The milkfish (Chanos chanos) — bangus in the Philippines, where it is the national fish — is a large, sleek, silvery food fish of the warm Indo-Pacific, prized for its soft, oily, mild white flesh. Its single failing is a notorious lattice of fine intramuscular bones, a problem so central to the fish that an entire deboning craft and a "boneless bangus" industry have grown up around it.