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  2. 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]

  3. 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]

  4. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes - Wikipedia

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    Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.

  5. 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]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Scaphognathops bandanensis - Wikipedia

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    This species is a seasonal migratory fish along the Mekong river and its tributaries from Laos. The migration season begins in January and ends in late April to May each year, along with other species in the group of botiid loach ( Botiidae ) and mud carp ( Henicorhynchus ).

  8. Goldband fusilier - Wikipedia

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    Goldband fusiliers are a non-migratory fish, found during the day moving in schools. At night they shelter within the reef. [8] The schools forage for zooplankton in midwater. It is an oviparous species which lays large numbers of small, pelagic eggs. [2]

  9. 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.