Menhaden

·noun An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers;

— called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, ·etc.

menhaden
(Alosa menhaden. Storer, Massachusetts Report.) A fish of the herring kind abounding in the waters o...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.