Fish Info and Picture

Pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera)

2011-05-29T21:58:00.000-07:00

Fishermen and anglers have caught large number of Pigfish on hook and line also in nets in warm temperate waters. It is mainly used as bait for larger predators.

Pigfish in reef

The pigfish has long anal fins, matching the soft dorsal fin in shape and in size. The head is sloped and pointed, the snout almost piglike, and the lips thin. A background color of bluish-gray is marked with brassy spots in indistinct lines that are
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Crappie Fish (Calico Bass)

2011-05-24T22:08:00.000-07:00

Crappie Fish one of the large number of sea bass fish found in the eastern Pacific, Crappie or kelp bass is a popular sport fish in southern California, as a pillar of the boat trip to the party Baja California. Because it is a powerful fighter and an excellent food fish, Crappie highly prized by fishermen. Their popularity and status of non-migratory populations of the algae bar put at risk of over fishing.

Crappie Fish

Remoras or Sharksucker (Naucrates Echeneis)

2011-05-24T00:33:00.000-07:00

Remoras is the members of Echeneidae family , remoras or sharksuckers are thin fish that have flat sucker disck on their head.

Often see remoras sucking sharks and other fish such as marlin, grouper, and the rays, but sometimes bottom boats or other objects. These hitchhikers easy to drive with their hosts, parasitic copepods that feed on hosts can be found in the bodies and chambers Gill.

Remoras

Milkfish (Chanos chanos)

2011-05-24T00:10:00.000-07:00

Milkfish is very important fish for the Indo-Pacific region, where it is widely used for food, but is mostly ignored in North America. However, his appearance has caused fishermen tarponlike and misidentify, and spend much time in vain tried to do it lures and flies.

Milk Fish

Marlin Blue (Makaira nigricans and Makaira mazara)

2011-05-23T23:43:00.000-07:00

The first family member Istiophoridae billfish, blue marlin is a species of big game before anyone else. He has exceptional size and strength is a powerful and aggressive fighter.

He works hard and long, deep sound, and leapt into the air on a screen, seemingly inexhaustible strength. Intensely pursued commercially in many parts of its range, is overfished. The flesh is pale and firm and makes excellent table fare, especially when smoked. In the East, which often served as sashimi or fish sauce. Blue Marlin are rarely consumed in North America, and most are caught by fishermen released after his capture, and many of those released are marked.

Marlin Blue

Guitarfish Atlantic (Rhinobatos lentiginosus)

2011-05-23T23:05:00.000-07:00

Guitarfish Atlantic is Hybrid skate and shark-looking fish belongs to the family Rajiformes Atlantic skate and guitar along with Ray. Guitarfish Atlantic is sometimes encountered by fishermen, but not the target species.

Guitarfish Atlantic inhabits on sandy and weedy bottoms and found near small islands, usually buried in the sand, seagrass, or mud at depths of 1-45 meters.

Guitarfish Atlantic

Goosefish (Lophius americanus)

2011-05-23T22:20:00.000-07:00

The Goosefish was described as the mouth with a tail attached. A family member Lophiidae anglerfish deep sea, this ugly, bottom-dwelling species in temperate waters is not a game fish targeted but it is sometimes caught by anglers bottom of the deep sea. More than two dozen species of anglerfish found worldwide, with the U.S. Fish goose greatest among them.

Goosefish

Crappie Fish Black (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)

2011-05-23T03:52:00.000-07:00

Crappie Fish Black is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae of order Perciformes.

Black Crappie Fish

Bowfin (Amia Calva)

2011-05-23T03:20:00.000-07:00

Traced as a surviving fossil, the bowfin is the only existing member of the Amiidae family, a group of fish that grew in the Cretaceous period more than a hundred million years ago. Of little commercial value because of their poor-tasting flesh, bowfin are excellent fighters and are caught by anglers wherever they are abundant, although mostly unintentionally. When not abundant, they are a rare catch, and many anglers are unfamiliar with them. Although they are sometimes considered pests or nuisances by anglers seeking other quarry, bowfin are helpful in constraining otherwise large, stunted populations of smaller fish.

Bowfin Fish

Alewife (Alosa Pseudoharengus)

2011-05-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

Also named as Herring, Sawbelly, Gray herring, Grayback, in French its named gapareau, gaspereau, in Spanish its named alosa or pinchagua.

A small herring, the alewife is important as forage for gamefish in many inland waters and along the Atlantic coast. It is used commercially in pet food and as fish meal and fertilizer, and it has been a significant factor in the restoration of trout and salmon fisheries in the Great Lakes.

Alewife Fish

Albacore (Thunnusa alalunga)

2011-05-22T18:41:00.000-07:00

A member of the Scombridae family of tuna and mackerel, the albacore is an excellent light-tackle gamefish. It is called true albacore in some places, not to be confused with false albacore or little tunny (see).

Albacore

Polka-dot Batfish

2011-05-22T11:48:00.000-07:00

Batfish, any of about 60 species of fishes of the family Ogcocephalidae (order Lophiiformes), found in warm and temperate seas. Batfishes have broad, flat heads and slim bodies and are covered with hard lumps and spines. Some species have an elongated, upturned snout. Batfishes grow at most about 36 cm (14 inches) long. They are poor swimmers and usually walk on the bottom on thickened, limblike pectoral and pelvic fins. Most live in the deep sea, but some inhabit shallow water.

Polka-dot Batfish

BoxFish

2011-05-22T11:36:00.000-07:00

Boxfish is a family of squared and area group of puffer like fishes and the group boxfish includes cowfish and trunkfish. They all have a squared body. Their bodies are enclosed by bones.

The Polka-dot Boxfish, Yellow Boxfish, or Blue-spotted Boxfish has an almost perfectly shaped cube for a body. It is yellow or cream colored with dark-blue spots. As they grow older the body becomes more elongated and the color can change to different colors, but mainly a yellow-green. The spots turn white with blue rings around them.

BoxFish