Species Directory

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Species Illustration Species Name Species Category Protected Status Region
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Side-profile illustration of a silvery scup fish with white belly, darker, blue color on its head, and spiny fins. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Stenotomus chrysops
Also Known As
Porgy, Maiden, Fair maid, Ironsides, Northern porgy
  • 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 bluish gray shortfin mako shark with white underside and pointed snout. Sides are light metallic blue and eyes and pectoral fins smaller (compared to longfin mako shark). Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Isurus oxyrinchus
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Sharks
  • CITES Appendix II
  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Pacific Islands
  • Region
    Southeast
  • Region
    West Coast
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Shortnose sturgeon illustration. Credit: Jack Hornady.
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Acipenser brevirostrum
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered
  • CITES Appendix I
  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Side-profile illustration of a bright red shortspine thornyhead fish with a big head, big yellow eye, and a spiny ridge on its head. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Sebastolobus alascanus
Also Known As
Thornyhead, Idiot fish, Idiot cod, Rockfish
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Groundfish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Alaska
  • Region
    West Coast
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Left-facing side profile illustration of silver hake fish with yellow eye and mouth open. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Merluccius bilinearis
Also Known As
Whiting, Atlantic hake, New England hake
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Carcharhinus porosus
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Sharks
  • ESA Candidate
  • Region
    Southeast
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Smalltooth sawfish illustration showing olive gray/brown, shark-like body with long, flat snout edged with teeth.
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Pristis pectinata
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • CITES Appendix I
  • SPAW Annex II
  • Region
    Southeast
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Squatina oculata
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
    • Sharks
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • Region
    Foreign
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Side-profile illustration of a silvery sockeye salmon fish with black speckles on its back. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Oncorhynchus nerka
Also Known As
Red salmon, Blueback salmon, Redfish, Summer Sockeye
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Alaska
  • Region
    West Coast
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Side-profile illustration of a silvery sockeye salmon fish with black speckles on its back. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Oncorhynchus nerka
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered
  • ESA Threatened
  • Region
    West Coast
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Side-profile illustration of a silvery blue and green Spanish mackerel fish with yellow spots on its side. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Scomberomorus maculatus
Also Known As
Mackerel, Spotted cybium, Bay mackerel, Spotted mackerel
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Southeast
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Spiny angelshark illustration. Credit: Jack Hornady.
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Squatina guggenheim
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
    • Sharks
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • Region
    Foreign
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Drawing of a Steelhead Trout in profile
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Oncorhynchus mykiss
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Threatened
  • ESA Experimental Population
  • ESA Candidate
  • Region
    Alaska
  • Region
    West Coast
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Kajikia audax
Also Known As
Nairagi, A‘u, Makijki, Barred marlin, Spikefish, Striped swordfish
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Highly Migratory Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Pacific Islands
  • Region
    West Coast
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Mustelus fasciatus
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
    • Sharks
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • Region
    Foreign
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Left-eyed summer flounder flatfish illustration with dark brown body, dark spots, and lighter, tan-colored fins. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Paralichthys dentatus
Also Known As
Flounder, Fluke, Northern fluke, Hirame
  • 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 blueline tilefish with a blue line from their snout to eye. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Caulolatilus microps
Also Known As
Blueline tilefish, Gray tilefish
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Reef Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Galeorhinus galeus
Also Known As
School Shark, Soupfin Shark, Snapper Shark
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Sharks
  • ESA Candidate
  • Region
    West Coast
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Totoaba macdonaldi
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Protected Fish
  • ESA Endangered - Foreign
  • CITES Appendix I
  • Region
    Foreign
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Side-profile illustration of a vermilion snapper fish with orange-red on top half of body and pale to silvery white for bottom half. Dorsal fin is red with yellow edge and tail fin is red with black edge. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Rhomboplites aurorubens
Also Known As
Snapper, Beeliner, Clubhead snapper, Night snapper, Besugo, Rubia
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    Southeast
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Color drawings of west coast pelagic species
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Multiple species
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Coastal Pelagic Fish
  • Region
    West Coast
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Illustration of West Coast groundfish species canary rockfish, lingcod, and Dover sole. Credit: Jack Hornady.
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Multiple species
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Groundfish
    • Sharks
  • Region
    West Coast
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Side-profile illustration of a bluefin tuna fish with silvery white bottom half and blue and green on top half and back. Bluefin tuna fish have small yellow fins from second dorsal to tail fin. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jack Hornady
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Thunnus thynnus
Also Known As
Tuna, Bluefin tuna, Toro, Maguro, Giant bluefin, Northern bluefin tuna
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Highly Migratory Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Southeast
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Illustration of White Hake. Credit: Jack Hornady.
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Urophycis tenuis
Also Known As
Mud hake, Boston hake
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Wild-Caught Seafood
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  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
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Left-facing side profile illustration of great white shark with white underside. Top half of body and most of tail is dark gray.
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Carcharodon carcharias
Also Known As
Great white, Great white shark, White pointer
  • Species Category
    Fish
    • Highly Migratory Fish
    • Sharks
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  • Region
    Alaska
  • Region
    New England/Mid-Atlantic
  • Region
    Pacific Islands
  • Region
    Southeast
  • Region
    West Coast