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ling·cod | \ ˈliŋ-ˌkäd 
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\Definition of lingcod
: a large often greenish-fleshed fish (Ophiodon elongatus) of the Pacific coast of North America that is an important food and sport fish and belongs to the same family as the greenlings
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Recent Examples on the Web Up to 80 local boats supply a mix of salmon, halibut, rockfish, lingcod, sablefish and more to the program.
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Anchorage Daily News, "COVID-19 forces cancellation of annual Alaska fish and crab surveys," 9 June 2020 In the next moments, all around me, lines were tight and various species of fish landed on the deck — lingcod, yellow-eye, black bass, even a mottled, black-and-orange, non-pelagic rockfish with venomous quills.
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Anchorage Daily News, "Sometimes, fishing is just what the teledoc ordered," 27 Apr. 2020 Unwind nearby with a craft beer and lingcod and chips at Batch 44 Brewery & Kitchen, Sechelt’s first craft brewery.
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Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, "A British Columbia Road Trip With Forest Views and Craft Brews," 26 Feb. 2020 With large fang-like teeth, lingcod are marine predators prized for their large fillets of mild, flakey meat.
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Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, "Without abalone, spearfishing hooks North Coast anglers," 17 June 2019 These are excellent tides for salmon, halibut, rockfish and lingcod.
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Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, "Bay anglers score best catch numbers in a lifetime," 27 June 2019 In other Alaska fisheries - A lingcod fishery reopened at East Yakutat on June 7 and Southeast’s shrimp beam trawl fishery reopens on July 1 with a 175,000 pound combined harvest of pink and sidestripes.
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Anchorage Daily News, "Alaska’s commercial salmon season is off to a mixed start," 19 June 2019 When abalone limits shrank to three per day, Fonts expanded his hunting and foraging to rockfish, lingcod, crab and kelp.
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Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, "Without abalone, spearfishing hooks North Coast anglers," 17 June 2019 Incidental catches of Pacific halibut and lingcod were released unharmed.
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sacbee, "Fishing line: Sacramento River sees plenty of stripers and shad | The Sacramento Bee," 30 Apr. 2018
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