Noun:

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pilchard's Usage Examples:

The principal modern industry, however, is fishing, especially for pilchard.

Mackerel, however, are landed principally at the southern ports, and the pilchard is taken almost solely off the south-western coast.

He set up ironworks in that neighbourhood, opened lead-mines and marblequarries, established a pilchard fishery, and commenced a trade in timber.

In November 5890 a thousand of the fish were obtained in two days from the pilchard boats fishing near Plymouth; these were caught near the Eddystone.

They resemble those of the sprat and pilchard in having a segmented yolk and there is no oil globule.

The pilchard is one of the most important fishes of the English Channel.

The sprat, pilchard or sardine and shad are species of the same genus.

It is allied to the European species of shad and pilchard, and, like the latter, approaches the coast in immense shoals, which are found throughout the year in some part of the littoral waters between Maine and Florida, the northern shoals retiring into deeper water or to more southern latitudes with the approach of cold weather.

Ruins of the so-called "fish palaces" testify to the failure of the pilchard fishery in the 18th century.

Pilchard, herrings, whiting and mackerel are taken, and salmon in the Teign.

Synonyms:

saltwater fish, sardine,

Antonyms:

spiny-finned fish,