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Cree ocêk, Ojibwa ojiig) borrowed by fur traders. In some regions, the fisher is known as a pekan, derived from its name in the Abenaki language, or wejack, an Algonquian word (cf. The fisher is closely related to, but larger than, the American marten ( Martes americana) and Pacific marten ( Martes caurina). It is sometimes misleadingly referred to as a fisher cat, even though it is not a cat.
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It is a member of the mustelid family (commonly referred to as the weasel family), and is in the monospecific genus Pekania. The fisher ( Pekania pennanti) is a small carnivorous mammal native to North America, a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States.