peanut bunker

noun

a small menhaden.

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Meanings

nounpeanut bunker (plural peanut bunker)
  1. a small menhaden.

    In August, only a small percentage of the young-of-year peanut bunker will have left their nurseries for the open ocean.

    2022, Billy Mitchell, “The Peanut Bunker Boom”, in On The Water
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    They’ll also tell you how important these fish, both in juvenile “peanut bunker” size and full-grown adult size, are to feeding sport fish like striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tuna.

    2012, Kevin Blinkoff, “Managers to Make Big Decision on Bunker”, in On The Water

    The place was choking with peanut bunker, and everywhere I looked, birds were diving and stripers were feeding in a surface frenzy.

    2020, Dave Pickering, “Early Action: Peanut Bunker Explosion”, in The Fisherman
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