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Fish of East Asia

48 fish from East Asia on EveryFish so far.

🇷🇺 Russia and 2 moreMasu salmon Pacific salmonid native to East Asian coasts and rivers.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes

🇯🇵 JapanBiwa trout Salmonid fish endemic to Lake Biwa in JapanSalmonid · Rivers and lakes · 2025

🇹🇼 TaiwanFormosan landlocked salmon Endangered freshwater salmon endemic to Taiwan's high mountains.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes

🇷🇺 Russia and 1 moreSakhalin taimen Large, ancient salmonid of Northeast AsiaSalmonid · Rivers and lakes

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Masu salmon: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Biwa trout: No machine-readable author provided. Vineyard assumed (based on copyri, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Formosan landlocked salmon: 邱文強, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Sakhalin taimen: Totti, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

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