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  Paddlefish - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
The snout may be a third of the length of the body; it is equipped with sense organs that assist the fish in finding its prey of small crustaceans, which it strains out with gill rakers (see gill).
Paddlefishes are primitive; unlike most modern fishes, they have skins with reduced scales, almost wholly cartilaginous skeletons, and upturned tail fins.
Paddlefishes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Acipenseriformes, family Polyodontidae.
messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/paddlefi   (202 words)

  
 Sturgeon Official Home Page and Web Site of Sturgeon
The green sturgeon is a smaller Pacific variety, and the common sturgeon is found in coastal waters and rivers of Europe and E North America.
Other American species are the rock, or lake, sturgeon (A. fulvescens) of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi valley and the shovel-nosed sturgeon, or hackleback (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus; 3 ft/91 cm), also of the Mississippi valley.
Smoked sturgeon is considered a delicacy in many areas, and sturgeon eggs are the source of the better grades of caviar, sometimes in combination with eggs of the paddlefish, a close relative.
www.sturgeon.ws   (434 words)

  
 Cheese, Specialty Food, Gourmet Gift Baskets, Cheese Gifts: igourmet
The spoonbill, also called the paddlefish, is a peculiar prehistoric fish that thrives in the waters of the Mississippi.
It is a member of the sturgeon family, so its caviar is like that produced by the more famous Caspian Sea sturgeon, albeit at a much more affordable price.
Paddlefish Sturgeon is steel grey with a small bead.
www.igourmet.com /shoppe.asp?cat=3&subcat=Caviar   (1855 words)

  
 Mark Spitzer--Gitting Myself a Garfish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
Decades later, I moved to Louisiana, the garfish capital of the world, where people still fish and bowhunt gar, and eat them—that is, if they don't despise them for belonging to that scavenger class of ichthyological undesirables known as trashfish (the enemies of gamefish).
Last time I took him fishing, he hooked an endangered paddlefish and conked it on the head with a hammer.
We ate paddlefish for days, which of course is illegal.
www.clackamas.edu /clr/works/spitzer_garfish.htm   (5666 words)

  
 NANFA's Annual Meetings
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2000 - Jackson, Mississippi, hosted by Martin Moore
A final meeting report written by Christopher Scharpf
www.nanfa.org /convention.shtml   (353 words)

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