Chanos chanos (Milkfish) is large (to 860 mm) marine and estuarine fish, which sometimes enters fresh water, It has a wide range in the Indo-Pacific from Africa to Japan and Australia, and from southern California to the Galapagos (Froese and Pauly 2024). In 1878, 'nearly 100 fish' from Hawaii were introduced to Cordelia Sough (then called Bridgeport) in Solano County, a tributary of Suisun Bay, and the San Francisco estuary (Smith 1896; Shebley 1917; Cohen and Carlton 1995; USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database 2024).
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