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Silver Carp or Asian Carp available for Export

Silver Carp

Common names: Silver Carp, Asian Carp

Scientific name: Hypophthalmichthys Molitrix

Sizes:  Silver carp is available in fully dressed, fillets, steak cuts, horseshoe cuts, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

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Bighead Carp available for Export

Bighead Carp

Common names: big head, silver big head, black big head, bighead carp, noble fish, speckled armor, lake fish, tongsan, Chinese fish

Scientific name: Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, hypophthalmichthys molitrix

Sizes: Deep bodied fish with tiny scales and gray to black blotches on body, which gives them a speckled appearance. Bighead can reach 60 pounds or more. A 4-year-old fish may weigh up to 20 – 25 pounds. The primary market size is for 6 to 12-pound fish.

Features and benefits: The many bones are what have kept bighead carp out of the U.S. fresh fish markets, except those frequented by Asian shoppers. Worldwide, this Chinese delicacy is the most eaten fish, and it’s considered the Cadillac of fish in Asian countries. The product feature is firm, clean, and slightly translucent with metallic sheens like that of whitefish and trout. Product taste is not fishy, similar to Pollock Will readily absorb spices and marinades. The large head is desirably prepared in soup.

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Common Carp available for Export

Common Carp

Common names: German carp, European carp, scaled carp, leather carp, mirror carp, bigmouth bass, king carp, Israeli carp.

Scientific name: Cyprinus carpio

Sizes: common carp is available in fully dressed, fillets, steak cuts, horseshoe cuts, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more! 9 inches to 3 foot long and weights of 2 to 30 pounds(1 to 14 kgs).

Features and benefits: The fish has a heritage in native Europe and Asia as the menu for royalty as a delicacy food. As the cost of protein-based foods escalates, utilization of over-abundant and inexpensive fishes as substitutes will be found. Carp are relatively easy to acquire and are inexpensive. Carp has the preeminent advantage over such fish as the black bass, trout, grayling, and others in that it is a vegetable feeder. Carp when processed, can taste a good deal better than some so-called game species. Carp can be baked, pickled, smoked, steamed, fried, prepared as gefilte fish, or put into chowders or soups. It can be ground and stuffed into sausages or made into appetizing fish spreads, patties, or pies.

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Bigmouth Buffalo fish available for Export

Bigmouth Buffalo

Common names: common buffalo, gourdhead buffalo, redmouth buffalo fish, stubnose buffalo, mud buffalo, lake buffalo, slough buffalo

Scientific name: Ictiobus – Greek cyprinellus – Latin

Sizes: Commonly up to 30 inches and 15 pounds (6.8 kgs), but 30-40 pound fish are not unusual.

 

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Smallmouth Buffalo fish available for Export

Smallmouth Buffalo

Common names: blue pancake, brown buffalo, suckermouth buffalo, rooter, razorback, quillback buffalo, carp, humped-back buffalo, liner, touchback

Scientific name: Ictiobus – Greek bubalus – Greek

Sizes: Smallest of the buffalo fish, but can grow up to 15 pounds. It is usually considered superior in flavor to the other species.

 

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Quillback fish available for Export (1)

Quillback

Common names: carpsucker, American carp, silver carp, eastern carpsucker, plains, highfin carp sucker, shad, white carp, white buffalo

Scientific name: carpiodes velifer rafinesque (Latin), cyprinus (Greek)

Sizes: Most adult quillbacks fall into the 12 to 15-inch class and weigh 3 pounds or so.

 

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Freshwater Drum fish available for Export

Freshwater Drum

Common names: white perch, sheepshead, gaspergou, goo, croaker, thunderpumper, crocus, silver bass, gray perch, lake drum, jewel-head, grunt, bubbler, grinder, river drum

Scientific name: morone Americana, aplodinotus, grunniens

Sizes: Commonly reaching 1/2 pound and occasionally as large as 8 pounds.

 

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Grass Carp fish available for Export

Grass Carp

Common names: grass carp, white amur

Scientific name: Ctenopharyngodon idella

Sizes: Grass Carp is available in fully dressed, fillets, steak cuts, horseshoe cuts, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Paddlefish available for Export

Paddlefish

Common names: Paddlefish, Mississippi Paddlefish

Scientific name: Polydon spathula

Sizes: Paddlefish is available in fully dressed, fillets, steak cuts, horseshoe cuts, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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American Eel

American Eel

Common names: American Eel

Scientific name: anguilla rostrate

Sizes: American Eel is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Longnose Gar fish available for Export

Longnose Gar

Common names: Longnose gar

Scientific name: lepisosteus osseus

Sizes: Longnose garl is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Bowfin fish available for Export

Bowfin fish

Common names: bowfin, dogfish

Scientific name: amia calua linnaeus

Sizes: bowfin fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Northern Pike fish available for Export

Northern Pike

Common names: northern pike, jax

Scientific name: dorosoma cepedianum

Sizes: esox lucius linnaeus fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Northern Pike fish available for Export

Northern Pike

Common names: northern pike, jax

Scientific name: dorosoma cepedianum

Sizes: esox lucius linnaeus fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Black Bullhead fish for sale

Black Bullhead

Common names: black bullhead, brown bullhead, yellow bullhead

Scientific name: ictalurus natalis

Sizes: Black Bullhead fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Channel Catfish

Channel Catfish

Common names: channel catfish

Scientific name: ictalurus punctatus

Sizes: channel catfish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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White Bass fish for sale

White Bass

Common names: white bass

Scientific name: morone chrysops

Sizes: white bass fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

 

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Striped Bass fish for sale

Striped Bass

Common names: striped bass

Scientific name: morone saxatilis

Sizes: striped bass fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

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Sun Perch fish for sale

Sun Perch

Common names: bluegill sunfish, sunny, bream, rock bass, sun perch

Scientific name: lepomis macrochirus rafinesque

Sizes: Sun Perch fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

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White Crappie fish for sale

White Crappie

Common names: white crappie

Scientific name: pomaxis annularis rafinesque

Sizes: white crappie fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

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Black Crappie fish for sale

Black Crappie

Common names: black crappie, specs, calico bass, spots

Scientific name: pomoxis nigromaculatus

Sizes: Black crappie fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

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Walleye

Walleye

Common names: walleye, yellow pike, pickeral, dory, pike-perch, glass eye

Scientific name: stizostedion vitreum

Sizes: walleye fish is available in fully dressed, fillets, kitchen-ready cuts, minced, and more!

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