Scottsbt.com: Fish Id: A Guide To East Coast Fishes

Fish Id: A Guide To East Coast Fishes

Thanks again to the folks patient enough to let us photograph their fish--and to those who may be kind enough to bring in the ones we haven't photographed yet!

Updated:9/8/12
Future updates will note:
**= Newer fish
##= Edited info/pic

For a Visual Search, look in these Sections:
Freshwater NJ
Commonly Caught Fish in Great Bay Area
Sharks
Ocean Front and Offshore
Rays and Skates
Misc.Species
Unrecognizable or rare Species in Great Bay area
(Misc. and Uncommon are the place to look if you are asking "What's this strange fish?")
Or Search Alphabetical List below:

(A) Albacore Amberjack, Greater Anchovy Anemone Atlantic Croaker Atlantic Cutlass Atlantic Moonfish	(B) Ballyhoo Banded Rudderfish Bass, Large mouth Bass, Small mouth Bass, Striped Bigeye, Tuna Black Crappie Black Drum Blackfish Blenny, Striped Blowfish (Puffer)## Bluefish Bonito/a Bunker Burrfish (Puffer)## Butterfish Brook Trout
(C) Catfish Cigar (Lizardfish) Cobia Codfish Cownose Ray Crab, Spider Crevalle Jack Croaker,Atlantic Cutlass, Atlantic	(D) Dolphin (Mahi-Mahi) Drum, Black Drum, Red
(E) Eelpout Eel, American Eel, Cusk	(F) Filefish, Orange Flounder, Winter Flounder, Summer (Fluke) Florida Pompano
(G) Grunt, Pigfish	(H) Hake, Spotted Herring, Alewife (River) Herring, Atlantic (Ocean) Herring, Blue Back (River) Herring, Atlantic Thread (Ocean) Hogchoker
(I)	(J) Jack, Greater Amber Jack, Crevalle
(K) Killifish, Striped/Minnows Kingfish	(L) Lizardfish (Cigar) Lobster Longfin Tuna (Albacore)
(M) Mackerel Mahi-Mahi (Dolphin) Mantis Shrimp Menhaden (Bunker) Minnows Monkfish Musky (Muskellunge) Mummichugs	(N) Northern Puffer
(O) Oyster Cracker	(P) Perch, Yellow Perch, White Pickerel, Chain Pickerel, Red Pigfish, Grunt Poorman's Lobster (Monkfish) Pompano, Florida Porgy (Scup) Puffer, Burrfish## > Puffer, Northern## Puffer, Smoothback**
(Q)	(R) Ray, Cownose Rudderfish, Banded
(S) (Scup), Porgy Sea Anemone Sea Bass, Black Searobin Shark, Brown Shark, Spiny Dog Shark, Thresher Shark, Mako Sharksucker Shrimp, Mantis Skipjack Tuna Smoothback Puffer** Spearing Spider Crab Spiney Boxfish (Burrfish)## Spot Spotted Hake Starfish Stargazer Striped Bass (Striper) Striped Blenny	(T) Tautog Triggerfish Trout, Brook Tuna Type, Bonito, Bonita Tuna, Bigeye Tuna, Bluefin Tuna, Longfin (Albacore) Tuna, Skipjack Tuna, Yellowfin Tunny, Little
(U)	(V)
(W) Wahoo Weakfish White Perch Wreckfish	(X)
(Y) Yellowfin Tuna Yellow Perch	(Z)

Check out Fish GuideExtras
to learn more about the parts of fish

Got something and it's not a fish, or looks fishy?
Check out Critters

What can you keep?
NJ Regulations
and NJ State Record Fish

Additional Fish-id sites:
http://www.fishbase.org/
www.outdoorcharts.com (buy Fish ID charts online)

References