and very good food.
1958
In addition . . . there were the little speckled trout, known as "redfish," for which we whipped the mountain torrents.
1964
Officials . . . say the fish being transplanted from British Columbia . . . is known as the kokanee, the kickaninny, the silverfish, or the redfish, depending on where you're fishing for it, and at what time of year.
2n.

a large rose-colored food fish of the genus Scorpaenidae, common in the waters of the East Coast; ocean perch.

Quotations

1954
Newfoundland east coast redfish vessels have concentrated on the larger redfish of the eastern edge of the Grand Bank.
1963
Two fish stories this week, the first about redfish. If you're eating these anywhere but Newfoundland, you probably call them ocean perch.