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Photographer: (Photos) M.Gautreau
Caption: Sidebar: Native Fish of the Petitcodiac /
Poissons indigènes de la riviére Petitcodiac
Additional Description: Before the construction of the causeway, the yearly run of pre-spawning salmon could range between 2,000 and 10,000, whereas shad runs were estimated to be between 50,000 and 75,000.
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Avant la construction du pont-chaussée, entre 2000 et 10 000 saumons remontaient annuellement avant la fraie et on estime que les montaisons d'alose variaient entre 50 000 et 75 000.
• American eel / Anguille d'amérique
Anguilla rostrate (up to / Jusqu'à 100 cm)
• Striped bass / Bar rayé
Morone saxatilis (up to / Jusqu'à 100 cm)
• Atlantic salmon / Saumon de l'Atlantique
Salmo salar (up to / Jusqu'à 85 cm)
• American shad / Alose savoureuse
Alosa sapidissima (40 to / à 60 cm)
• Brook trout / Omble de fontaine
Salvelinus fontinalis (10 to / à 20 cm)
• Blueback herring / Alose d'été
Alosa aestivalis (25 cm)
• Atlantic sturgeon / Esturgeon noir
Acipenser oxyrinchus (200-300 cm)
• Alewife / Gaspareau
Alosa pseudoharengus (30 cm)
• Atlantic tomcod/ Poulamon atlantique
Microgadus tomcod (15-25 cm)
• White perch / Baret
Morone Americana (up to / Jusqu'à 50 cm)
• Sea lamprey / Lamproie marine
Petromyzon marinus (50-100 cm)
• Rainbow smelt / Éperlan arc-en-ciel
Osmerus mordax (12-15 cm)
• White sucker / Meunier noir
Catostomus commersoni (50 cm)
Submitted: June 7, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p525013
File Size: 2.476 Megabytes

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