sablefish

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From sable +‎ fish.

sablefish (plural sablefishes or sablefish)

A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters.
Synonyms: skil, beshow, coalfish, black cod, butterfish
- 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  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.

Anoplopoma fimbria