Name for several fishes with yellow coloration; now esp. a species of rock-trout, Pleurogrammus (Hexagrammus) monopterygius, of the coast of Alaska, olive on the back and yellowish below.
1734. Mortimer, in Phil. Trans., XXXVIII. 317. Turdes cauda convexa, The Yellow-Fish.
a. 1749. Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, etc. (1754), II. 10. The Yellow Fish. Some of these Fish were a foot in length: this had small thin scales of a reddish yellow colour.
1796. Nemnich, Polygl.-Lex., 944. Yellow fish, Labrus fulvus.
1888. Goode, Amer. Fishes, 272. The ‘Yellow-fish,’ ‘Suriped Fish,’ or ‘Atka Mackerel,’ Pleurogrammus monopterygius.
