peanut bunker

peanut bunker (plural peanut bunker)

1. a small menhaden.
   • 2012, Kevin Blinkoff, “Managers to Make Big Decision on Bunker”, in On The Water‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2020, Dave Pickering, “Early Action: Peanut Bunker Explosion”, in The Fisherman‎^[2]:

     The place was choking with peanut bunker, and everywhere I looked, birds were diving and stripers were feeding in a surface frenzy.

   • 2022, Billy Mitchell, “The Peanut Bunker Boom”, in On The Water‎^[3]:

     In August, only a small percentage of the young-of-year peanut bunker will have left their nurseries for the open ocean.