Fish

Garibaldi

The Garibaldi, known historically as the Catalina goldfish and marine goldfish and now commonly as the Garibaldi damselfish, is a species of bright orange fish in the damselfish family. It occurs in the subtropical northeastern part of the Pacific Ocean.

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Gag

The gag grouper, also known as velvet rockfish, the gag, or charcoal belly, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It comes from warmer parts of the West Atlantic, including the Caribbean.

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Frostfish

The silver scabbardfish, also known as the frostfish or beltfish is a benthopelagic cutlassfish of the family Trichiuridae found throughout the temperate seas of the world. It grows to over 2 metres in length.

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Flyingfishes and halfbeaks

Family Exocoetidae; Flyingfishes (Cypselurus species, and others); Ballyhoo or balao (Hemiramphus species). The balao halfbeak (Hemiramphus balao), occasionally called the balao for short, is an ocean-going species of fish in the family Hemiramphidae. It was first described by French naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1821. They are used as cut bait and for trolling purposes

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Fluke

The summer flounder or fluke is a marine flatfish that is found in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States and Canada. It is especially abundant in waters from North Carolina to Massachusetts.

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Flounders

Families Bothidae and Pleuronectidae. Including:Flounders (Paralichthys species),Liopsetta species,Platichthys species,etc.);Starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus);Summer flounder or fluke (Paralichthys denatus);Yellowtail flounder (limanda ferrugina);Winter flounder, lemon sole or blackback (Pseudopleuronectes americanus);Halibuts (Hippoglossus species);California halibut (Paralichthys Californicus);Bigmouth sole (Hippoglossina stomata);Butter of scalyfin sole (Isopsetta isolepis);”Dover” sole (Microstomus pacificus);”English” sole (Parophrys vetulus);Fantail sole (Xystreurys liolepis);Petrale sole (Eopsetta jordan);Rex sole (Glyptocephalus zichirus);Rock

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Eulachon

The eulachon, or the candlefish, is a small anadromous species of smelt that spawns in some of the major river systems along the Pacific coast of North America from northern California to Alaska.

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Drums and croakers

Family Sciaenidae, Including: Seatrouts and carvinas (Cynoscion species); Weakfish (Cynoscion nebulosus); White seabass (Cynoscion nobillis); Croakers (micropogon species, Bairdiella species, Odontoscion species); Silver perch (Bairdiella chyrsura); White or King croaker (Genyonemus lineatus); Black croaker (cheilottena saturnum); Spotfin croaker (Roncadorstearnsi); Yellowfin croaker(Umbrinaroncador); Drums (Pogonias species, Stellifer species, Umbrina species); Red drum or channel bass (Sciaenops ocallata);

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Dolphin fishes

or mahimahis (Coryphaena species) Not to be confused with the Mammal called Dolphin or Porpoise, which is non kosher. A fish is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with a tough cranium to protect the brain, but lacking limbs with digits. Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common

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Dolly Varden

The Dolly Varden trout is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. Despite the name “trout”, it belongs to the genus Salvelinus (chars), which includes 51 recognized species, the most prominent being the brook, lake and bull trout as well as.

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