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Wakasagi
Species IUCN · Least Concern (LC)

Wakasagi

Hypomesus nipponensis, McAllister, 1963

marinebrackishfreshwater

About Wakasagi

Hypomesus nipponensis (Japanese smelt, in Japanese: wakasagi) is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia. It has been introduced in other locations, including the San Francisco Delta of the United States. It is raised in fisheries, and is very similar in appearance to the delta smelt (H. transpacificus).

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