weedfish

Noun

 * 1) One of a variety of species of fish of the family  found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.
 * 2) * 1957, N. J. Berrill and Jacquelyn Berrill, 1001 Questions Answered about the Seashore, New York: Dover, p. 278,
 * In spite of fishermen’s opinions and complaints, cormorants feed principally on bottom fish of no commercial value, such as rockfish and weedfish.