Also tarwine. [? Native name] An Australian fish, Chrysophrys sarba, used for food.
1871. Once a Week, VIII. 23 Dec., 553/1. Here black bream, tarwine, flat-head, whiting, river gar-fish, and several varieties of mullet are the chief net fish.
1880. Inglis, Austral. Cousins, 298. In the brackish waters near Lake Macquarie, are most plentiful supplies of black bream, tarwine, flathead, whiting, river gar-fish and others.
1883. E. P. Ramsay, Food Fishes N. S. Wales, 12 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.). The black bream (Chrysophrys australis) and the tarwhine (Ch. hasta) are both valuable food-fish,… they attain a weight of 4 to 5 lbs.
