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[Mark Mandel]

There is whitefish, "any of several valuable silvery food fishes (family
Salmonidae, or in some classifications, Coregonidae), generally found in
cold northern lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America, often in deep
water." (https://www.britannica.com/animal/whitefish)

Also:
    "Redfish is a common name for several species of fish."  (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfish)
    "The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) is the only extant species of the
family Pomatomidae." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish)
   "The tautog (Tautoga onitis), also known as the blackfish ... in New
York/New Jersey, [and] New England." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautog)

MAM

(I keep thinking of Dr Seuss's *One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish*, but
that hardly counts.)

On Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 1:39 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> Is that a blend with “catfish”? It’s not mentioned in the Ebony piece,
>> but it seems plausible to me.
>>
>> LH
>>
>> > On Nov 26, 2022, at 1:35 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> > “Blackfish,” a term used to describe someone White who pretends to be
>> Black
>> > or mixed-race for financial and social gain.
>> > https://www.ebony.com/woman-dons-blackface-not-white-white/
>> >
>> > - Wilson
>> > -----
>> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> > -Mark Twain
>> >
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