sablefish

plural sablefishes

1. A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters.

   Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

   1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: skil, beshow, coalfish, black cod, butterfish