A type of edible Atlantic fish related to cod, commonly eaten in British cuisine and also known as saithe or pollock.
From Scottish and Northern English dialect, possibly related to 'coal' due to the fish's dark coloring. Used since medieval times in British fishing communities.
Coley was so common in British fish-and-chips shops that it was the poor person's fish—but recent overfishing of cod has made coley expensive, flipping the economics of working-class food!
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