rough fish

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   any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait

   Broaderfish

Questions about rough fish

What does rough fish mean?

rough fish means "any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait".

Is rough fish a common word?

rough fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.