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candlefish 
n. a small fish, Thaleicthys pacificus, of the smelt family, native to the Pacific coast. See 1877 quote.
See also: oolichan
- 1877 . . . there is a little fish called the oolichan or candle fish; so full of oil that it can be lighted at one end and used as a candle, which is found in large quantities on this [Pacific] coast.
- 1963 This Grease Trail was so named because along it the Nass tribes carried much oolachan (candlefish) oil or grease to the Upper Skeena River country.
- 1877 . . . there is a little fish called the oolichan or candle fish; so full of oil that it can be lighted at one end and used as a candle, which is found in large quantities on this [Pacific] coast.