[Garfish (USA, UK); Garpike (UK); Needle fish (Scotland); Hornfisk (Denmark);
Horngjel (Norway); Horngädda (Sweden); Hornfisch (Germany); Nokkakala
(Finland); Belona (Poland); Agulha (Portugal); Agulla (Spain); Anguillo
(France); Aguglia; (Italy); Zargana (Greece, Turkey);
Belone belone]
This long, very slender fish is most plentiful in the northeast Atlantic and Baltic Sea, but is found from the coast of Morocco, through the Mediterranean and Black Sea, and can be found as far west as Iceland. In the Mediterranean it is most common from the east coast of Spain, around Italy and through the Greek islands. They can grow to nearly 41 inches (104 cm) and 3 pounds (1.4 kg) but are usually about 18 inches (45 cm). These fish are a modern fish and totally unrelated to the ancient American Gars. IUCN Red List LC (Least Concern). Photo by Assianir distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v4.0 International.
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