A European Freshwater Game Fish With A Cylindrical Body

[ETBrainstormer]

Sunday Express General Knowledge crossword. 12 down C??B. Any ideas folks? Many thanks in advance.

[Prudie]

Chub ?

[dannyk13]

Chub

[ubasses]

chub

[mallyh]

chub

[ETBrainstormer]

Best answer is Chub. Many thanks to you all

[shoota]

Chub

[shoota]

(Actually it is a 'coarse' fish, not a 'game' fish.)

[shoota]

Are you 100% sure of the 'B' because it could be the 'Char' which is a game fish?

[Mamyalynne]

May have to blame the dictionary, that's how some have it...


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/chub

[Davemano]

Collins describes Chub identical to the clue. Almost all S Express clues correspond with Collins definitions.

[shoota]

//Coarse fishing is a term used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for angling for coarse fish. Coarse fish are freshwater fish that are distinguished from game fish. Freshwater game fish are all salmonids – most particularly salmon, trout and char – so generally coarse fish are freshwater fish that are not salmonids.//

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coarse_fishing

How would one notify them of such an error? (The chub is a member of the Carp family - Cyprinidae.)

[frugalfred]

Absolutely correct, shoota.

[Mamyalynne]

Contact Collins Dictionary.

Is the Char European?

[shoota]

The Arctic Char has a very limited distribution in the UK, mainly in the Lake District I believe.
(I've never seen one, they are very rare.)

[Togo]

Arctic Char I think. Although there is a rare Welsh one in a reservoir somewhere.

[Davemano]

And a Carp is described in Collins as a freshwater teleost food fish.

[frugalfred]

Lake Bala?

[Mamyalynne]

Ta for that - Chambers has Char as a river fish , no mention of coarse or game so the choice of dictionary used is what has caused this mix up.

[Mamyalynne]

Chambers has 'Chub' sorry, I am muxed up too^^^

[Togo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Peris

Just up the road.