Definition of "tautog" [tau•tog]

• A dark-colored, edible marine fish (Tautoga onitis) found along the North American Atlantic coast. Also called blackfish. (noun)

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• "Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 30 weeks 3 days ago we have that problem with a certain ethnincity and tautog."
• "Thirty-three taxonomic groups of fish were collected in entrainment sampling, with five taxa cunner, bay anchovy, tautog, windowpane, and searobin comprising more than 90 percent of the sample."
• ""They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market."