garfish

1. another name for garpike

2. an elongated European marine teleost fish, Belone belone, with long toothed jaws: related to the flying fishes

3. any of various marine or estuarine fish with a long needle-like lower jaw

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Garfish

(Belone belone), also European garfish or European needlefish, a fish of the family Belonidae. The body reaches a length of 90 cm and a weight of 1 kg. The garfish is distributed in the temperately warm coastal waters of Europe and North Africa; it is found in the Baltic, North, Mediterranean, and Black seas. A predatory school fish, it feeds principally on small fishes. The garfish spawns in the littoral zone. Its roe are equipped with sticky filaments for attachment to algae and marine grasses. The fish’s commercial value is slight. The Russian name for the garfish—sargan—is sometimes used to designate other members of the family Belonidae.

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