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Aquatic Species at Risk Sydenham Watershed Fish |
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Spotted Gar |
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With a long, cylindrical body and a beak-like mouth packed with
sharp teeth for grabbing small fish, the spotted gar is a
voracious ambush predator that feeds opportunistically on all fish
species of suitable size that it encounters. It lives in quiet
pools, backwaters and bays with dense aquatic vegetation and can
tolerate warm waters and low dissolved oxygen levels. The spotted
gar is extremely rare throughout the northern portion of its range
in southern Ontario. In the Sydenham River, the species is known
from only two individuals identified in the lower east branch in
1975.
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Sydenham Species At Risk c/o St. Clair Region Conservation Authority 205 Mill Pond Cres., Strathroy, ON N7G 3P9 2001 Sydenham River Recovery Team |
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