Channel Catfish vs قشر البياض

Ictalurus punctatus مقارنةً بـ Sander lucioperca

Taxonomy & Classification

السمة	Channel Catfish	قشر البياض
الاسم العلمي	Ictalurus punctatus	Sander lucioperca
الرتبة	Siluriformes	Perciformes
الفصيلة	Ictaluridae	Percidae
Conservation Status	Least Concern	Least Concern

Physical Traits

السمة	Channel Catfish	قشر البياض
الطول الأقصى	132,0 cm	130,0 cm
الوزن الأقصى	26,0 kg	20,0 kg
اللون	Blue-gray to olive-gray back with silvery-white sides; scattered small black spots on the flanks in juveniles that fade with age; belly creamy-white; deeply forked tail fin is uniformly grayish.	Greenish-gray to olive body with 8–10 dark olive-brown vertical bars or saddle blotches; flanks finely mottled; belly whitish; first dorsal fin with dark-spotted rays; large glassy eyes adapted for low light.

Habitat & Environment

السمة	Channel Catfish	قشر البياض
نوع الماء	Freshwater	Brackish
نطاق العمق	0-15m	2-30m
النطاق الجغرافي	Native to the central and eastern United States and southern Canada, from the Great Lakes south through the Mississippi River basin to the Gulf Coast. …	Native to river systems and large lakes of northern and central Europe and western Asia, including the Volga, Danube, Rhine, and Baltic Sea drainages. Tolerates …
الموطن	Estuaries	Estuaries

معلومات الصيد

السمة	Channel Catfish	قشر البياض
أسماك الصيد الرياضي	نعم	نعم
تصنيف المقاومة	5/10	6/10
الرقم القياسي العالمي	—	—
مستوى الزئبق	—	—

Cuisine & Edibility

Channel Catfish

Firm, moist white flesh with a mild, sweet flavor and very low fat. A Southern U.S. staple — beloved deep-fried with cornmeal batter; also excellent grilled or blackened.

قشر البياض

Lean, firm white flesh with a delicate, mild flavor and nearly no fat; boneless fillets are easy to work with. The most prized freshwater eating fish in Central and Eastern Europe.

Species Overview

Channel Catfish

The channel catfish is the most abundant and widely fished catfish species in North America. It has a keen sense of smell, with taste buds distributed across its entire body, enabling it to locate food in murky water.

قشر البياض

The zander is the European equivalent of the walleye and one of the most prized freshwater predators in Europe. Its excellent low-light vision makes it a crepuscular hunter. Its delicate white flesh is considered among the finest of freshwater fish.