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The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) all-tackle world record chain pickerel is a 4.25 kg (9.4 lb) fish, caught in Homerville, Georgia on February 17, 1961 by angler Baxley McQuaig, Jr., while the IGFA all-tackle length world record is 65 centimetres (26 in) long, caught in Henderson Harbor, Lake Ontario, New York on November 4, 2019 ...
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]
The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish that includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, trevallies, and scads. It is the largest of the six families included within the order Carangiformes. Some authorities classify it as the only family within that order but molecular and anatomical studies indicate that there is a close ...
The crevalle jack is a powerful, predatory fish, with extensive studies showing the species consumes a variety of small fish, with invertebrates such as prawns, shrimps, crabs, molluscs and cephalopods also of minor importance. Dietary shifts with both age, location and season have been demonstrated, which led some researchers to postulate the ...
Other names occasionally used include lowly trevally, barrier trevally, yellowfin jack (not to be confused with Hemicaranx leucurus), Forsskål's Indo-Pacific jack fish and Goyan fish. [6] In Hawaii, the species is almost exclusively referred to as ulua, often in conjunction with the prefixes black, white, or giant. [11]
The chief varieties of saltwater fish include: Kingfish; Jack; Mackerel; Whiting; Bonito; Tuna; Barracuda; Estuarine. ... Freshwater Fish that spend the majority of ...
Golden trevally often follow large fish such as this giant grouper. The golden trevally is found either as a solitary individual or in small schools as an adult. [7] Juveniles tend to form larger schools which tend to congregate and follow ( or "pilot") larger fish such as groupers, sharks, [15] and even jellyfish. [20]
The bigeye trevally is commonly found in large slow moving schools during the day, becoming active at night when it feeds, taking a variety of fish, crustaceans, cephalopods and other invertebrates. The fish is known to move from a more crustacean dominated diet as a juvenile to a nearly completely fish dominated diet as an adult.