Whitefish or white fish may refer to:
Fish
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Whitefish (fisheries term)
Whitefish or white fish is a fisheries term for several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly Atlantic cod (''Gadus morhua''), whiting (fish), whiting (''Merluccius bilinearis''), haddock (''Melanogrammus aeglefinus''), Phycidae, hake ...
, referring to species commercially caught in the North Atlantic
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Freshwater whitefish
The freshwater whitefish are fishes of the subfamily Coregoninae, which contains whitefishes (both freshwater and anadromous) and ciscoes, and is one of three subfamilies in the salmon family Salmonidae. Apart from the subfamily Coregoninae, ...
, members of the subfamily Coregoninae in the family Salmonidae, including:
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Atlantic whitefish
The Atlantic whitefish (''Coregonus huntsmani'') is a coregonine fish inhabiting some freshwater lakes within Nova Scotia, Canada. It is known to survive only in the Petite Rivière watershed as landlocked populations. Earlier it was also foun ...
, ''Coregonus huntsmani'' in the genus ''Coregonus''
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Common whitefish
''Coregonus lavaretus'' is a species of freshwater whitefish, in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of its genus ''Coregonus''.
There are widely different concepts about the delimitation of the species ''Coregonus lavaretus'' and abou ...
, ''Coregonus lavaretus'' in the genus ''Coregonus''
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Lake whitefish
The lake whitefish (''Coregonus clupeaformis'') is a species of freshwater whitefish from North America. Lake whitefish are found throughout much of Canada and parts of the northern United States, including all of the Great Lakes. The lake white ...
, ''Coregonus clupeaformis'' in the genus ''Coregonus''
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Mountain whitefish
The mountain whitefish (''Prosopium williamsoni'') is one of the most widely distributed salmonid fish of western North America. It is found from the Mackenzie River drainage in Northwest Territories, Canada through western Canada and the northwe ...
, ''Prosopium williamsoni'', in the genus ''Prosopium''
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Cape whitefish
The Cape whitefish or Berg-Breede River whitefish (''Cheilobarbus capensis'') is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It was formerly placed with the South African redfins in ''Pseudobarbus''. It is tetraploid. Its closest living ...
, ''Pseudobarbus capensis'', a cyprinid
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Beluga sturgeon, ''Huso huso''
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Caspian kutum, also called "White Fish" or "Caspian White Fish"
* The chimaerae species:
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Australian ghost shark
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Ogilby's ghostshark
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tilefish
file:Malacanthus latovittatus.jpg, 250px, Blue blanquillo, ''Malacanthus latovittatus''
Tilefishes are mostly small perciform marine fish comprising the family (biology), family Malacanthidae. They are usually found in sandy areas, especially n ...
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Ocean whitefish (''Caulolatilus princeps'')
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White steenbras
The white steenbras (''Lithognathus lithognathus'') is a species of fish in the family Sparidae endemic to South Africa. Due to overfishing, primarily by seine netting operations in False Bay
False Bay (Afrikaans: ''Valsbaai'') is a body o ...
, (''Lithognathus lithognathus''), a sparid
Places
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Whitefish Bay
Whitefish Bay is a large bay on the eastern end of Lake Superior between Michigan, United States, and Ontario, Canada. It is located between Whitefish Point in Michigan and Whiskey Point along the more rugged, largely wilderness Canadian Shield ...
, a bay in Lake Superior between the United States and Canada
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Whitefish Range, Montana and British Columbia
Canada
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Whitefish, Ontario
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Whitefish Falls, Ontario
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Whitefish Lake First Nation, Ontario
United States
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Whitefish, Montana
Whitefish (Montana Salish, Salish: epɫx̣ʷy̓u, "has whitefish") is a city in Flathead County, Montana, United States. According to the 2020 United States census, there were 7,751 people in the city.
History
Archaeological records indicate th ...
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Whitefish Mountain Resort
Whitefish Mountain Resort is a ski resort on Big Mountain in northwestern Montana. It is west of Glacier National Park in the Flathead National Forest, from the town of Whitefish, west of Columbia Falls, and north of Kalispell.
Histo ...
, a ski resort on Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana
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Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
Whitefish Bay is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 14,954 at the 2020 census. A suburb north of Milwaukee along the shore of Lake Michigan, it is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
History
In th ...
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Whitefish Township, Michigan
Other uses
*"Whitefish", an instrumental by the rock band Yes, first released on the 1985 live album ''
9012Live: The Solos''
See also
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Whitefish Bay (disambiguation)
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Whitefish Lake (disambiguation)
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Whiting
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Whitefish Energy
Whitefish Energy Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Whitefish Energy) is a small holding company based in Whitefish, Montana whose portfolio of companies installs, maintains, and repairs electrical grids. The holding company was founded in 2015 by Andy Techmansk ...
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