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A pilchard, or sardine, is a small, oily fish related to the herring family, Clupeidae
Pilchard may also refer to:
- European pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, true sardine
- HMS Pilchard, a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner
- Pilchard the Cat, a paradoxically-named character in the Bob the Builder television series
- South American pilchard, Sardinops sagax, aka Pacific sardine, California sardine, Chilean sardine, South African sardine
- Yellow-eye mullet, Aldrichetta forsteri