| Mr. Towill, in a striped blue apron and black wayfarer glasses, held court in the kitchen, topping off bite-size tarts with dollops of crushed New Jersey spring peas and paddlefish caviar. |
| Wild-caught paddlefish caviar is currently best avoided due to population concerns. |
| Wildlife experts like Henley and Habel are more concerned about harvests of wild fish like paddlefish than of trout, which is being grown in aquaculture facilities. |
| American paddlefish are predators of zooplankton and prey to other fishes, birds, and humans. |
| The tail fin of most ray-finned fish, with the exception of sturgeons and paddlefish, is homocercal, nearly symmetrical about the midline. |
| Also, being closely related to sturgeons, American paddlefish produce highly coveted roe, or caviar. |
