Other fish may benefit by feeding on the insects washed past the foraging hogsucker. Hogsuckers are of no sport fishing value, and they are not palatable. They are important in their role of liberating food for other, more desirable species and as forage for larger game fish. Distribution of hogsuckers in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of hogsuckers were taken.
White dots represent historic distributions.
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