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oolichan oil 
a clear, edible oil rendered from the oolachan and long a highly valuable food and trade item among the Coast and Inland Indians of British Columbia.
See also: fish oil oolichan grease
- 1869 The oolachan oil is clearer, purer, and more agreeable to the palate than that obtained from cod liver, and from its tonic qualities is more readily assimilated in the stomach of an invalid.
- 1963 This Grease Trail was so named because along it the Nass tribes carried much oolachan (candle-fish) oil or grease to the Upper Skeena River country.
- 1869 The oolachan oil is clearer, purer, and more agreeable to the palate than that obtained from cod liver, and from its tonic qualities is more readily assimilated in the stomach of an invalid.