''Hucho ishikawae'', the Korean taimen, is a species of

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fish found in the border region between

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

and China, including the Am-nok or Yalu, Dok-ro, Weon-ju and Jang-jin Rivers. Monitoring of the species has been made very difficult because of the lack of access to the areas in which this species occurs and consequently it is rated as

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by the

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. It is found in flowing water and reaches up to in length.''Hucho ishikawae''

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, 2014 Like others of Hucho Genus this fish is an active predator.

References

*Chyung, M.-K., 1977. The fishes of Korea. Il Ji Sa Publishing Co. Seoul, Korea. 727 p. ishikawae Fauna of North Korea Freshwater fish of China Fish described in 1928 Taxa named by Tamezo Mori {{Salmoniformes-stub