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NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Marine Fisheries - Fish Common Names List

Marine Fisheries

Fish Finder

North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries' Guide to What's Catching

FISH LISTED BY COMMON NAMES

Albacore

Amberjack

Atlantic Bonito

Bank Sea Bass

Barracuda

Bigeye Tuna

Blackfin Tuna

 Black Drum Black Sea Bass Blacktip Shark Bluefish Bluefin Tuna

Blue Marlin

 Blueline Tilefish Butterfish Cobia Croaker Dolphin

Flounder

 Gag Grouper Gray Triggerfish Gray Trout Hammerhead Hickory Shad

Hogfish

 Jumping Mullet King Mackerel Knobbed Porgy Lizardfish Little Tunny

Mako Shark

 Menhaden Northern Puffer Oyster Toadfish Pigfish Pinfish

Pompano

 Red Drum Red Grouper Red Snapper Sailfish Scamp

Sea Mullet

 Searobin Sheepshead Silver Perch Silver Snapper Skate

Skipjack Tuna

 Spadefish Spanish Mackerel Speckled Hind Spottail Pinfish Spot

Speckled Trout

 Stingray Striped Bass Swordfish Tarpon Tiger Shark

Vermillion Snapper

Wahoo

White Marlin

 White Grunt Yellowfin Tuna Yellowedge Grouper

Yellowtail Snapper

          

 

N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries • 3441 Arendell Street • Morehead City, NC 28557 • 252-726-7021 or 800-682-2632

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