Cisco (Coregonus artedi) is a saltwater, freshwater, brackish species recorded in the United States. It is found at depths of 0–64 m.
Scientific name: Coregonus artedi · Water: Saltwater, Freshwater, Brackish
Size: up to 57 cm
The cisco is a nerito-pelagic salmonid that inhabits the open waters of lakes and large rivers as well as the coastal waters of Hudson Bay, recorded from the surface down to 64 m. It feeds on plankton and large crustaceans. Its range is the Atlantic and Arctic basins from Quebec to the Northwest Territories in Canada and south to the St. Lawrence, Great Lakes and upper Mississippi River basins in northern Ohio, Illinois and Minnesota, and it has been introduced elsewhere. Maximum length is about 57 cm total length, commonly about 29.3 cm, and it can live 11 years. It is a commercial species and a gamefish, utilized fresh, smoked and frozen and suitable for steaming, frying, broiling, boiling, microwaving and baking. Fishing vulnerability is moderate at 37 of 100 and resilience low, and the price category is very high. IUCN lists it as least concern.
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