Goldeye

Goldeye
Goldeye
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Hiodontiformes
Family: Hiodontidae
Genus: Hiodon
Species: H. alosoides
Binomial name
Hiodon alosoides
(Rafinesque, 1819)
Synonyms
  • Amphiodon alveoides Rafinesque 1819
  • Hiodon Clodalis Richardson
  • Hiodon chrysopsis Richardson 1836
  • Hyodon alosoides Jordan and Gilbert 1883
  • Hyodon chrysopsis Richardson Jordan and Evermann 1896–1900
  • Hiodon alosoides Nash 1908
  • Elattonistius chrysopsis (Richardson) Jordan and Thomson 1910
  • Amphiodon alosoides Rafinesque Hubbs 1926
  • Cyprinus (Abramis?) smithii Richardson Jordan, Evermann, and Clark 1930

The goldeye, Hiodon alosoides, is a species of fish in the mooneye family (Hiodontidae). It occurs from as far down the Mackenzie River as Aklavik in the north to Mississippi in the south, and from Alberta in the west to Ohio south of the Great Lakes, with an isolated population south of James Bay.[1] It is notable for a conspicuous golden iris in the eyes. It prefers turbid slower-moving waters of lakes and rivers, where it feeds on insects, crustaceans, fish, frogs, shrews, and mice. The fish averages less than 1 lb (450 g) or 12 in (30 cm) in length, but can be found up to 2 lbs (900 g) or 16 in (41 cm) in some lakes.[2] It has been reported up to 52 cm in length.

The scientific name means shad-like (alosoides) toothed hyoid (Hiodon, or mooneye family).[3] It is also called Winnipeg goldeye, western goldeye, yellow herring, toothed herring, shad mooneye, la Queche, weepicheesis, or laquaiche aux yeux d’or in French.[3]

The goldeye is considered a good fly-fishing fish, but not popular with most anglers because of its small size.

Goldeye was reported by fishermen as early as 1876, but its fresh flesh is soft and unappealing, so it was only taken randomly in gillnets and (in the past) sold for dogfood.[4] They are now sought after by many consumers as a smoked fish. Many commercial fishermen sell them smoked after being processed in a brine made of spices, salt, brown sugar, and other secret ingredients. They are smoke in oak wood, apple wood, and other woods. Each producer has their own ways of smoking. The goldeye has a soft meat but can also be soaked in a salt brine for 24 hours and then poached, firming up the flesh.

Its commercial viability was realized by Robert Firth, who immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba from Hull, England in 1886. Firth was carrying on a mediocre trade in cold-smoked goldeye, when he miscalculated the heat of his smoker and accidentally developed the now-standard method of hot-smoking it whole.[2] The bright red or orange colour of the smoked fish resulted from using only willow smoke, but today is achieved through aniline dye.[5] It became a fashionable gourmet dish after 1911,[6] with Woodrow Wilson and the Prince of Wales counted amongst its fans.[2] In 1926–29 the annual catch exceeded a million pounds, but stocks declined from 1931 and little was fished from Lake Winnipeg after 1938.[6] A small amount of the harvest is shipped to the United States, but most is consumed in Canada.[2] Although Lake Winnipeg was once the main commercial source, it now comes from elsewhere, especially in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and the culinary name Winnipeg goldeye has come to be associated with the city where it is processed.

The fish is the namesake of Winnipeg's minor league baseball team, the Winnipeg Goldeyes.

Notes

  1. ^ Scott & Crossman 1973, p. 328–29
  2. ^ a b c d McClane 1974, p. 432
  3. ^ a b Scott & Crossman 1973, p. 332
  4. ^ Scott & Crossman 1973, p. 330–31
  5. ^ Scott & Crossman 1973, p. 328
  6. ^ a b Scott & Crossman 1973, p. 331

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