Use caution with this data as some extreme values can be erroneous due to unsuspected errors in synop reports. All data should be verified. Note that the values we listed here are from international released synop reports, and for certain there will be other extreme values not in this list.
A medium-sized, greenish fish, the bowfin can be found in clear lakes and slow streams through much of Minnesota.Bowfin survive in murky, oxygen-depleted water by rising to the surface and gulping air into their air bladders.his primitive fish was around when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It is also known as a dogfish. The bowfin is a tubular, olive-green fish with a scaleless head and two barbels on its face. Its dorsal fin stretches most of the length of its back.
Compared to its cousins, the sailfish is relatively abundant. It is found world-wide in tropical and temperate seas. Like the other billfish, commercial mortality is the major risk to the health of the species and it is considered a food fish over most of its range.That attitude is changing.he high dorsal fin, the sail, makes the sailfish the easiest of the billfish to identify. Well, the swordfish is also rather distinct but it is in an entirely different family than the Istiophoridae family which includes the marlins, spearfish, and sailfish.