mossbunker
Brevoortia tyrannus latin

The dropping tide slowly pulled us off the flat into deeper water, where a school of tightly packed mossbunker splashed along the surface.

Mossbunker, also known as menhaden, are a large, fatty herring species, and bunker spoons are immense artificial lures that emulate them.

Raritan Bay is normally not a prime location for large stripers, but they had been drawn there by the presence of schools of mossbunker, a favorite food.

A menhaden, also known as mossbunker, bunker, and pogy, is any forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the family Clupeidae.

That program was set up five years ago (too late to clean up the fishkill) and christened Pride in Work, but Miss Glass, now the county's Commissioner of Social Services, said she and other county officials referred to it by a different name: the mossbunker program.

Brevoortia tyrannus (Atlantic menhaden).

Desseria brevoortiae - Brevoortia tyrannus

Feeding ecology of the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) in Chesapeake Bay.

The Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is a silvery, highly compressed fish in the herring family, Clupeidae.

The Spurwink River supports blueback herring, Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus), American shad, pollock, cunner, winter flounder, and little skate.

Evidence from morphology and DNA analyses suggest that the Gulf menhaden is the Gulf of Mexico complement to the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus).

The most important prey of this species in the northwestern Atlantic is the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus), with sharks of all ages off northwestern Florida eat almost nothing else.