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Posted 22 February 2007 - 02:29 PM

Anyone know anything about burbot? I was once offered a burbot in a bucket, but had to decline. I would expect that they like cold water, but I know little else. The do get kind of big, but maybe they are slow growing enough to keep for a few years. Are they bullies or bullied? Etc.?

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Posted 22 February 2007 - 02:41 PM

I hear burbot like cold water.

Don't know much about them except they are in the cod family and caught mainly through the ice by ice fishermen.

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Posted 07 July 2007 - 10:31 PM

Burbot do like cold water, and only juvenile fish occur in relatively shallow water (3-4 feet) under stones. Burbot over seven inches go into much deeper water (at least ten feet, some burbot in lakes go as deep as 700 meters). They are active at night and they avoid light. Juvenile burbot eat insects and larvae of bottom-oriented fish, primarily sculpins. They do not grow slow, by their second year they are a foot long in lakes, and 8 inches in rivers. Burbot, besides the walleye, are probably the most phlegmatic fish in North American fresh waters.

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Posted 09 July 2007 - 06:48 PM

Phlegmatic: "of the nature of or abounding in the humor phlegm"

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 07:41 PM

No, in this case "phlegmatic" means calm, peaceful, quiet.

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 10:27 PM

No, in this case "phlegmatic" means calm, peaceful, quiet.

Yeah, but my definition is more ambiguous!




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