atlantic herring

English Thesaurus

1. important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	clupea harangus, herring,
definition	:	commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	clupea, genus clupea,
definition	:	type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings (noun.animal)