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What is a menhaden?

What is a menhaden? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait.
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They are surface feeders, and swim in large schools in quest of menhaden, scup, and other small fishes.
Frigatebirds feed primarily on flying fish, but will also take menhaden, squid or jellyfish.
The town was founded in 1874, and it did well for itself thanks to a small, oily, bony fish called menhaden.
These larger animals include the great schools of fish, such as tuna, menhaden, cod and mackerel, which we catch for food.
Capt. Benjamin Ashby says that they feed on mackerel, herring, whiting, and menhaden.
A small, oily fish — also called bunker or pogy — the Atlantic menhaden is rarely eaten by humans, and little known outside of coastal circles.

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