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Seafood Products Research Center Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia |
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Thumbnail | Seafood List (Common, Genus/Species, Market) | Occurence (AFS) | Occurence (FAO) |
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Silver Pomfret(*) Pampus(*) argenteus(*) Butterfish |
Present in the "Gulf" and along the coasts of India. Not found in African waters nor around offshore islands. Eastward it extends to Japan, but not to New Guinea or Australia. | |
Spot Pangasius(*) | Spot Pangasius(*) Pangasius(*) larnaudi(*) Sheathfish |
Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam | |
California Halibut | California Halibut Paralichthys californicus Halibut (California Halibut) |
P | |
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Black Pomfret Parastromateus niger Pompano |
Indo-w. Pacific o. | |
Yellow Perch | Yellow Perch Perca flavescens Perch, Lake (Yellow) |
F | |
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Starry Flounder Platichthys stellatus Flounder |
F-P | |
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Blackback Flounder Pleuronectes americanus Flounder (Sole) |
A | |
Yellowfin Sole | Yellowfin Sole Pleuronectes asper Sole (Flounder) |
P | |
Rock Sole | Rock Sole Pleuronectes bilineatus Sole (Flounder) |
P | |
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English Sole Pleuronectes vetulus Sole |
P | |
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Black Drum Pogonias cromis Drum |
A | |
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Pollock Pollachius virens Pollock |
A | Barents Sea and Spitzbergen to Bay of Biscay, around Iceland, southwestern Greenland, and in the western Atlantic from Hudson Strait to N. Carolina, although rare at the extremes of the range. |
Wreckfish | Wreckfish Polyprion americanus Bass, Sea |
A | |
Groper | Groper Polyprion oxygeneios Bass, Sea |
New Zealand, South Australia | |
Blue Shark | Blue Shark Prionace glauca Shark |
A-P | Western Atlantic: Newfoundland to Argentina. Centrall Atlantic. Eastern Atlantic: Norway to S. Africa, Mediterranean. Indo-West Pacific: S. Africa and southern Arabian Sea to Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Central Pacific. Eastern Pacific: Gulf of Alaska to Chile. |
Smooth Oreo Dory | Smooth Oreo Dory Pseudocyttus maculatus Oreo Dory |
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Yellow Croaker Pseudosciaena manchurica Croaker (Yellowfish) |
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Vermillion Snapper | Vermillion Snapper Rhomboplites aurorubens Snapper |
A | Tropical western Atlantic Ocean extending north to N. Carolina and south to about Rio de Janeiro. particularly abundant off eastern Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and in the Gulf of Campeche. |
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Spotfin Croaker Roncador stearnsi Croaker or Corvina |
P | |
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Oilfish(*) Ruvettus(*) pretiosus(*) Oilfish(*) |
A-P | Widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters of the world. |