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 Bloater (Coregonus hoyi)
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| Coregonus hoyi (Milner, 1874) |
In the USA the bloater (Coregonus hoyi) is a freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes. It is silver in color with a pink and purple iridescence and reaches an average length of 9 inches (23cm). The term is also used in British cuisine for a type of smoked herring.
In Britain the bloater is, like the kipper, a type of smoked herring, but is differentiated from the kipper by the fact that fish is smoked whole, with its innards intact. The bloater is associated with Yarmouth, England; the kipper with Scotland. According to George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier, the Emperor Charles V erected a statue to the inventor of bloaters.
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See also
British smoked herring
References
- Gimenez Dixon (1996). Coregonus hoyi. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Listed as Vulnerable (VU D2 v2.3)
- "Coregonus hoyi". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. November 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
- Coregonus hoyi (TSN 623394). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 13 July 2006.
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