black fish

black fish
   commercially caught fish sold illegally
   In attempts to conserve fishing stocks, limits are set on the size, quantity, and species of fish which may be sold. Unfortunately a trawl cannot be programmed to be selective, and excess or forbidden catches have either to be thrown back in the sea or landed illegally:
    ... the fishing boats are preoccupied with quota restrictions and netting regulations, and the only criminals left are scraping a living from quota-jumping 'black fish'. (Bathurst, 1999)

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