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5 unusual facts about freshwater whitefish


Fish finger

Fish fingers, known as fish sticks in North America and by translations of that name in most other languages, are a processed food made using a whitefish, such as cod, haddock or pollock, which has been battered or breaded.

Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge

Fish species inhabiting the river and its related lakes and streams include sheefish, burbot, whitefish, sucker, king and chum salmon, northern pike and arctic grayling.

Pilot crater

Lake trout, northern pike, whitefish, and pickerel are plentiful, supporting a summer market for recreational fishing.

Samuel Bronfman

Yechiel and his sons then started making a good living selling firewood and began a trade in frozen whitefish to earn a winter income.

Summer Island

During the 19th century, Summer Harbor was a fishing station for the harvesting of lake trout and whitefish, and also served as a place to live for a small corps of loggers that harvested the island's timber.


Lake Timiskaming

There are 30 species of fish in Lake Timiskaming, the best known are northern pike, sturgeon, lake trout, walleye, smallmouth bass, bullhead, carp, burbot, perch and whitefish.

Powan

The powan (Coregonus clupeoides) is a kind of freshwater whitefish endemic to two lochs in Scotland, Loch Lomond and Loch Eck.

Richmond Gulf

The many rivers flowing into Richmond Gulf make its water brackish but a healthy habitat for brook trout and whitefish, beluga and seal.

Wu Lihong

It nurtured a bounty of the “three whites,” white shrimp, whitebait and whitefish, and a freshwater crustacean delicacy called the hairy crab.


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