Milkfish

The milkfish is a widespread ray-finned fish of the Indo-Pacific, the sole living species of the family Chanidae and the only living member of the genus Chanos, found from South Africa to Hawaii and the Marquesas and from California to the Galapagos, typically in tropical offshore waters one to thirty metres deep and often entering estuaries and rivers. It has an elongated, compressed body with a small toothless mouth and a forked tail, reaching up to 1.8 metres in length though usually no more than one metre. Milkfish farming began roughly 1,800 years ago in the Philippines and later spread to Indonesia, Taiwan and the wider Pacific; the species now accounts for about 14 percent of all aquaculture production worldwide, valued for its rapid growth, disease resistance, tolerance of captivity and high market value, with Indonesia and the Philippines the leading producers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/