List of U.S. state fish
This is a list of official and unofficial U.S. state fishes:
Table
State | Fish | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Largemouth bass (fresh water) |
Micropterus salmoides | 1975[1] | |
Fighting tarpon (salt water) |
Megalops atlanticus | 1955[2] | ||
Alaska | King salmon | Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | 1962[3] | |
Arizona | Apache trout | Oncorhynchus gilae (subspecies apache) | 1986[4] | |
Arkansas | ||||
California | Golden trout (fresh water) |
Oncorhynchus mykiss (subspecies aguabonita) | 1947[5] | |
Garibaldi (salt water) |
Hypsypops rubicundus | 1995[6] | ||
Colorado | Greenback cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii (subspecies stomias) | 1994[7] | |
Connecticut | American shad | Alosa sapidissima | 2003[8] | |
Delaware | Weakfish | Cynoscion regalis | 1981[9] | |
Florida | Florida largemouth bass (fresh water) |
Micropterus salmoides (subspecies floridanus) |
2007[10] | |
Atlantic sailfish (salt water) |
Istiophorus albicans | 2007[11] | ||
Georgia | Largemouth bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1970[12] | |
Hawaii | Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa | Rhinecanthus rectangulus | 2006[13] | |
Idaho | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii | 1990[14] | |
Illinois | Bluegill | Lepomis macrochirus | 1986[15] | |
Indiana | ? | ? | ? | |
Iowa | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 2001[16] | |
Kansas | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 2018[17] | |
Kentucky | Kentucky spotted bass | Micropterus punctulatus | 1956[18] | |
Louisiana | White crappie | Pomoxis annularis | 1993[19] | |
Maine | Landlocked Atlantic salmon | Salmo salar sebago | [20] | |
Maryland | Rockfish (striped bass) |
Morone saxatilis | 1965[21] | |
Massachusetts | Cod | Gadus morhua | [22] | |
Michigan | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1988[23] | |
Minnesota | Walleye | Sander vitreus | 1965[24] | |
Mississippi | Largemouth bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1974[25] | |
Missouri | Channel catfish (fish) |
Ictalurus punctatus | 1997[26] | |
Paddlefish (aquatic animal) |
Polyodon spathula | 1997[27] | ||
Montana | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii | 1977[28] | |
Nebraska | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 1997[29] | |
Nevada | Lahontan cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii (subspecies henshawi) | [30] | |
New Hampshire | Brook trout (freshwater) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | 1994[31] | |
Striped bass (salt water game fish) |
Morone saxatilis | 1994[32] | ||
New Jersey | Brook trout (freshwater) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | 1991[33] | |
Striped bass (salt water game fish) |
Morone saxatilis | 2017[34] | ||
New Mexico | Rio Grande cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii (subspecies virginalis) | 2005[35] | |
New York | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1975[36] | |
Striped bass (marine) |
Morone saxatilis | [37] | ||
North Carolina | Channel Bass | Sciaenops ocellatus | 1971[38] | |
Southern Appalachian brook trout (freshwater trout) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | 2005[38] | ||
North Dakota | Northern pike | Esox lucius | [39] | |
Ohio | None recognized[40] | |||
Oklahoma | White bass | Morone chrysops | ||
Oregon | Chinook salmon | Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | 1961 | |
Pennsylvania | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1970 | |
Rhode Island | Striped bass | Morone saxatilis | ||
South Carolina | Striped bass | Morone saxatilis | 1972[41] | |
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[42] | |
Utah | Bonneville cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii (subspecies utah) | 1997[43] | |
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[44] | |
West Virginia | West Virginia golden brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | ||
Wisconsin | Muskellunge | Esox masquinongy | 1955[45] | |
Wyoming | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii |
See also
Notes
- ^ Official Alabama Fresh Water Fish
- ^ Official Alabama Saltwater Fish
- ^ The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce :: Student Guide :: State Symbols Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ASLAPR - Museum Division Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ California State Library - History and Culture - State Symbols
- ^ California State Library - History and Culture - State Symbols
- ^ Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA) Division of Information Technologies (DoIT)
- ^ KIDS: State Fish
- ^ Delaware Facts and Symbols - State Animals
- ^ Official state freshwater fish. The 2007 Florida Statutes: Title IV, Chapter 15.036.
- ^ Official state saltwater fish. The 2007 Florida Statutes: Title IV, Chapter 15.037
- ^ Georgia State Symbols Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ HB1982 SD1
- ^ Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter - The State of Idaho - FYI Idaho State Symbols Archived 2010-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [1]
- ^ Senate Joint Resolution 2001. Iowa General Assembly.
- ^ https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-symbols/17169 and "Kansas one step closer to having a state fish" Topeka Capital Journal. Katie Moore, Mar 20, 2018 https://www.cjonline.com/news/20180320/kansas-one-step-closer-to-having-state-fish
- ^ Kentucky State Symbols - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Archived 2006-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-23. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
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- ^ Rockfish (Striped Bass), Maryland State Fish
- ^ M.G.L. - Chapter 2, Section 13
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
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- ^ Office of the Secretary of State, Missouri
- ^ 1-1-507. State fish Archived 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine, Montana Code, accessed 23 April 2009.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
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- ^ Section 3:20 State Freshwater Fish
- ^ NH.gov - New Hampshire Almanac - State Animal
- ^ New Jersey State Fish
- ^ Pugliese, Nicholas (August 7, 2017). "It's official: 'Garden State' is New Jersey's slogan". NorthJersey.com. USA Today. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/05%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0013.html
- ^ NY State Emblems - State Fish
- ^ New York State Emblems Archived 2008-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b North Carolina State Symbols
- ^ nd.gov: Official Portal for North Dakota State Government
- ^ "Ohio Secretary of State, Symbols of Ohio". Ohio Secretary of State. Archived from the original on 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
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- ^ [2]
- ^ Utah Symbols - Bonneville Cutthroat Trout Archived 2008-03-14 at the Wayback Machine from utah.gov "Pioneer - Utah's Online Library" page. Retrieved on 2008-03-25
- ^ "Symbols of Washington State". Washington State Legislature. Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
- ^ "Wisc. Stat. § 1.10(3)(g)". State of Wisconsin. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
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