List of U.S. state fish
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This is a list of U.S. state fishes:
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 | Arizona 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 | 1986[15] | |
Indiana | None[16] | |||
Iowa | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | ![]() |
2001[17] |
Kansas | ||||
Kentucky | Kentucky spotted bass | Micropterus punctulatus | ![]() |
1956[18] |
Louisiana | White crappie | Pomoxis annularis | ![]() |
1993[19] |
Maine | Landlocked Atlantic salmon | Salmo salar | ![]() |
[20] |
Maryland | 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 clarki | ![]() |
1977[28] |
Nebraska | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | ![]() |
1997[29] |
Nevada | Lahontan cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (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 | Salvelinus fontinalis | ![]() |
1991[33] |
New Mexico | Rio Grande cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies virginalis) | ![]() |
2005[34] |
New York | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | ![]() |
1975[35] |
Striped bass (marine) |
Morone saxatilis | ![]() |
[36] | |
North Carolina | Channel Bass | Sciaenops ocellatus | ![]() |
1971[37] |
Southern Appalachian brook trout (freshwater trout) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | ![]() |
2005[37] | |
North Dakota | Northern pike | Esox lucius | ![]() |
[38] |
Oklahoma | White bass | Morone chrysops | ![]() |
|
Oregon | Chinook Salmon | Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | ![]() |
1961 |
Pennsylvania | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | ![]() |
|
Rhode Island | Striped bass | Morone saxatilis | ![]() |
|
South Carolina | Striped bass | Morone saxatilis | ![]() |
1972[39] |
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[40] |
Utah | Bonneville cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies utah) | ![]() |
1997[41] |
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 | ![]() |
[42] |
West Virginia | West Virginia golden brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | ![]() |
|
Wisconsin | Muskellunge | Esox masquinongy | ![]() |
1955[43] |
Wyoming | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii | ![]() |
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Emblems: Official Freshwater Fish". www.archives.state.al.us.
- ↑ "Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Emblems: Official Saltwater Fish". www.archives.state.al.us.
- ↑ "The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce :: Student Guide :: State Symbols". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ "ASLAPR - Museum Division". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ "History and Culture - California State Symbols - California State Library". www.library.ca.gov.
- ↑ "History and Culture - California State Symbols - California State Library". www.library.ca.gov.
- ↑ "Archives -". www.colorado.gov.
- ↑ "KIDS: State Fish". www.ct.gov.
- ↑ "State of Delaware - Redirect Page". portal.delaware.gov.
- ↑ 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 from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ "HB1982 SD1". www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
- ↑ "Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter - The State of Idaho - FYI Idaho State Symbols".
- ↑ "State Symbols".
- ↑ "Article 2. State emblems", Indiana Code, retrieved 2019-05-08
- ↑ Senate Joint Resolution 2001 Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine. Iowa General Assembly.
- ↑ "Kentucky State Symbols - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives". Archived from the original on 2006-12-13. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-23. Retrieved 2012-10-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Secretary of State Kid's Page".
- ↑ "Rockfish (Striped Bass), Maryland State Fish". msa.maryland.gov.
- ↑ "General Law - Part I, Title I, Chapter 2, Section 13". malegislature.gov.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2012-10-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Minnesota Legislative Reference Library - Minnesota State Symbols". www.leg.state.mn.us.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2012-10-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "State Symbols of Missouri - Missouri Secretary of State". www.sos.mo.gov.
- ↑ "State Symbols of Missouri - Missouri Secretary of State". www.sos.mo.gov.
- ↑ 1-1-507. State fish, Montana Code, accessed 23 April 2009.
- ↑ "File Not Found - School of Natural Resources - University of Nebraska–Lincoln". snr.unl.edu.
- ↑ "Nevada Facts". Archived from the original on 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ "Section 3:20 State Freshwater Fish". www.gencourt.state.nh.us.
- ↑ "New Hampshire Almanac - NH.gov". www.nh.gov.
- ↑ "New Jersey State Fish".
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2012-10-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "New York State Fish - Brook Trout: NYS Emblems: New York State Library". www.nysl.nysed.gov.
- ↑ "New York State Emblems". Archived from the original on 2008-10-08. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 "North Carolina Secretary of State". www.sosnc.gov.
- ↑ "Home - North Dakota State Government - ND Portal". www.nd.gov.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Texas State Fish] - Guadalupe Bass". statesymbolsusa.org.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Wisconsin State Symbols". State of Wisconsin. Archived from the original on 2010-01-12. Retrieved 2011-12-19.