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These fish are found in the Southern Hemisphere. Toothfish are marketed in the United States as Chilean sea bass (or Chilean seabass ) or less frequently as white cod. [ 3 ] " Chilean sea bass" is a marketing name coined in 1977 by Lee Lantz, a fish wholesaler who wanted a more attractive name for selling the Patagonian toothfish to Americans.
Archosargus probatocephalus, the sheepshead, sheepshead seabream or convict fish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. This species is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. The sheepshead is an important species to recreational and commercial fisheries.
She was joined by another lungfish, named after Herb Caen, in 1952 [7] [8] or 1958. [2] She was given the name Methuselah by Steinhart Aquarium director John McCosker in 1988 after spending 50 years at the aquarium. [9] Due to damage incurred in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the original Steinhart Aquarium was torn down in 2005.
After a 20- to 25-minute fight the anglers looked down and saw the shiny African pompano they wanted below. Behind it was another shark looking to take advantage of the tired fish. “There was a ...
The eye-catching fish is not the only animal named for Tolkien’s Dark Lord. A genus of butterflies was found in May 2023 with spots that looked like eyes on its wings, reminding researchers of ...
The skull cup from Gough's Cave. A skull cup is a cup or eating bowl made from an inverted human calvaria that has been cut away from the rest of the skull.The use of a human skull as a drinking cup in ritual use or as a trophy is reported in numerous sources throughout history and among various peoples, and among Western cultures is most often associated with the historically nomadic cultures ...
Trachinotus goodei, the palometa, is an ocean-going game fish of the family Carangidae. Other common names include banner pompano, camade fish, cobbler, gafftopsail, great pompano, joefish, longfin pompano, old wife, sand mackerel, streamers jack, wireback. [2] [1] This fish is native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Bermuda ...
Hypomesus nipponensis (Japanese smelt, in Japanese: wakasagi [2]) is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia. [1]