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Learn about the characteristics and senses of commercially valuable bony fish. Discover the different species found in the epipelagic zone and the demersal fish that inhabit the seafloor.

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  1. Table of Contents Title: 17.5 Fish; Commercial Species of Bony Fish Page #: 102 Date: 5/1/2013

  2. Objective Students will be able to describe characteristics of commercially valuable bony fish. Students will be able to identify what senses fish may use to detect certain stimuli.

  3. Word of the Day Commercial: Having profit as a chief aim.

  4. 17.5 Commercial Species of Bony Fish Commercial species of bony fish Pg. 433 • Epipelagic Zone: Area of the ocean between the surface and a depth of 200 m (660 ft.) • Most commercially valuable fish are found here. • Features: • Streamlined • Active • Predatory • Fast • Travel long distances

  5. 17.5 Commercial Species of Bony Fish Commercial species of bony fish Pg. 433 • Feed on plankton. • Schools develop in areas of high productivity (lots of plankton.) • Examples: • Sardine • Anchovy • Menahaden • Herring

  6. Sardine Anchovy

  7. Manahaden Herring

  8. 17.5 Commercial Species of Bony Fish Commercial species of bony fish Pg. 433 • Other valuable fish: • Mackerel • Pompano • Swordfish • Tuna • These fish are caught out of sigh of land.

  9. Mackerel Pompano

  10. Swordfish Yellow Fin Tuna

  11. 17.5 Commercial Species of Bony Fish Commercial species of bony fish Pg. 433 • Demersal Fish: Bottom fish. • Slower than other fish. • Examples: • Flounder • Halibut • Turbot • Sole • Rockfish: Hide in rocks and reefs along seafloor. • Examples: • Perch • Snapper

  12. Flounder Turbot

  13. Perch

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