DCHP-1 Online

gold-eyed carp Obs.

• a small edible fish, Hiodon alosoides, native to the Lake Winnipeg region, but now found over a wider range in the Northwest.

  See also: goldeye  

  • 1857  (1863)  Some of our men . . . obtained several perch and gold-eyed carp.
  • 1890  The gold eyed herring [is] so named on account of its large yellow eyes, and called by the French Canadians, laquaiche.