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A man with a fish caught by noodling Map of the US states where noodling is legal in some form Enrique Serrano with a 60 lb (27 kg) catfish caught by noodling, on June 18, 2015. Noodling is fishing for catfish using one's bare hands or feet, and is practiced primarily in the southern United States. The noodler places their hand or foot inside a ...
The Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), also known as Chilean sea bass, mero, and icefish, [2] is a species of notothen found in cold waters (1–4 °C or 34–39 °F) between depths of 45 and 3,850 m (150 and 12,630 ft) in the southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and Southern Ocean on seamounts and continental shelves around most Subantarctic islands.
The Pacific dogfish is an elasmobranchs or cartilaginous fish which includes sharks, skates and rays. Dogfish are carnivorous or meat eaters. Their teeth are sharp and are inclined laterally in order to cut through their prey. The Pacific dogfish usually eat mollusks or crustaceans such as squid, krill, and shrimp.
Rhina cyclostomus Swainson, 1839. Rhina ancylostoma, also known as the bowmouth guitarfish, shark ray or mud skate, is a species of ray and a member of the family Rhinidae. Its evolutionary affinities are not fully resolved, though it may be related to true guitarfishes and skates. [citation needed] This rare species occurs widely in the ...
Dissostichus, the toothfish, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefish. These fish are found in the Southern Hemisphere. Toothfish are marketed in the United States as Chilean sea bass (or Chilean seabass) or less frequently as white cod. [3] ".
The African sharptooth catfish is a large, eel-like fish, usually of dark gray or black coloration on the back, fading to a white belly. In Africa , this catfish has been reported as being second in size only to the vundu of the Zambesian waters, [ 3 ] although FishBase suggests the African sharptooth catfish surpasses that species in both ...
The American paddlefish is a smooth-skinned freshwater fish with an almost entirely cartilaginous skeleton and a paddle-shaped rostrum (snout), which extends nearly one-third its body length. It has been referred to as a freshwater shark because of its heterocercal tail or caudal fin resembling that of sharks, though it is not closely related. [7]
The eastern shovelnose ray is an elasmobranch, a subclass of cartilaginous fish including sharks, rays, skates and sawfish — the modern descendants of the first jawed vertebrates. [11] This subclass are generally apex predators and therefore occupy the highest trophic level in their ecosystems, meaning they are at the top of the food-chain.