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smelt
(redirected from candlefish)

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smelt
small marine finfish Osmerus eparlanus, O. mordax.


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or more and their cousins the greenling, six species of rockfish, five species of stocked and wild salmon, and Pacific cod, all chasing candlefish, herring, anchovies, smelt and each other around the rock reefs, gravel bottoms and kelp forests along the strait.
As denizens of the deep go, the Atlantic broadbill can't hold a candlefish to the great white shark, the barracuda or the giant squid.
 
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