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🇳🇴 Norway and 2 moreAtlantic mackerel Fast-swimming, oily fish of the North AtlanticTuna · Coasts and shelves · 1758 WorldSlender tuna A southern ocean tuna with oily flesh and a slender build.Tuna · Open ocean

🇷🇺 RussiaComephorus Two species of pelagic sculpins endemic to Lake Baikal in Russia.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1800

WorldBluefish Aggressive marine pelagic fish found in temperate and subtropical waters worldwide.Other · Coasts and shelves

WorldEscolar Deep-ocean fish with high oil content often mislabelled as tuna.Other · Coasts and shelves

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

Atlantic mackerel: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Comephorus: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Bluefish: SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEF, Public domain, source
Escolar: Allen Shimada, NOAA NMFS OST, Public domain, source

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