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Rippin Lips’ Scent Trail

Ask science fiction to conjure a superhero with otherworldly senses of taste and smell and the resulting futuristic freak would likely resemble a catfish. In space age intelligence and acuity, catfish are off the piscatorial charts—finned freaks of nature that beat bass, eagles and bloodhounds, combined. Indeed, their superior senses of taste, sight and certainly scent read more like science fiction than fact. “Olfactory folds" are the microscopic sensors that help fish detect ‘stuff that stinks.’ A 2-pound channel catfish has 142; a 7-pound largemouth bass, just 13. When a catfish detects certain succulent amino acid at just one part per 10...
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Lookdown Fish Species Information

Scientific Fish Name: Selene vomer
Other Fish Species Names:
Regions Fished: western Atlantic, the lookdown is found from Canada and Maine south to Uruguay, which includes Bermuda and the Gulf of MexicO
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Lookdown are found in both marine and brackish waters at depths of 1 to 53 meters.


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