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freshwater fish

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Noun1.freshwater fishfreshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
seafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
bream, freshwater bream - flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe
freshwater bass, bass - any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
carp - the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised
buffalofish - large carp-like North American fish
pike - highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
sucker - flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
catfish, mudcat - flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
perch - any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
sunfish - the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
brook trout, speckled trout - a delicious freshwater food fish
lake trout - flesh of large trout of northern lakes
whitefish - flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere

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Wildlife Of North America: A naturalist's Lifelist" by Eugene, Oregon based professional nature photographer and writer Whit Bronaugh is an informatively impressive compendium of all 4,000 species of animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fish, butterflies, dragonflies, and damselflies to be found in the United States and Canada.
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