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peanut bunker en · NOUN

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1. a small menhaden.
   • In August, only a small percentage of the young-of-year peanut bunker will have left their nurseries for the open ocean. 2022, Billy Mitchell, “The Peanut Bunker Boom”, in On The Water:
   • The place was choking with peanut bunker, and everywhere I looked, birds were diving and stripers were feeding in a surface frenzy. 2020, Dave Pickering, “Early Action: Peanut Bunker Explosion”, in The Fisherman:
   • They’ll also tell you how important these fish, both in juvenile “peanut bunker” size and full-grown adult size, are to feeding sport fish like striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tuna. 2012, Kevin Blinkoff, “Managers to Make Big Decision on Bunker”, in On The Water:

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