pilchard's Usage Examples:

Recipes: salt pilchards can be enjoyed hot or cold.

It feeds on mackerel, pilchards and herrings and, following the shoals, is often caught by fishermen in the nets along with its prey.

A hundred years ago Mousehole was a bustling port, crowded with local fishing boats, landing pilchards.

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.

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

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.

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

Newlyn has been exporting salted pilchards to Italy since c.

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

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

The egg of the pilchard is very easily distinguished from other pelagic eggs by the unusually large space separating the vitelline membrane from the contained ovum.

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

pilchards in tomato sauce, with rice.

Synonyms:

saltwater fish, sardine,

Antonyms:

spiny-finned fish,