List of U.S. state fish facts for kids
This is a list of U.S. state fishes:
State | Fish | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Largemouth bass (fresh water) |
Micropterus salmoides | 1975 | |
Fighting tarpon (salt water) |
Megalops atlanticus | 1955 | ||
Alaska | King salmon | Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | 1962 | |
Arizona | Arizona trout | Oncorhynchus gilae (subspecies apache) | 1986 | |
Arkansas | ||||
California | Golden trout (fresh water) |
Oncorhynchus mykiss (subspecies aguabonita) | 1947 | |
Garibaldi (salt water) |
Hypsypops rubicundus | 1995 | ||
Colorado | Greenback cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies stomias) | 1994 | |
Connecticut | American shad | Alosa sapidissima | 2003 | |
Delaware | Weakfish | Cynoscion regalis | 1981 | |
Florida | Florida largemouth bass (fresh water) |
Micropterus salmoides (subspecies floridanus) |
2007 | |
Atlantic sailfish (salt water) |
Istiophorus albicans | 2007 | ||
Georgia | Largemouth bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1970 | |
Hawaii | Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa | Rhinecanthus rectangulus | 2006 | |
Idaho | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki | 1990 | |
Illinois | Bluegill | Lepomis macrochirus | 1986 | |
Indiana | None | |||
Iowa | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 2001 | |
Kansas | ||||
Kentucky | Kentucky spotted bass | Micropterus punctulatus | 1956 | |
Louisiana | White crappie | Pomoxis annularis | 1993 | |
Maine | Landlocked Atlantic salmon | Salmo salar | ||
Maryland | Striped Bass | Morone saxatilis | 1965 | |
Massachusetts | Cod | Gadus morhua | ||
Michigan | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1988 | |
Minnesota | Walleye | Sander vitreus | 1965 | |
Mississippi | Largemouth bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1974 | |
Missouri | Channel catfish (fish) |
Ictalurus punctatus | 1997 | |
Paddlefish (aquatic animal) |
Polyodon spathula | 1997 | ||
Montana | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki | 1977 | |
Nebraska | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 1997 | |
Nevada | Lahontan cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies henshawi) | ||
New Hampshire | Brook trout (freshwater) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | 1994 | |
Striped bass (salt water game fish) |
Morone saxatilis | 1994 | ||
New Jersey | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1991 | |
New Mexico | Rio Grande cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies virginalis) | 2005 | |
New York | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1975 | |
Striped bass (marine) |
Morone saxatilis | |||
North Carolina | Channel Bass | Sciaenops ocellatus | 1971 | |
Southern Appalachian brook trout (freshwater trout) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | 2005 | ||
North Dakota | Northern pike | Esox lucius | ||
Oklahoma | White bass | Morone chrysops | ||
Oregon | Chinook Salmon | Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | 1961 | |
Pennsylvania | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | ||
Rhode Island | Striped bass | Morone saxatilis | ||
South Carolina | Striped bass | Morone saxatilis | 1972 | |
South Dakota | Walleye | Sander vitreus | ||
Tennessee | Largemouth bass (sport fish) |
Micropterus salmoides | ||
Channel catfish (state commercial fish) |
Ictalurus punctatus | |||
Texas | Guadalupe bass | Micropterus treculii | 1989 | |
Utah | Bonneville cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies utah) | 1997 | |
Vermont | Brook trout (cold water) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | ||
Walleye (warm water) |
Sander vitreus | |||
Virginia | Brook trout (fresh water) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | ||
Striped bass (salt water) |
Morone saxatilis | |||
Washington | Steelhead trout | Oncorhynchus mykiss | 1969 | |
West Virginia | West Virginia golden brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | ||
Wisconsin | Muskellunge | Esox masquinongy | 1955 | |
Wyoming | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii |
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