Definition of "pigfish" []

• A North American grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera) with a piglike mouth, found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States and important as a food fish. Also called hogfish. (noun)

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• "In the vicinity of Wilmington, considerable line fishing is done at times on the blackfish banks located several miles off shore, sea bass, grunts and pigfish being the species taken."
• "Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out."
• ""After the seaweed beds died off, horse mackerels and striped pigfish quickly swam away," says fisherman Mitsugi Tomita, 70."