List of U.S. state fish
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This is a list of official and *unofficial U.S. state fishes:
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| 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 clarki (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 clarki | 1990[14] | |
| Illinois | Bluegill | Lepomis macrochirus | 1991[15] | |
| Indiana | Largemouth Bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1970[16] | |
| Iowa | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 2001[17] | |
| Kansas | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 2013[18] | |
| Kentucky | Kentucky spotted bass | Micropterus punctulatus | 1956[19] | |
| Louisiana | White crappie | Pomoxis annularis | 1993[20] | |
| Maine | Atlantic salmon | Salmo salar | [21] | |
| Maryland | Rockfish (striped bass) |
Morone saxatilis | 1965[22] | |
| Massachusetts | Cod | Gadus morhua | [23] | |
| Michigan | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1988[24] | |
| Minnesota | Walleye | Sander vitreus | 1965[25] | |
| Mississippi | Largemouth bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1974[26] | |
| Missouri | Channel catfish (fish) |
Ictalurus punctatus | 1997[27] | |
| Paddlefish (aquatic animal) |
Polyodon spathula | 1997[28] | ||
| Montana | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki | 1977[29] | |
| Nebraska | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | 1997[30] | |
| Nevada | Lahontan cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies henshawi) | [31] | |
| New Hampshire | Brook trout (freshwater) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | 1994[32] | |
| Striped bass (salt water game fish) |
Morone saxatilis | 1994[33] | ||
| New Jersey | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | 1991[34] | |
| New Mexico | Rio Grande cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (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 | Walleye | Sander vitreus | ||
| 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[40] | |
| 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[41] | |
| Utah | Bonneville cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies utah) | 1997[42] | |
| 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[43] | |
| West Virginia | West Virginia golden brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | ||
| Wisconsin | Muskellunge | Esox masquinongy | 1955[44] | |
| Wyoming | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii |
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See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Official Alabama Fresh Water Fish
- ^ Official Alabama Saltwater Fish
- ^ The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce :: Student Guide :: State Symbols
- ^ ASLAPR - Museum Division
- ^ 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
- ^ HB1982 SD1
- ^ Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter - The State of Idaho - FYI Idaho State Symbols
- ^ [1]
- ^ Georgia State Symbols
- ^ Senate Joint Resolution 2001. Iowa General Assembly.
- ^ [2]
- ^ Kentucky State Symbols - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- ^ http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/around/facts/facts-E.htm
- ^ Secretary of State Kid's Page
- ^ Rockfish (Striped Bass), Maryland State Fish
- ^ M.G.L. - Chapter 2, Section 13
- ^ http://www.senate.michigan.gov/kidspage/trout.pdf
- ^ Minnesota Legislative Reference Library - Minnesota State Symbols
- ^ http://www.its.state.ms.us/et/portal/MSSymbols/symbols.htm
- ^ Office of the Secretary of State, Missouri
- ^ Office of the Secretary of State, Missouri
- ^ 1-1-507. State fish, Montana Code, accessed 23 April 2009.
- ^ http://csd.unl.edu/general/statesymbols.asp
- ^ Nevada Facts
- ^ Section 3:20 State Freshwater Fish
- ^ NH.gov - New Hampshire Almanac - State Animal
- ^ New Jersey State Fish
- ^ http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/05%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0013.html
- ^ NY State Emblems - State Fish
- ^ New York State Emblems
- ^ a b North Carolina State Symbols
- ^ nd.gov: Official Portal for North Dakota State Government
- ^ "SC Statehouse Student's web page, State Symbols and Emblems". South Carolina General Assembly. Archived from the original on 2007-06-22. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
- ^ [3]
- ^ Utah Symbols - Bonneville Cutthroat Trout 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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