coal-fish

The pollack (_Gadus pollachius_) and coal-fish (_Gadus virens_) come next in esteem.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

Sometimes, and especially for pollack, the bait must be kept near the bottom and heavy weights on the line are necessary; the coal-fish are more prone to come to the surface for feeding.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

All through the winter they had been kept at grown-up work, cutting peat and carrying wood; why should they be left now to fool about with the inshore fishing, and bring home nothing better than flounders and coal-fish and silly codlings?

The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

At this time the rock, at high-water, was completely covered with podlies, or the fry of the coal-fish, about six or eight inches in length.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

They were almost exclusively of the species called the podlie, or young coal-fish.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

But half Jæren [Footnote: Jæderen, the coast district near Stavanger.] was on the sea, boat upon boat, for the double reason of the coal-fish and that they had not an earthly thing to do upon the land, for this year the earth has yielded us everything well and very early, but the straw is short, which, if the truth must be told, is the only thing to complain of.

Norse Tales and Sketches Alexander Lange Kielland 1877

At this time the rock, at high-water, was completely covered with podlies, or the fry of the coal-fish, about six or eight inches in length.

Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

They were almost exclusively of the species called the podlie, or young coal-fish.

Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

They are used by small boys as bait, upon a bent pin, to catch young coal-fish.

The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

A few hundred yards from the shore there was a yawl lying at anchor, with an old fisherman and a few boys angling from the stern for sillocks (the young of the coal-fish) and for small rock-cod.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829