| Common name | Bloater |
| Language | English |
| Type | Market |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 4 - (Less common name) |
| Territory | United Kingdom |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1990 |
| Life stage | product |
| Sex | N.A. |
| Core | |
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| Remarks | Large fat salted herring, generally whole ungutted, hotsmoked to get a straw color (cold-smoked in UK). Marketed whole or boned, also frozen, semi-preserved as paste, sometimes canned. |