fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the livingroom there was a tank of colorful fish"

bottom fish, groundfish - fish that live on the sea bottom especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder

shad - herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn

Clupea harangus, herring - commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific

sardine - any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

trout - any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons

whitefish - silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

sea bass - any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

snapper - any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters

tunny, tuna - any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters

sole - right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European