Word: whitebait
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...species give it the rank of the world's most eaten fish. It abounds in the northern Atlantic, swims in schools of hundreds of millions. Its infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait. The largest, known as "herring king," is named shad. He is dark blue above, white beneath and carries as much as ten pounds of most delectable flesh. But?and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught last year by fishermen than were...