maray

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


New South Wales name for the fish Clupea sagax, Jenyns, family Clupeidae or Herrings, almost identical with the English pilchard.The word Maray is thought to be an aboriginal name.Bloaters are made of this fish at Picton in New Zealand,according to the Report of the Royal Commission on Fisheries ofNew South Wales, 1880. But Agonostoma forsteri, aSea-Mullet, is also when dried called the Picton Herring(q.v). See Herring and Aua.