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Ships most of fish for Daisy's relatives (8)

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I believe the answer is:

coasters

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'ships' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'most of fish for daisy's relatives' is the wordplay.
'most of' means to remove the last letter.
'fish' becomes 'cod' (cod is a kind of fish).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'daisy's relatives' becomes 'asters' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cod' with its final letter removed is 'co'.
'co'+'asters'='COASTERS'

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(Other definitions for coasters that I've seen before include "Small table-mats" , "Small mats for Socrates" , "Merchant ships with a limited range of operation" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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