Goldeye
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| Hiodon alosoides (Rafinesque, 1819) |
The goldeye, Hiodon alosoides Rafinesque 1819 is a species of fish in the mooneye family (Hiodontidae), widespread across North America. It is notable for a conspicuous golden iris in the eyes. It prefers turbid slower-moving waters of lakes and rivers, where it feeds on insects, crustaceans, fish, frogs, shrews, and mice. The fish averages less than 1 lb (450 g) or 12 in (30 cm) in length, but can be found up to 2 lbs (900 g) or 16 in (41 cm) in some lakes.[1] It has been reported up to 52 cm in length.
The goldeye is considered a good fly-fishing fish, but not popular with most anglers because of its small size.
The fresh flesh of goldeye is soft and unappealing, but its commercial viability was realized by Robert Firth, who immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba from Hull, England in 1886. Firth developed the now-standard method of dyeing the fish red and hot-smoking it whole.[2] It became a fashionable gourmet dish, with Woodrow Wilson and the Prince of Wales counted amongst its fans, until stocks became endangered in the 1930s.[3] A small amount of the harvest is shipped to the United States, but most is consumed in Canada.[4] Although Lake Winnipeg was once the main commercial source, it now comes from elsewhere, especially in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and the culinary name Winnipeg goldeye has come to be associated with the city where it is processed.
The fish is the namesake of Winnipeg's minor league baseball team, the Winnipeg Goldeyes.
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[edit] References
- McClane, A.J. (1974), “Goldeye”, in McClane, A.J., McClane's New Standard Fishing Encyclopedia and International Angling Guide, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ISBN 0-03-060325-0
- Murray, L. “Goldeye” in the Canadian Encyclopedia
- Goldeye in Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Underwater World
- Hiodon alosoides (TSN 161905). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 24 January 2006.
- "Hiodon alosoides". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. August 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
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