Whitefish
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see salmon.
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Salmon - member of the Salmonidae, a family of marine fish that spawn in freshwater, including the salmons, the trouts, and the chars.
Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) are freshwater whitefish of North America; members of the salmon family. They are found throughout much of Canada and parts of the northern United States of Minnesota and Michigan, including the Great Lakes.
Lake Whitefish
Life history information about Whitefish from the University of Minnesota.
Cisco and Lake Whitefish - telling the difference
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Whitefish spawn in the fall, usually in November and December, but these dates can vary. Spawning usually occurs in shallow water at depths of less than 7 or 8 metres (25 feet), often over a hard or stony bottom, but sometimes over sand.
Lake Whitefish Behaviour
No observations regarding Lake Whitefish behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
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Whitefish Can be caught almost any time of the year.
Salt Water Fish ...
Lake Whitefish
They can be found throughout the Northwest Territories in lakes and rivers and in the Mackenzie Delta. A member of the salmon and trout family, whitefish have white flesh with a delicate, sweet flavour. They average 1.
SALMONIFORMES
whitefishes, graylings, salmons, trouts, chars
STOMIIFORMES
bristlemouths, marine hatchetfishes, lightfishes, viperfishes, saly dragonfishes, snaggletoothes, scaleless black dragonfishes, loosejaws, black dragonfishes ...
They eat sand-eels, whitefish and flatfish but not salmon.
They are full of curiosity and will often follow you as you walk along a cliff top and keep an eye on you while floating vertically in the water as the seal in the 3rd photo was doing.
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Ecology and management of Larix forests: a look ahead: Proceedings of an international symposium; 1992 October 5-9; Whitefish, MT. Gen. Tech. Rep. GTR-INT-319. Ogden, UT: U.S.
There are 66 species of salmon, trout, whitefish, and their relatives. Species in this family are found throughout the northern hemisphere and are some of the most important commercial and sport fishes in the world.
Salmon family includes trout, whitefish, chars and graylings - together they form a family of ray-finned fish.
Coregonus lavaretus (Common Whitefish)
Hucho hucho (Huchen)
Salmo carpio
Salmo salar (Atlantic salmon)
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout and Sea Trout)
Salvelinus alpinus (Arctic char)
Thymallus thymallus (Grayling) ...
Baltic ringed seals feed mainly on fish such as herring, smelt, whitefish, sculpin and perch. Crustaceans also form part of their diet and they feed heavily on these species, particularly isopods, during the winter.
Whatever fish species are most common including salmon, eulachon, tomcod, smelt, char, rainbow sole, whitefish, saffron cod and arctic cod, herring, shrimp, mussels and octopus.
Population
Just over 300 animals in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Western Europe accounts for 70-80% of the world cod market, with the UK being Europe's largest importer and consumer. Cod, together with the similar whitefish pollock and hake, accounts for one-third of all seafood imports into the EU.
Tisch, E.L. 1961. Seasonal food habits of the black bear in the Whitefish Range of northwestern Montana. M.S. thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, 108pp.
Vendace (Coregonus albula)
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Bloater (Coregonus hoyi)
Shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus)
Kiyi (Coregonus kiyi)
Ala balik (Salmo platycephalus)
Atlantic whitefish (Coregonus huntsmani) ...
Sunfish (Panfish)
Trout and Salmon (includes early inland trout season)
Trout, Extended Lake Superior Streams
Walleye and Sauger (includes hybrids)
Warmouth (Panfish)
Whitefish
Year Around Fishing Waters ...
 See also: Salmon, Trout, Herring, Grayling, Perch
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