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Biblical fisherman longs to catch golden fish (4,6)

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I believe the answer is:

john dories

'fish' is the definition.
(plural of John Dory)

'biblical fisherman longs to catch golden' is the wordplay.
'biblical fisherman' becomes 'john' (John the Apostle).
'longs' becomes 'dies' (to be dying for something is to long for it).
'to catch' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'golden' becomes 'or'.
'dies' enclosing 'or' is 'dories'.
'john'+'dories'='JOHN DORIES'

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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