Meanings

splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens)

red sea bream (Pagrus major)

sea bream (esp. Pagrus major)

rice with minced sea bream (tai)

striped beakfish (Oplegnathus fasciatus)

black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)

tilefish (Branchiostegus spp.)

to throw in a shrimp and pull out a whale

red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major)

Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae)

a diamond on a dunghill is still a diamond

Asian sheepshead wrasse (Semicossyphus reticulatus)

red sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo)

crimson sea bream (Evynnis japonica)

star snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus stellatus)

spotstripe snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus ophuysenii)

silver sea bream (Sparus sarba)

silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)

scalpel sawtail (Prionurus scalprum)

yellowback sea bream (Dentex tumifrons)