They are often mistaken for juvenile mahi-mahi; they are somewhat smaller than their mahi-mahi cousins, only reaching a maximum length of TL . Pompano dolphinfish have compressed heads and dorsal fins extending the entire length of their bodies.
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They inhabit the surface of warm temperate and tropical sea, and feed on algae, plankton, and smaller fish . " Hemiramphus " species are edible but are more important as food fish for larger predatory species including dolphinfish and billfish.
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From around mid-July onwards, white marlin, as well as the other species of Gulf Stream gamefish such as dolphinfish, yellowfin, and bigeye tuna, start showing up in the continental shelf canyons offshore of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
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The reef is a breeding ground for many large billfish ( marlin ) species, sharks, tuna, giant trevally, mahi-mahi ( dolphinfish ) and snapper, due to it having many channels leading from extremely deep water into shallow lagoons.
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The billfish ( marlin and sailfish ) and the larger tuna ( bluefin, yellowfin ) are the main target species; smaller game fish are also sought, such as Spanish mackerel, dolphinfish, wahoo, smaller tuna species such as albacore and skipjack tuna, Australian longtail.
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The origin of the name " dolphinfish " is uncertain, but theories include that dolphinfish communicate using high-pitched sounds similar to a dolphin, because they are about the size of a small dolphin, or due to " dorado " ( Spanish for " golden " ) having been purportedly used historically in Spanish for both dolphins ( normally " delf�n " ) and dolphinfish.
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The origin of the name " dolphinfish " is uncertain, but theories include that dolphinfish communicate using high-pitched sounds similar to a dolphin, because they are about the size of a small dolphin, or due to " dorado " ( Spanish for " golden " ) having been purportedly used historically in Spanish for both dolphins ( normally " delf�n " ) and dolphinfish.
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The origin of the name " dolphinfish " is uncertain, but theories include that dolphinfish communicate using high-pitched sounds similar to a dolphin, because they are about the size of a small dolphin, or due to " dorado " ( Spanish for " golden " ) having been purportedly used historically in Spanish for both dolphins ( normally " delf�n " ) and dolphinfish.
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__ Notes : Dorado, or ! ital ! Coryphaena hippurus, are found throughout the world and, according to the guidebook " Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast, " have acquired a variety of names, including dolphinfish, dolphin, mahi mahi ( Hawaii ), bakhti bakhti ( Syria ) coriphene ( France ), fei niau fu ( Taiwan ), ca nucheo ( Vietnam ) and dakaunomoutas ( Cyprus ) . ! ital ! Coryphaena ! off !, meaning " showing a helmet, " is the name given the fish by Aristotle; hippurus is Greek for " horse tail ."
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As the continental shelf drops sharply relatively close to shore, Pedas? s waters are chock full of pelagic game fish, with year-round catch including amberjack, Pacific sailfish ( " Istiophorus platypterus " ), cubera snapper ( " Lutjanus cyanopterus " ), roosterfish ( " Nematistius pectoralis " ) and grouper, while " dorado " ( " Coryphaena hippurus, " commonly called mahi-mahi, or dolphinfish ), both bigeye tuna ( " Thunnus obesus " ) and yellowfin tuna ( " Thunnus albacares " ), and wahoo ( " Acanthocybium solandri " ) are found seasonally, November through April.
