The northern pike has a color pattern of light colored spots against a dark colored background. The upper parts are green or blue-gray and there is not a dusky bar underneath the eye.

For a fish called the northern pike (Esox lucius), “growing up” isn’t done until the fish completes its life cycle and becomes a parent. The pike must make a long and dangerous journey between new and …

“Pike aquaculture is used primarily as a source of fingerlings used to stock water bodies for recreational fishing, although in Finland, commercial pike fishery has also benefited from these stockings (Mann …

In short, the northern pike is a carnivore capable of eating any living vertebrate that can fit down its gullet.

Northern pike are native to Eurasia and North America, including most of Canada, Alaska and the interior northern United States from northwestern Vermont and northern West Virginia in the east, …

Northern Pike bones were even worn as talismans to defend against witchcraft, and medicines or potions were made of parts of its body. The Anglo-Saxons gave the fish the common name “pike,” …

Four species of the pike family live in the Northern Hemisphere. The grass pickerel and redfin pickerel (the two are closely related subspecies), the chain pickerel, the northern pike and the muskellunge …