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  2. Freshwater fish - Wikipedia

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    Freshwater fish are fish species that spend some or all of their lives in bodies of fresh water such as rivers, lakes and inland wetlands, where the salinity is less than 1.05%. These environments differ from marine habitats in many ways, especially the difference in levels of osmolarity .

  3. Glossary of fishery terms - Wikipedia

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    Pond Inoculation: This is the introduction of proper plankton’s species into the pond. PH scale: PH stands for Potential Hydrogen, generally most freshwater fish like a pH value of between 6.5 and 8. For the catfish, acceptable pH value for their pond is between 6.5 and 7.

  4. Chain pickerel - Wikipedia

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    The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) all-tackle world record chain pickerel is a 4.25 kg (9.4 lb) fish, caught in Homerville, Georgia on February 17, 1961 by angler Baxley McQuaig, Jr., while the IGFA all-tackle length world record is 65 centimetres (26 in) long, caught in Henderson Harbor, Lake Ontario, New York on November 4, 2019 ...

  5. List of freshwater aquarium fish species - Wikipedia

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    The Saddleback Loach will thrive in an aquarium with a good amount of water flow and aeration, considerable amounts of hiding places formed by rocks or driftwood and smooth pebbles and stones to graze on. [54] 68 - 78 F (20 - 25.6 C) [54] 6 - 7.5 [54] Dwarf botia: Ambastaia sidthimunki: 5.5 cm (2.2 in) Formerly named Botia sidthimunki. Bengal loach

  6. Freshwater environmental quality parameters - Wikipedia

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    The toxicity of ammonia is dependent on both pH and temperature and an added complexity is the buffering effect of the blood/water interface across the gill membrane which masks any additional toxicity over about pH 8.0. The management of river chemistry to avoid ecological damage is particularly difficult in the case of ammonia as a wide range ...

  7. Common roach - Wikipedia

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    The roach, or rutilus roach (Rutilus rutilus), also known as the common roach, is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the family Cyprinidae, native to most of Europe and western Asia. Fish called roach can be any species of the genera Rutilus, Leucos and Hesperoleucus, depending on locality. The plural of the term is also roach. [3]

  8. Bigmouth buffalo - Wikipedia

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    It was officially recognized to be the new world record by the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame as both 8-lb-line class and all tackle. [citation needed] At Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, Jeff Wilkins caught a record 62-pound (28 kg) bigmouth buffalo while fishing on Percy Priest Lake. The fish, caught in the Seven Points area of the lake on ...

  9. Freshwater biology - Wikipedia

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    Oxsjön, a lake in Sweden. Freshwater biology focuses on environments like lakes. A pond in the Oconee River Floodplain in Georgia, whose surface is covered in duckweed but still contains fish. Freshwater biology is the scientific biological study of freshwater ecosystems and is a branch of limnology. This field seeks to understand the ...