Species Directory

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Species Illustration Species Name Species Category Protected Status Region
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Side-profile illustration of an albacore tuna with big eyes and torpedo-shaped body. Bottom half of body is silvery white, dark blue on top/back, and lighter blue laterally. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Thunnus alalunga
Also Known As
Northern albacore, Longfin tuna, Germon
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Highly Migratory Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Epinephelus striatus
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
    • Reef Fish
  • ESA Threatened
  • SPAW Annex III
  • Region
    Southeast
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Mustelus schmitti
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
    • Sharks
  • ESA Threatened - Foreign
  • Region
    Foreign
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Anoxypristis cuspidata
Also Known As
Knifetooth sawfish, Pointed sawfish
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • CITES Appendix I
  • Region
    Foreign
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Side-profile illustration of brown monkfish with mouth open and small jagged teeth showing. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Lophius americanus
Also Known As
Goosefish, Monktails, Angler, Fishing frog, Allmouth, Molligut, Abbot, Sea-devil, Lotte
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Onaga (Long-Tail Red Snapper), Opakapaka (Pink Snapper), and Gindai (Oblique-Banded Snapper) fish on a white background
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Multiple species
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Groundfish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
  • Region
    Pacific Islands
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Side-profile illustration of a long lingcod fish with a big head and mouth and copper-colored mottling/spotting on its body. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Ophiodon elongatus
Also Known As
Cultus cod, Blue cod, Bluefish, Green cod, Buffalo cod, Greenling, White cod
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    West Coast
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Pristis pristis
Also Known As
Common sawfish
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • CITES Appendix I
  • Region
    Foreign
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Side-profile illustration of a narrow, silvery king mackerel fish with darker, gray coloring on its back. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Scomberomorus cavalla
Also Known As
Cavalla, Sierra
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Southeast
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Kaluga sturgeon illustration. Credit: Jack Hornady.
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Huso dauricus
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • CITES Appendix II
  • Region
    Foreign
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Mycteroperca fusca
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
    • Reef Fish
  • ESA Threatened - Foreign
  • Region
    Foreign
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Side-profile illustration of haddock with dark lateral line across body and distinguishing black blotch "thumbprint" between the line and pectoral fin. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Melanogrammus aeglefinus
Also Known As
Scrod
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Groundfish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
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Gulf sturgeon illustration. Lighter brown compared to Atlantic sturgeon. Credit: Jack Hornady.
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Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Threatened
  • CITES Appendix II
  • Region
    Southeast
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Mycteroperca jordani
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • Region
    Foreign
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Illustration of the right-eyed Greenland turbot flatfish with grayish brown body and large mouth and teeth. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Also Known As
Greenland halibut, Turbot, Newfoundland turbot, Blue halibut
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Alaska
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Acipenser medirostris
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Threatened
  • CITES Appendix II
  • Region
    Alaska
  • Region
    West Coast
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Pristis zijsron
Also Known As
Narrowsnout sawfish
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • Region
    Foreign
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Side-profile illustration of a greater amberjack fish with bluish gray back and silvery white belly. Illustration shows an amber stripe on the fish's head and along the middle of the body in addition to a yellow stripe from eye to tail. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Seriola dumerili
Also Known As
Amberjack, Medregal, Coronado
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Side-profile illustration of a gray triggerfish with round, olive-gray body. Gray triggerfish have blue spots and lines on their body and fins. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Balistes capriscus
Also Known As
Grey triggerfish, Leatherjacket, Leatherneck, Taly
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Southeast
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Side-profile illustration of a golden tilefish with silver and gray body, gold, yellow spotting, and dark red tail fin. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps
Also Known As
Golden bass, Golden snapper, Great northern tilefish, Rainbow tilefish
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Mobula birostris
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Threatened
  • CITES Appendix II
  • SPAW Annex III
  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Pacific Islands
  • Region
    Southeast
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Side-profile illustration of a gag grouper fish with brownish gray body and darker brown splotchy marks along the side. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Mycteroperca microlepis
Also Known As
Grouper, Copper belly, Charcoal belly
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Southeast
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Illustration of  flathead sole flatfish with oval-shaped, reddish gray-brown body, and both eyes on the right of their head. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Hippoglossoides elassodon
Also Known As
Sole, Flounder, Flathead flounder, Halibut-like flounder
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Alaska
  • Region
    West Coast
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Multiple species
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Reef Fish
  • Region
    Southeast
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European sturgeon illustration. Credit: Jack Hornady.
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Acipenser sturio
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • CITES Appendix I
  • Region
    Foreign