One fish that comes close is a smelt known as the capelin (.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Santa Barbara Independent stories] Reference

Mature fish feed on krill and small fish such as capelin and herring and undertake extensive feeding migrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

In 2002, the total catch of capelin was 628,000 t (Fig. 13.3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas)] Reference

An occurrence of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the Bay of Fundy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past variability in Arctic marine systems] Reference

These herring spawned near beaches, similar to capelin in these waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

However, these capelin are then available to whales, seals, and seabirds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

There was a peak capelin catch in 1992-1993, but this catch decreased subsequently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faroe Plateau large marine ecosystem] Reference

Adult harp seals feed mainly on small marine fish such as capelin, herring, sculpins (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Historically, capelin have been caught at Greenland for domestic use and animal fodder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

Under such conditions the extent of capelin spawning grounds would reduce considerably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

The population biology and exploitation of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the Barents Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

The capelin fishery is conducted by the same high-technology fleet as used for catching herring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

Within two years the total seasonal (July to March) capelin catch increased to more than one million t.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

Nevertheless, the industry managed to redirect its effort to other pelagic species – primarily capelin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas)] Reference

Total annual international landings of capelin from this stock during 1964 to 2002 are shown in Fig. 13.8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

Such changes to capelin alone could have profound consequences for many arctic seabirds in the Barents Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

The total international catch of capelin off Newfoundland and Labrador from 1960 to 2002 is shown in Fig. 13.26.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada] Reference

Whether the capelin maintain their spawning ground along the coast of northern Norway and the Kola Peninsula is unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

Before the start of a commercial offshore fishery in the early 1970's, capelin were fished on or near the spawning beaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada] Reference

Greenlandic waters also contain capelin populations that spawn at the heads of numerous fjords on the west and east coasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

Catch of capelin, 1960 – 2002 (data from NAFO STATLANT 21A online database www. nafo.int/activities/FRAMES/AcFrFish. html).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada] Reference

When herring became scarce in the late 1960s the purse seine fleet targeted capelin and catches increased rapidly in the 1970s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas)] Reference

Recent excursions of capelin (Mallotus villosus) to the Scotian Shelf and Flemish Cap during anomalous hydrographic conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past variability in Arctic marine systems] Reference

There were relatively large fluctuations in the capelin catch from 1964 to 1975, but since then the catch has been insignificant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

This fishery was also dominated by large midwater trawlers, which mostly took feeding capelin that would spawn the following year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada] Reference

Other important fisheries include those for capelin, Greenland halibut, king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), haddock, and saithe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas)] Reference

Like capelin, herring are bottom spawners with their eggs adhering to the substrate or even, as in this case, the fronds of seaweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)] Reference

Which means there is unlikely to be a resurgence of crab or shrimp populations or herring and capelin and other small pelagic species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea)] Reference