5.
Marshallese name
SPEARING FISH
Scientific name
Islands
Dep or
Eddeup
A fish
Uterik
Kile
big eye or burgy
Monotaxis grandoculis
Rongelap, Uterik
Utot or Dibab
butterfly fish
Chaetodon onriga
Uterik
or Wutwot
Kanbok
bass
Rongelap
Variola loutl
Jawe
giant sea bass
Promicrops lancelatus/truncatus
Rongelap, Uterik
Plectropomus truncatus
Pajrok
chub or rudder fish
Kyphosus vaigiensis
Rongelap, Uterik, Wotho
Monaknak
file fish
Uterik
Bale
starry flounder
Platichthys stellatus
Rongelap, Uterik
Jo
goatfish
Mulloidichthys samoensis
Uterik, Wotho
Jome
goatfish
Mulloidicthys samoensis
Uterik
small grouper
Ailuk, Rongelap
grouper
Epinephelus hexagonatus
Ucerik, Wotho.
Tinar
Amansis carolge
Lutjanus kasmira/forskal
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