Editing Game fish (section)

==Examples==
{{main|List of freshwater game fish|List of marine game fish}}
[[File:Striped Blue Marlin.jpg|thumb|[[Marlin]]s are popular blue-water game fish]]
[[File:Esox lucius ZOO 1.jpg|thumb|The [[Esox|pike]] is a classic freshwater game fish]]
[[File:Pan-fried-fish.jpg|thumb|Cooking panfish]]
The species of fish prized by anglers varies with geography and tradition. Some fish are sought for their value as [[seafood|food]], while others are pursued for their fighting abilities, or for the difficulty of successfully enticing the fish to bite the [[fish hook|hook]].
* [[Big-game fishing|Big-game fish]] or [[blue water]] game fish are large [[pelagic]] [[saltwater fish]] such as [[tuna]], [[tarpon]], [[grouper]] and [[billfish]] ([[sailfish]], [[marlin]] and [[swordfish]]). Occasionally other [[predatory fish]]es such as [[shark]]s, [[barracuda]] and [[dolphinfish]] are also pursued. Large powerful [[freshwater fish]] such as [[alligator gar]], [[lake sturgeon]] and [[flathead catfish]] can also be considered big-game fish.
* Freshwater fish targeted by anglers in [[North America]] include [[bass (fish)|bass]] (especially [[black bass]]), [[salmon]]/[[trout]], [[Salvelinus|char]], [[walleye]]/[[sauger]], [[common snook]], [[red drum|redfish]], [[northern pike]] and [[muskellunge]], [[sturgeon]], [[gar]] and several [[catfish]] species. In [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], large [[cyprinid]]s (e.g. [[carp]]s, [[barbel (fish)|barbel]]s, [[bream]]s, [[chub]]s, [[Leuciscus|dace]]s and [[tench]]), [[perch]]es, freshwater [[salmonid]]s (trout, [[Thymallus|grayling]]s, [[Coregoninae|whitefish]] and [[taimen]]), [[freshwater drum|drum]], [[Esox|pike]]s, catfish, [[eel]]s and [[snakehead (fish)|snakehead]]s are also popular, although many of them are regarded derogatorily as "[[trash fish]]", "dirt fish" or "[[pest (organism)|pest]] fish" in America.
** In the [[United Kingdom]], "game fish" refers specifically to salmonids other than graylings &ndash; that is, [[salmon]], [[trout]] and [[Salvelinus|char]].  Other popular freshwater fish are called [[coarse fishing|coarse fish]].
* Small/medium-sized freshwater fish routinely sought by anglers are called [[panfish]] in the [[United States]], because they typically can fit wholly into a normal [[cooking pan]] without needing to be [[fish steak|cut]] or [[fish fillet|fillet]]ed. Examples are [[crappie]]s, [[yellow perch]], [[rock bass]], [[bluegill]]s and [[Lepomis|other sunfish]] ([[Centrarchidae]]). Panfish are often sought by younger, more inexperienced anglers, at least partly due to their proactivity to feed and the relative ease to be caught; although adult anglers sometimes consider them as "nuisance fish" due to their tendency to opportunistically strike the [[fishing bait|bait]]s/[[fishing lure|lure]]s intended for other larger fishes.

Some popular game fish have been [[introduced species|introduced]] and [[fish stocking|stocked]] worldwide.  [[Rainbow trout]], for instance, can be found nearly anywhere the [[climate]] is appropriate, from their [[native range]] on the [[Pacific Coast]] of [[North America]] to the [[mountains]] of southern [[Africa]],<ref name=skel01>{{cite book|last1=Skelton|first1=Paul|title=A complete guide to the freshwater fishes of southern Africa|date=2001|publisher=Struik|location=Cape Town|isbn=9781868726431|page=72|edition=New|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bURse4a-2m8C&pg=PA72}}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and is now [[100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species|listed as one of the worst]] [[invasive species]].<ref name=100WW>{{cite web|url=http://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/100_worst.php |title=100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species|publisher=Global Invasive Species Database |access-date=5 September 2018}}</ref>