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nannygai Austral.|ˈnænɪgaɪ|
Also nannyghai, nennigai.
[Aboriginal name.]
A large marine food fish, Centroberyx affinis, found off the south-eastern coast of Australia.
1871A. Oliver Fisheries New South Wales 5 Fish, common to our coast,..when properly smoked or corned, are far superior to any imported codfish or ling... Nothing can surpass a corned ‘moorra nennigai’. 1882J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish New South Wales 52 The Nannygai... Colour, a most beautiful pink, with silver stripes on the body. 1896Badminton Mag. III. 206 A great variety of large game fish..the Nannyghai, the snapper, and a dark species of rock cod. 1896F. G. Aflalo Sk. Nat. Hist. Austral. 199 The large-eyed, crimson Nannygai (Beryx), taken on the Schnapper grounds. 1947Coast to Coast 1946 237 Morwong, rock-cod, nannygai and the rest, but not a real red fish among the lot. 1965Austral. Encycl. VI. 240/1 Both [fishes] are wrongly called red snapper; the increasing use of this name in the fish trade for different species of nannygai is deprecated because of confusion with the true snapper. 1966T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries of Australia (rev. ed.) 18 In some quarters..there was a prejudice against the nannygai,..and the New South Wales Fisheries Department therefore condoned the use of the name ‘redfish’ for it, and the sales were given a helpful impetus. |