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squawfish

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squaw·fish  (skwôfsh)
n. pl. squawfish or squaw·fish·es
Any of several large cyprinid freshwater fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, of western North America.


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In the early 1990s, however, Dexter Lake's large population of northern squawfish (as pikeminnows were then known) was seen as competition for the rainbow trout fishery Lowell officials wanted to see developed in the lake.
Id A second study demonstrated that exposure to gas saturation levels of 120% did not increase vulnerability to squawfish predation.
Bestgen and Bundy (1998) reported increments deposited on sagittae of Colorado squawfish (Ptychocheilus lucius) were difficult to distinguish after fish were 30 days old and thus lapilli were used to age older fish.
 
 
 
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