How to Use groundfish in a Sentence

groundfish

noun

• Pollock is a species of groundfish that lives near the bottom of the ocean.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• It’s a groundfish that doesn’t taste like a bottom dweller.
  — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 16 June 2021
• The trawler man still struggles to find a market for his groundfish.
  — Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• In the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, boats are pulling in pollock, cod, flounders and other groundfish.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2021
• At Sand Point, Trident employs up to 400 workers to process salmon and groundfish.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2018
• The department hopes to avoid a repeat of this year's groundfish closure.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Rafael, a once formidable New Bedford fishing magnate, had owned one of the largest groundfish fishing fleets in the United States at the time of his downfall.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Each year, the federal government sets quotas for the total poundage of different species of groundfish that can be fished on the entire West Coast.
  — Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• Fishing for pollock, cod, flounders and other groundfish also continues throughout the Gulf and Bering Sea.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2021
• The annual survey gets some federal funding to assess weights and lengths of any groundfish such as cod, halibut, rockfish or pollock that are hauled up but the primary focus is Tanner crab.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2020
• Unlike Dungeness crab and salmon, groundfish could be harvested year-round, providing an economic backbone for ports.
  — Gillian Flaccus, The Denver Post, 26 Dec. 2019
• The agency stated that the ‘‘great majority of Rafael’s civil and criminal violations involved the groundfish fishery,’’ which harvests species such as cod and haddock.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Commercially important groundfish such as cod and haddock are migrating poleward in search of more suitable habitat.
  — Timothy Shank, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
• When aggregating across different kinds of groundfish, these percentages were averaged, consistent with how NOAA calculates its 15.5% cap.
  — Will Sennott, ProPublica, 6 July 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024