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Fish, the fish whether in raw form or processed form is known as fish. In Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary one of the meaning of fish is, the flesh of a fish used as food. A fish after cleaning, cutting of head and tail or deshelling remains fish. A person dealing in fish meat is a dealer in fish, Regional Executive, Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Board v. Fancy Food, AIR 1995 SC 1620 (1624): (1995) 4 SCC 341....
Bellows fish
A European fish Centriscus scolopax distinguished by a long tubular snout like the pipe of a bellows called also trumpet fish and snipe fish...
Bur fish
A spinose plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States esp Chilo mycterus geometricus having the power of distending its body with water or air so as to resemble a chestnut bur called also ball fish balloon fish and swellfish...
Fish farming
Fish farming, means the breeding or rearing of fish or the cultivation of shellfish (including crustaceans and molluscs of any description) for the purpose of producing food for human consumption or for transfer to other waters, but does not include the breedings, rearing or cultivation of any fish or shellfish which are purely ornamental, or which are bred, reared or cultivated for exhibition, General Rate Act, 1967, s. 26A (4). See also Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 39, para 67, p. 58....
Royal fish
Royal fish. Whale and sturgeon. These, when either thrown ashore, or caught near the coast, are the property of the King, on account of their superior excellence, 1 Bl. Com. 290. Porpoises are also said to be royal fish; see Hall on the Sea Shore, 2nd Edn. p. 80, App. xli. The right to royal fish may be vested in a subject by grant from the Crown or prescription....
Band fish
A small red fish of the genus Cepola the ribbon fish...
cutlass fish
a peculiar long thin marine fish Trichiurus lepturus of the southern United States and West Indies having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp daggerlike teeth called also frostfish saber fish silver eel and improperly swordfish also several related members of the genus Trichiurus It is closely related to snake mackerel...
Fish tail
Like the of a fish acting or producing something like the tail of a fish...
Flying fish
A fish which is able to leap from the water and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoeligtus and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans...
Margate fish
A sparoid fish Diabasis aurolineatus of the Gulf of Mexico esteemed as a food fish called also red mouth grunt...
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