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turbot
noun
A species of flatfish native to Europe, .
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Seafood lovers will thrill at the fresh oysters, crayfish, turbot and monkfish.
His findings gained more publicity in September, when he offered photographers deformed turbot and other species pulled from the river.
Its combative premier, Brian Tobin federal fisheries minister during the Spanish "turbot war"—sees many millions more in the renegotiation with Quebec of a 1969 hydroelectric contract, whereby that province buys power from Labrador dirt-cheap and makes C$600m a year selling it on to New England.The issue will be to turn official money into jobs: neither oil nor nickel will generate many directly.
Several other flatfish are also called turbot.
Pleuronectiform (order Pleuronectiformes), also called flatfish, any one of about 680 species of bony fishes characterized by oval-shaped, flattened bodies as in the flounder, halibut, and turbot.
The most important species caught in eastern waters arehaddock, redfish, flatfish, turbot, pollock, flounder, sole, halibut, herring, mackerel, tuna, and lobster; cod remains an important sport fish.
The most commercially important ocean fish are species of salmon, herring, codfish, flatfish (flounder, sole, halibut, turbot), redfish (ocean perch), jack mackerel, tuna, mackerel, and sardine.
Cod, haddock, whiting, herring, plaice, halibut, turbot, and sole are caught in the North and Irish seas.
Among them are the Black Sea turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus), a relative of the European species, and certain right-sided, Pacific Ocean flatfish of the genus Pleuronichthys and the family Pleuronectidae.
The fourth relates how Domitian summoned his cringing Cabinet to consider an absurdly petty problem: how to cook a turbot too large for any ordinary pan.
Deep-sea trawlers exploited the rich fisheries that extended from the Davis Strait into Baffin Bay, where valuable turbot, shrimp, and crabs were found.
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