rock salmon

rock salmon
a commercial name for fish sold in fried-fish form in Britain. Used for fish not known to the public or the vendor, of for fish of ungainly appearance or poor reputation. Often a small shark, Squalus acanthias

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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