DCHP-2

green fish DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 — Nfld

  See 1965 quote.

  See also: dry fish (def. 2)  green  mud-fish  

  • 1777  (1792)  We heaved a pile, piled some green fish, and washed out two bulks.
  • 1832  . . . mud-fish, or green fish, is generally understood to be cod-fish, either wholly or partially split and pickled.
  • 1965  After the fish [having been headed, gutted and split] are washed, they are forked into the home-made wooden. wheelbarrows and taken to the 'rooms' at the head of the wharf where they are stacked in heavy rock salt to pickle. At this stage they are referred to as 'green fish.' After proper curing in the salt, the green fish are spread, split side up, on long racks, called flakes to dry in the sun.

• 2 — North

  fish that have not been cured.

  See also: dried fish  

  • 1940  Maggots were swarming over bales of dried fish, and "green" fish that had been frozen but was frozen no longer.