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Pictures of Fish Electric Catfish Pictures and Electric Catfish Fishes Kind

Electric Catfish have the ability to produce electric shock of up to 350 volts. They can generate the electric shock using electro plaques of their electric organ. They can be found in the tropical Africa and along the Nile River. Nile fish has been well known in the popular ancient Egyptian cultures, where it has been depicted in mural paintings and other artworks. Electric catfish generally use their electric organ to ward off their predators; however, their electric shock is not known to be fatal to human beings.

Electric catfish is usually a nocturnal fish. They feed mainly on other fish by incapacitating their prey with electric discharges. Although electro-receptive system is widely present in the catfishes but electric catfishes a very well-developed electric organ, which is derived from anterior body musculature and it lines the body cavity. Electric catfishes do not have dorsal fins or fin spines. Instead, they have three pairs of barbels. They can grow up to a size of 100 cm long and a weight of 20 kg.

Pictures of Fish Electric Catfish Pictures and Electric Catfish Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Catfish Pictures and Electric Catfish Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Catfish Pictures and Electric Catfish Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Catfish Pictures and Electric Catfish Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Catfish Pictures and Electric Catfish Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Electric Catfish Pictures and Electric Catfish Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Crocodile Shark Fishes Pictures and Crocodile Shark Fishes Kind

Crocodile shark is a species of shark that are found in warm and tropical waters in the open ocean. They can be found worldwide in Guinea, Angola, South Africa, Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, Japan, Taiwan, Korea,  Hawaiian islands, Panama and Costa Rica in eastern Pacific. They are not yet known in Western Atlantic.

Crocodile Shark has a spindle shaped body with a short head and moderately long conical snout. They have large eyes. Their pectoral fins are small, broad and rounded while pelvic fins are relatively larger. Crocodile sharks can grow to a maximum length of 1.1 meters and a weight of 6 kg. It is a deep water or nocturnal hunter, often relying on its large eyes. They often move to surface at night to feed and descend back to deeper waters during day time to avoid predators. They feed on moderate to large fish, squids and shrimps. Its meat is generally not suitable as food item; however, its oily liver finds value in other applications.

Pictures of Fish Crocodile Shark Fishes Pictures and Crocodile Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Crocodile Shark Fishes Pictures and Crocodile Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Crocodile Shark Fishes Pictures and Crocodile Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Crocodile Shark Fishes Pictures and Crocodile Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Crocodile Shark Fishes Pictures and Crocodile Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Cisco is a salmonid (family of ray-finned fish) fish. They differ from other members of the genus by having upper and lower jaws of approximately equal length. Five endemic species of Laurentian Great Lakes are thought to be of very recent evolution. Cisco species have recently been subjected to lots of research that is being carried out to determine the relationships among the species that have evolved recently.

Ciscoes are extensively explored in commercial fisheries especially in the Laurentian Great Lakes, where deep water forms are considered as the basis of chub fishery. Chub fishery was exclusively based on the various species of Ciscoes. The fishery continues even when the stocks of Ciscoes are falling and other species are spreading through the system. At many places, Cisco species have declined in great numbers. Some of the breeders believe that Ciscoes represent  an incipient species flock. Lots of debates have taken place to  ascertain which were the true species and which were not, particularly due to the facts that some of the species have become extinct.

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Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cisco Fishes Pictures and Cisco Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Eulachon Pictures and Eulachon Fishes Kind

Eulachon is a small anadromous ocean fish native along the Pacific Coast of North America from Northern California to Alaska. Eulachon is an important part of the diet of many ocean and shore predators. Besides, it is also used as a prominent source of food item for many people living near its spawning streams. Eulachons are also known by other names such as hooligan, ooligan or candlefish. Candlefish is the name given by early explorers of eulachons who often dried fatty spawning fish and strung on a wick, to be burned as a candle.

Eulachons often spend most of their adult lives in the ocean and return to their native freshwater streams and rivers to spawn. Due to this typical nature, one stream may see regular large runs of eulachons while a neighboring stream may have very few or none. In may happen that a river that  sees large runs of eulachons every year, may all of a sudden witness a year with no returns of eulachons. Eulachon feed mainly on planktons, fish eggs, insect larvae and small crustaceans. Eulachon is an important part of the diet and a valuable trade item for several communities along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska.

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Pictures of Fish Eulachon Pictures and Eulachon Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Eulachon Pictures and Eulachon Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Eulachon Pictures and Eulachon Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Eulachon Pictures and Eulachon Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cherry Salmon Fishes Pictures and Cherry Salmon Fishes Kind

Cherry Salmon or Japanese Salmon is a salmon fish of the western Pacific Ocean where it can be found all across Korea, Japan, Kuril  and other Islands. Cherry salmon prefers temperate climate and a depth of 0-200 meters. In Taiwan, a landlocked subspecies known as Taiwanese Salmon are found abundantly, where it has been declared as critically endangered species.

Adult cherry salmons have a dark back with bright red (with a tinge of crimson red) colored stripes on the sides of the body right up to the abdomen. That is why the name cherry salmon has been given to this species.  Adults weigh around 2.5 kg and measure 50 cm in length. Maximum size recorded is 9kg and 71 cm. While in the sea, cherry salmons feed extensively on crustaceans. Like other salmons, cherry salmons are also highly commercial species  for use as game fish, in aquaculture and as frozen foods. People love to eat cherry salmons broiled or baked.

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Pictures of Fish Cherry Salmon Fishes Pictures and Cherry Salmon Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cherry Salmon Fishes Pictures and Cherry Salmon Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cherry Salmon Fishes Pictures and Cherry Salmon Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Bat Ray is an eagle ray fish that can be found in muddy or sandy sloughs, estuaries, bays, kelp beds and rocky-bottomed shoreline in the eastern Pacific Ocean between the Oregon coast and the Gulf of California. Largest specimens of bat ray can grow up to 90 kg with a wingspan of 1.8 meters. Bat rays can live in environment with large range of salinities. Currently, bat rays are fished commercially in Mexico but not in the United States.

Bat rays feed on mollusks, crustaceans and small fish on the seabed. They use their wing-like pectoral fins to move sand and expose prey animals. They can dig trenches up to 20 cm deep to expose buried prey. Like other stingrays, bat rays have a venomous spine in its tail near the base, which is not considered dangerous to human beings except when attacked or frightened. Bat rays are very popular in marine parks where the visitors are often allowed to touch or stroke ray, usually on the wing.
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Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Bat Ray Fishes Pictures and Bat Ray Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Arowana is a fresh water bony fish. Arowana family of fish has a bony head and elongate body that is covered by large and heavy scales with a mosaic pattern of canals. Dorsal and the anal fins have soft rays and are long. Pectoral and ventral fins are small. Arowana is also sometimes known as bonytongues, as they have a toothed bone on the floor of the mouth – tongue, equipped with teeth that bite against teeth on the roof of the mouth.

Arowana can obtain oxygen from air by sucking into the swim bladder that is lined with capillaries like lung tissues. It is a carnivorous fish, often being specialized surface feeder. It is an excellent jumper, with some of the species being capable of jumping up to 6 feet (2 meters) from the water surface to catch insects and birds from overhanging branches of trees in South America. Due to the excellent jumping capabilities, they have been nicknamed as ‘water monkeys’. It has often been rumored that Arowana have captured prey as large as low flying bats and small birds.

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Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Arowana Fishes Pictures and Arowana Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Carp is a common name for various fresh water fish . Carp is a very large group of fish originally from Eurasia and Southeast Asia. Carp has long been used as an important food fish for humans. Carp is a very popular ornamental fish in Aquarium and ponds (goldfishes being one of the most popular examples of Carps). As a result, carps have been introduced to various regions.

The most notable and popular ornamental carp is coarse fish that are difficult to hook. In USA, carp is classified as a rough fish. Many of the states have also started viewing the carps as angling fish instead of maligned pest. Carps are considered as the queen of rivers and a stately and subtle fish. In England, carps have been naturalized though earlier the carps were not bred in England. In Australia, scientific studies have proved that carps are the cause of permanent turbidity and loss of submerged vegetation system, with severe consequences for river ecosystems water quality and native fish species.

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Carp Fishes Pictures and Carp Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Seahorse is a genus of fish that also include pipefish and leafy sea dragons. About 32 species of seahorse fishes are found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world. Seahorses prefer to live in sheltered areas such as grass beds, coral reefs or mangroves. Sizes of seahorse fish ranges from very small (dwarf seahorse), about an inch long to those much larger sized seahorses measuring about one-foot long.

Seahorses are bony fish but do not have any scales. They have a thin skin stretched over a series of bony plates arranged in rings throughout its body. Seahorses swim upright unlike their close relative pipefish, which swim horizontally. They are poor swimmers and thus can be mostly found resting at seabeds or coral reefs. Seahorses have long snouts, which makes it possible for them to suck up food. The eyes can move independently of each other much like a chameleon. They feed on small fish, shrimps and plankton (drifting organisms like animals, plants or bacteria). Seahorses are extensively used in Chinese medicines and herbology.

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Seahorse Fishes Pictures and Seahorse Shark Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cod Fishes Pictures and Cod Fishes Kind

Cod fish is a generic name for a variety of other fishes. It is a popular food fish with mild flavor, low fat content and white flesh. Cod fishes are well for cod liver oil that is rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin D and other fatty acids. Atlantic cod fishes can change colors at certain water depths, two color phases being gray-green and reddish brown. When cooked, cods become moist, flaky and white in color. There are several species of cods commonly called as cods and include Arctic Cod, East Siberian Cod, Rock Cod, Saffron Cod, Small-Headed Cod and Polar Cod, among others.

The average weight of Atlantic cods is around 5-11 kg. However, specimens weighing up to 100 kg have also been found. Cods feed on mollusks, crabs, starfish, sand eels, lobsters, mackerel, worms, squids and other small fishes. Younger cods eat the same food but avoid larger prey. Large female cod can lay up to five million eggs although very few survive. They have a typical shape with three rounded dorsal and two anal fins.

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Pictures of Fish Cod Fishes Pictures and Cod Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cod Fishes Pictures and Cod Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cod Fishes Pictures and Cod Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cod Fishes Pictures and Cod Fishes Kind

Pictures of Fish Cod Fishes Pictures and Cod Fishes Kind