List of fishes of the North Sea sorted alphabetically
To identify the type of fish by its appearance, we recommend using a convenient guide of fishes of North Sea
American pollack
Order: Gadiformes Family: Gadidae
pollachius virens Billet, Coal-fish, Coalfish, Coley, Glassan, Gloshan, Green cod, Pollock, Poodler, Saithe, Sillock
Length: up to 130 cm.
Weight: up to 32 kg.
Arctic char
Order: Salmonidae Family: Salmonidae
salvelinus alpinus Alpine char, Arctic charr, Breeder, Char, Charr, Davatchan, Lake char, Redfish, Salt-water trout, Sea run trout, Sea trout, Trout
Length: up to 107 cm.
Weight: up to 15 kg.
Arctic sculpin
Order: Scorpaeniformes Family: Cottidae
myoxocephalus scorpius Bull-rout, Bullhead, Daddy sculpin, European sculpin, Father-lasher, Goat sculpin, Greenland bullhead, Greenland sculpin, Guffy, Horny whore, Pig-fish, Scolping, Scopin, Scopy, Scully, Sculpin, Scummy, Scumpy, Sea-scorpion, Short-spined, Short-spined sea scorpion, Shorthorn sculpin, Shortspined sea scorpion, Warty sculpin
Length: up to 60 cm.
Weight: up to 3.5 kg.
Arokura
Order: Lampriformes Family: Opah
lampris guttatus Cravo, Glacefish, Gudlax, Jerusalem haddock, Kingfish, Mariposa, Moonfish, North Atlantic Opah, Ocean moonfish, Opal fish, San Pedrofish, Spotted moonfish, Spotted Opah, Spotted opah, Sunfish
Length: up to 200 cm.
Weight: up to 270 g.
Atlantic bonito
Order: Scombriformes Family: Scombridae
sarda sarda Atlantic Bonito, Belted bonito, Bloater, Bone jack, Boston mackerel, Common bonito, Horse mackerel, Pelamid, Short finned tunny, Skipjack, Stripe-backed pelamis
Length: up to 91 cm.
Weight: up to 11 kg.
Atlantic cod
Order: Gadiformes Family: Gadidae
gadus morhua Bacalao, Bacaleau, Baccalao, Baccale, Baccalo, Bank cod, Bank fish, Bastard, Berry fish, BlackBerry fish, Breeder, Bull dog, Cod, Cod-fish, Codd, Codde, Codling, Duffy, Fall fish, Fish, Foxy tom-cod, Grog fish, Haberdine, Harbour tom-cod, Hen, Inshore cod, Kil'din cod, Loader, Logy fish, Mother fish, Newfoundland fish, Northern cod, Old soaker, Pea, Red-cod, Schrod, Scrad, Scraud, Scrawd, Scrod, Seal-head cod, Shoal cod, Shoal fish, Shore cod, Shore fish, Snig, Snub, Snubby, Soaker, Split, Swallow, Swallow tail, Tally fish, Tom-cod, Trap cod, Trap fish, Winter fish
Length: up to 200 cm.
Weight: up to 96 kg.
Atlantic herring
Order: Clupeiformes Family: Clupeidae
clupea harengus Bank herring, Fall herring, Hern, Herning, Herring, Herron, Labrador herring, Mesh herring, Murman herring, Norwegian herring, Sardine, Sea Sea herring, Sea stick, Shore herring, Split, Spring herring, Summer herring, Yawling
Length: up to 45 cm.
Weight: up to 1.1 kg.
Atlantic salmon
Order: Salmonidae Family: Salmonidae
salmo salar Bay salmon, Black salmon, Breeder, Caplin-scull salmon, Common Fiddler, Grayling, Grilse, Grilt, Kelt, Landlocked salmon, N. Ouananiche, Ouinanish, Outside salmon, Parr, Salmon, Salmon peel, Sea salmon, Sebago salmon, Silver salmon, Slink, Smolt, Spring fish, Spring salmon, Winnish
Length: up to 150 cm.
Weight: up to 43 kg.
Atlantic saury
Order: Beloniformes Family: Scomberesocidae
scomberesox saurus Atlantic needlefish, Atlantic Saury, Bill fish, Billfish, Garfish, King gar, Needlefish, Needlenose, Saurey pike, Saurie, Saury pike, Saury-pike, Skipper, Skippy, Skopster
Length: up to 50 cm.
Weight: up to 130 g.
Bluntnose sixgill shark
Order: hexanchiformes Family: hexanchidae
hexanchus griseus 6-gilled shark, Atlantic mud shark, Atlantic mudshark, Bluntnose Sixgill Shark, Brown shark, Bull dog shark, Bull shark, Cow shark, Gray shark, Grey shark, Mud shark, Six-gill shark, Six-gilled shark, Sixgill cow shark, Sixgill shark, Sixgilled shark
Length: up to 600 cm.
Weight: up to 1 t.
Brown trout
Order: Salmonidae Family: Salmonidae
salmo trutta Blacktail, Brook trout, Brownie, Finnock, Galway sea trout, Gillaroo, Herling, Hirling, Loch leven trout, Orange fin, Orkney sea trout, Peal, Salmon trout, Sea trout, Sea-trout, Sewin, Trout, Whiting, Whitling
Length: up to 100 cm.
Weight: up to 20 kg.
Common remora
Order: Carangiformes Family: Remora
remora remora Brown remora, Brown sucker, Common sucker, Remora, Shark pilot, Shark sucker, Shark-sucker, Short suckerfish, Stout suckerfish, Stout sucking fish, Suck fish
Length: up to 86 cm.
Weight: up to 1.1 kg.
Common thresher
Order: Lamniformes Family: Thresher shark
alopias vulpinus Atlantic thresher, Big-eye thresher, Common thresher shark, Fox shark, Grayfish, Green thresher, Sea fox, Slasher, Swingletail, Swiveltail, Swivetail, Thintail thresher, Thrasher, Thresher, Thresher shark, Thresher Shark, Tresher shark, Whip-tailed shark, Zorro thresher shark
Length: up to 609 cm.
Weight: up to 510 kg.
Longspine snipefish
Order: Syngnathiformes Family: centriscidae
macroramphosus scolopax Bellowfish, Common bellowsfish, Common snipefish, Deepbody snipefish, Long nosed snipefish, Lonspine snipefish, Slender snipefish, Snipe-fish, Snipefish, Spine trumpet fish, Trumpet fish, Trumpetfish
Length: up to 20 cm.
Weight: up to 43 g.
Ninespine stickleback
Order: Scorpaeniformes Family: Stickleback
pungitius pungitius Barnstickle, Barnystickle, Barnytickle, Branchy, Branstickle, Doctor, Nine-spined stickleback, Pinfish, Prickley, Prickly, Prickly back, Spanicle, Spannistickle, Spanny, Spannystickle, Spantickle, Sparnicle, Sparny, Sparnytickle, Spawn, Spawnykettle, Spawnytickle, Stickleback, Ten-spine stickleback, Ten-spined stikleback, Thornback, Thorny back, Tiny burnstickle
Length: up to 7 cm.
Weight: up to 2 g.
Nursehound
Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Catshark
scyliorhinus stellaris Bull huss, Dogfish, Flake, Flake catfish, Greate-spotted dogfish, Greater spotted dogfish, Hound, Large-spotted dogfish, Larger spotted dogfish, Nurse-hound, Rigg
Length: up to 170 cm.
Weight: up to 45 kg.
School shark
Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Houndshark
galeorhinus galeus Eastern school shark, Flake, Greyboy, Greyshark, Hundshai, Penny's dog, Schnapper shark, Sharpie shark, Snapper shark, Soupfin shark, Sweet William shark, Tope, Tope oil shark, Tope school shark, Tope shark, Tope soupfin shark, Vitamin shark
Length: up to 195 cm.
Weight: up to 44.7 kg.
Sea lamprey
Order: Lamprey Family: Petromyzontidae
petromyzon marinus Eel sucker, Great sea lamprey, Green lamprey, Green sea lamprey, Lake Lamprey, Lamper, Lamprey eel, Marine lamprey, Nannie nine eyes, Nine eyes, Shad lamprey, Spotted lamprey, Stone sucker, Sucker
Length: up to 120 cm.
Weight: up to 2.3 kg.
Skipjack tuna
Order: Scombriformes Family: Scombridae
katsuwonus pelamis Aku, Arctic bonito, Atlantic bonito, Atu, Banjo, Barriolet, Bonito, Club mackerel, Lesser tunny, Mushmouth, Ocean bonito, Oceanic bonito, Oceanic skipjack, Skipjack Tuna, Skipjack tuna fish, Skipjack-tuna, Skipper, Skippy, Skiy jack, Striped bellied bonito, Striped bellied tunny, Striped bonito, Striped tuna, Striped tunny, Stripey, Stripped tuna, Stripy, Victor fish, Watermelon, White bonito
Length: up to 110 cm.
Weight: up to 34.5 kg.
Smooth hammerhead
Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Hammerhead shark
sphyrna zygaena Common hammerhead, Common hammerhead shark, Common smooth hammerhead shark, Hammerhead, Hammerhead shark, Round headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammer head shark, Round-headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammerhead shark, Shark, Smooth hammer-headed shark, Smooth Hammerhead, Smooth hammerhead shark
Length: up to 400 cm.
Weight: up to 400 kg.
Spiny dogfish
Order: Squatiniformes Family: Squalidae
squalus acanthias Blue dog, Common spiny fish, Darwen salmon, Dog fish, Dogfish, Grayfish, Pacific dogfish, Piked dogfish, Rock salmon, Southern spiny dogfish, Spiky dog, Spiny Dogfish, Spotted spiny dogfish, Spring dogfish, Spur dogfish, Spurdog, Victorian spotted dogfish, White-spotted dogfish, White-spotted spurdog, Whitespotted dogfish
Length: up to 160 cm.
Weight: up to 9.1 kg.
Three-spined stickleback
Order: Gasterosteoidei Family: Stickleback
gasterosteus aculeatus Banstickle, Barnstickle, Barnystickle, Barnytickle, Branchy, Branstickle, Burnstickle, Common stickleback, Cushy, Doctor, Eastern stickleback, European stickleback, Jacksharp, New York stickleback, Pinfish, Prickley, Prickly, Prickly back, Saw-finned stickleback, Spanicle, Spannistickle, Spanny, Spannytickle, Spantickle, Sparnicle, Sparny, Sparnytickle, Spawn, Spawnykettle, Spawnytickle, Stickleback, Thornback, Thorny back, Threespine stickleback, Threespined stickleback, Tiddler, Twospine stickleback
Length: up to 12 cm.
Weight: up to 10 g.
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