Common name: Peamouth
Family: Cyprinidae (minnows or carps)
Species: Mylocheils Caurins
Description: They grow up to 36 inches long and they are up to 12 pounds. Peamouth are dark brown to green on their backs with two dark strips on their sides. The top stripe goes from the head to the tail, but the bottom stripe stops about half way to the tail. Their bellies are silver yellow and their fins are yellow to brown in color. Peamouth are long, thin fish with a large eye and long round shout. The male has red on his side, belly, mouth and gill when mature
Habitat:The peamouth is a western fish native to the several rivers in British Columbia and the western of the United States. Peamouth prefer lakes and slow moving portions of stream and will school where aquatic vegetation is abundant. It can live in brackish or slightly salty) waters for a limited time.
Range/migration:
Food: They mainly eat aquatic animals, Terrestrial insects and also some smaller fishes.
Reproduction: Peamouth spawn in shallow streams and long lakeshores over a gravel bottom. In late spring eggs are laid on the bottom where they stick to rocks and gravel. A female may lay between 5,00 to 30,00 eggs depending on her age and size. The newly fish stay in schools in shallow waters until late summer. They then move into deeper waters, but they tend to stay in small schools.
Enemies: Peamouth even has larger fish as enemies and also birds
More information:
http://www.kidfish.bc.ca/fish/infopeamouth.htm
http://www.volws.bc.ca/resources/Fishwildlife/fish Peamouth.htm