Fishing
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An esteemed food and sport fish in Europe, it's unclear how the tench will affect Connecticut's freshwater ecosystems.
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Cutlip minnows are known to sometimes knock out and eat the eyes of other fishes.
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Minnows are an extremely diverse family with abundant representatives over most of the world. Learn about all the minnows who call Connecticut home!
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Learn about the shortnose sturgeon, a state and federally endangered species that call the CT River home.
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Native to China and Siberia, this gigantic freshwater fish has been widely stocked for weed control.
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True to their names, sticklebacks have very sharp spines, which can be locked in an upright position, causing these little fish to be very unpalatable for most predators.
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Perches are distributed throughout temperate fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere. However, all of the many species of diminutive darters are native only to North America.
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Freshwater populations exist as far south as Massachusetts, but none are known in Connecticut.
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The northern pike is Connecticut’s largest strictly freshwater gamefish.
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In Connecticut, the redbreast sunfish typically outnumbers other sunfish species only in river environments.
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Due to their hard-fighting abilities, smallmouths are considered by many to be superior gamefish to largemouths.
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Hybrids are more common in unfished or lightly fished waters, most likely because they are easier to catch than the parent species and are thus removed more quickly from heavily fished waters.
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Also called “calico bass,” crappie grow quickly and are a popular food and sport fish.
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The most popular gamefish in the country, the largemouth bass is also the principal predator in most of our state’s lakes and ponds and thus plays a key role in the health of aquatic ecosystems.
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Rarity and difficulty with identification cause the blackspotted stickleback’s whereabouts in Connecticut to be unclear.