Definition of "blackfish" [black•fish]

• Any of various dark-colored fishes, such as: (noun)
• A small edible freshwater fish (Dallia pectoralis) that inhabits streams and ponds of Alaska and Siberia and is noted for its ability to withstand freezing. (noun)
• See tautog. (noun)
• See pilot whale. (noun)

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• "Photographer AJ Wilhelm and I have been chasing local and sustainable food - anything with fins, scales and gills -- wherever we could: we fished for bluefish off Orchard Beach in the Bronx, striped bass in the Verazzano Narrows, blackfish from the bottom of the New York Bight and everything that swims in Jamaica Bay."
• "On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain."
• "He told me he said that (the blackfish comment) because if I was going to start catching bigger fish than him and telling bigger fish stories than him, he was going to have to treat me like a man instead of a boy."