How to Use sport fish in a Sentence

sport fish

noun

• Salmon, the most popular seafood and sport fish in the world, are in danger.
  — Courtney Linder, Gloria Dawson, Dan Shapley, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
• And as a bonus, now locals would be able to enjoy a great sport fish.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 10 Sep. 2019
• Wait, the state is going to rid a lake of a native Utah fish to create a safe haven for nonnative sport fish?
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2021
• The sport fish, introduced in lakes over the past 100 years, have outcompeted native bull trout in many of them.
  — Janine Latus, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
• Pike, with their mouthful of teeth, are revered as a sport fish for their fight, but the fast-growing predatory fish don’t belong in Utah Lake.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
• But none was found to have played a significant role in the sport fish trends in the upper Mississippi.
  — John Flesher, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• Weakfish used to be a popular and abundant sport fish in southern New England and the mid-Atlantic.
  — Capt. John McMurray, Field & Stream, 10 Feb. 2020
• According to public records, Holman is a pilot and owns a sport fish lodge in the Bristol Bay region.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2022
• These large trout became a favored sport fish for the anglers who flock to Bear Lake, but the species is hard on the lake’s native fish, including four that live nowhere else.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
• The Dingell-Johnson sport fish restoration program has been active since 1950.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2018
• In 1950, Congress placed a similar tax on fishing and boating equipment to fund the recovery of sport fish.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2022
• Join a naturalist for this live Zoom program to find fishing hot spots and learn about common sport fish of Will County.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2021
• Popular sport fish species have declined in the lower portions of the system, as well as forage fish, which represent the middle of the food chain.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
• The chub is resilient — but hasn't evolved to withstand the sudden introduction of predatory sport fish.
  — CBS News, 15 June 2022
• The Metroparks Fishing Fund raises funds all year round, and helps the park system to stock its ponds, rivers and lakes with rainbow trout, channel catfish, largemouth bass and other sport fish.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 6 May 2021
• Management of walleyes, commonly cited as the most popular sport fish in the state, has long been a challenging issue for the DNR.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
• The Dingell-Johnson sport fish restoration program was modeled after P-R and has been active since 1950.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
• Twenty years ago, June suckers were well on their way to oblivion due to Utahns’ use of Utah Lake as a place to dump pollution and stock with sport fish and other nonnatives.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Jan. 2021
• That might be idyllic for a summer dip under the blazing Arizona summer sun, Gunn said, but approaches peril for the beloved sport fish.
  — Brittany Peterson, ajc, 17 Sep. 2022
• Inland fisheries also were affected by the freeze, but not as severely and not to the detriment of freshwater sport fish.
  — Matt Watt, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2021
• Atlantic pollock are closely related to cod, but never gained the same acceptance as either a food or a sport fish.
  — Capt. John McMurray, Field & Stream, 10 Feb. 2020
• The sport fish restoration program obtains its money through a 10% excise tax on fishing rods, reels and lures as well as a motorboat fuel tax.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2021
• At the time some commercial fishers sought to keep bycatch, or incidentally caught sport fish such as walleyes.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2021
• The chub is resilient but hasn't evolved to withstand sudden introduction of predatory sport fish.
  — Brittany Peterson and John Flesher, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• The reefs will provide hard-bottom habitat where saltwater sport fish such as speckled trout, redfish and flounder are likely to hang out.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
• The surveys range in scope from simply talking to anglers all the way to using nets, traps and shocking devices for sampling sport fish populations.
  — Dallas News, 8 May 2021
• With more predators around, populations of shrimp, crabs and smaller fish that sport fish commonly eat, all declined.
  — Joseph W. Reustle, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2020
• So the sport fish division gets the revenue from that, although commercial fishing does the assessment and management for it.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2020
• The species is designated as a sport fish in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan but no commercial fishing is allowed for it.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2022
• The Scoop: The largemouth is America’s favorite sport fish for a reason — there are countless ways to fish for them, and nothing beats their ambush predator hunting tactics.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 19 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024