freshwater fish

Other forms: freshwater fishes

Definitions of freshwater fish

1. noun

   flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
   types:

   bream, freshwater bream

   flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe

   bass, freshwater bass

   any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)

   carp

   the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised

   buffalofish

   large carp-like North American fish

   pike

   highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh

   sucker

   flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

   catfish, mudcat

   flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed

   perch

   any of numerous fishes of America and Europe

   sunfish

   the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

   brook trout, speckled trout

   a delicious freshwater food fish

   lake trout

   flesh of large trout of northern lakes

   whitefish

   flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

   largemouth bass

   flesh of largemouth bass

   smallmouth bass

   flesh of smallmouth bass

   muskellunge

   flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish

   pickerel

   flesh of young or small pike

   crappie

   small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers

   cisco, lake herring

   cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward

   type of:

   seafood

   edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc