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  2. Skipjack shad - Wikipedia

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    The skipjack herring (Alosa chrysochloris) is a North American, migratory, fresh- and brackish water fish species in the herring family Alosidae. [3] The name skipjack shad comes from the fact that it is commonly seen leaping out of the water while feeding. [4]

  3. Sauger - Wikipedia

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    The sauger (Sander canadensis) is a freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae that resembles its close relative, the walleye. The species is a member of the largest vertebrate order, the Perciformes. [3] It is the most migratory percid species in North America. [4]

  4. North Pacific hake - Wikipedia

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    It is a migratory offshore fish and undergoes a daily vertical migration from the surface to the seabed at depths down to about 1,000 m (3,300 ft). It is the object of an important commercial fishery off the West Coast of the United States, and annual quotas are used to prevent overfishing.

  5. Indo-Pacific blue marlin - Wikipedia

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    The classification of the Indo-Pacific blue marlin (M. mazara) and the Atlantic blue marlin (M. nigricans) as separate species is under debate. [1] Genetic data suggest, although the two groups are isolated from each other, that they are both the same species, with the only genetic exchange occurring when Indo-Pacific blue marlin migrate to and ...

  6. Taxonomy of fish - Wikipedia

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    Fishes are a paraphyletic group and for this reason, the class Pisces seen in older reference works is no longer used in formal taxonomy.Traditional classification divides fish into three extant classes (Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, and Osteichthyes), and with extinct forms sometimes classified within those groups, sometimes as their own classes: [1]

  7. Fish migration - Wikipedia

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    Many species of salmon are anadromous and can migrate long distances up rivers to spawn Allowing fish and other migratory animals to travel the rivers can help maintain healthy fish populations. Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another. Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ...

  8. Atlantic saury - Wikipedia

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    The fish are gregarious, feeding on zooplankton and fish larvae, and are hunted by tuna, marlin, bluefish and cod. It is a migratory fish, moving inshore during the summer and back out into deep water later in the year. Spawning takes place near the surface in the open sea. The eggs have filaments attached and are pelagic. The juveniles inhabit ...

  9. Jullien's golden carp - Wikipedia

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    In the Zhujiang River, the numbers of many migratory fish, such as many major carp species, have fallen. This shows what could happen to migratory fish such as the Jullien's golden carp. Another fact that relates the Jullien's carp to the carp species affected by dams in the Zhujiang River is the fact that they are both carps.