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Chain Pickerel (Esox niger)
Other Names Pike, Jackfish Description Esox and niger are both Latin words. Esox means "pike", and niger means "dark", or "black.
Chain Pickerel:
Appearance:
Chain pickerel are deep olive-green on the back, shading to a creamy yellow on the belly, with the back and anal fin about the same size and located far back on an elongated body.
Chain Pickerel (Esox niger)
This fish, a member of the pike family, is also known as pickerel eastern pickerel, mud pickerel grass pickerel, lake pickerel, reticulated pickerel, pond pickerel, federation pickerel pike, green pike, duck-billed pike, ...
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Only large native game fish in the Pine Barrens. Adults are 15-18" long and weigh approximately 1 1/2 pounds.
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Some food species of eagles include bullhead fish (Ictalurus spp.), alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), chain pickerel (Esox niger), sucker (Catostomus spp.), salmon (Oncorhyncus spp.), white perch (Morone americana), ...
There are five recognised species of this large predatory fish which are the American pickerels, the Northern Pike, the Muskellunge, the Chain Pickerel and the Amur pike.
 See also: Pickerel, Bass, Perch, Diver, Yellow Perch
  
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