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Chesapeake Bay Fish Species

croaker fish
Croaker

 

This page includes overviews of saltwater, freshwater, and anadromous fish species that occur in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

A few saltwater species occupy the estuary year round while others migrate seasonally. A variety of freshwater species are found in rivers, creeks, and streams of the Chesapeake Bay region.

Saltwater Fish

Atlantic Cutlassfish (ribbonfish)

Black Drum

Black Sea Bass

Blackfin Tuna

Bluefish

Cobia

Croaker

Gray Triggerfish

Gray Trout (weakfish, seatrout)

Kingfish – Roundheads

Lizardfish

Northern Puffer (swelling toad)

Oyster Toadfish

Pigfish

Scup – Porgy

Skates and Rays

Silver Perch

Snowy Grouper

Spadefish

Spanish Mackerel

Speckled Trout

Spot

Striped Bass

Striped Burrfish

Flounder

Tarpon

Freshwater Fish

Largemouth Bass

Smallmouth Bass

Sunfish Species

Black Crappie

Chain Pickerel

Walleye

White Perch

Yellow Perch

Blue Catfish

Channel Catfish

White Catfish

Brown Bullhead (catfish)

Freshwater Drum

Common Carp

Bowfin

Longnose Gar

Northern Snakehead

Anadromous Fish

American Shad

Hickory Shad

River Herring

Atlantic Sturgeon

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Chesapeake Bay

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