List of U.S. state fish
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 | .jpg) |
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 | Largemouth Bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1970[12] | |
| Iowa | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus |  |
2001[16] |
| Kansas | ||||
| Kentucky | Kentucky spotted bass | Micropterus punctulatus |  |
1956[17] |
| Louisiana | White crappie | Pomoxis annularis |  |
1993[18] |
| Maine | Landlocked Atlantic salmon | Salmo salar |  |
[19] |
| Maryland | Striped Bass | Morone saxatilis |  |
1965[20] |
| Massachusetts | Cod | Gadus morhua |  |
[21] |
| Michigan | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis |  |
1988[22] |
| Minnesota | Walleye | Sander vitreus |  |
1965[23] |
| Mississippi | Largemouth bass | Micropterus salmoides | 1974[24] | |
| Missouri | Channel catfish (fish) |
Ictalurus punctatus |  |
1997[25] |
| Paddlefish (aquatic animal) |
Polyodon spathula |  |
1997[26] | |
| Montana | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki |  |
1977[27] |
| Nebraska | Channel catfish | Ictalurus punctatus | |
1997[28] |
| Nevada | Lahontan cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies henshawi) | [29] | |
| New Hampshire | Brook trout (freshwater) |
Salvelinus fontinalis | |
1994[30] |
| Striped bass (salt water game fish) |
Morone saxatilis | |
1994[31] | |
| New Jersey | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | |
1991[32] |
| New Mexico | Rio Grande cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies virginalis) | |
2005[33] |
| New York | Brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | |
1975[34] |
| Striped bass (marine) |
Morone saxatilis | |
[35] | |
| North Carolina | Channel Bass | Sciaenops ocellatus |  |
1971[36] |
| Southern Appalachian brook trout (freshwater trout) |
Salvelinus fontinalis |  |
2005[36] | |
| North Dakota | Northern pike | Esox lucius |  |
[37] |
| 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[38] |
| 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[39] |
| Utah | Bonneville cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarki (subspecies utah) |  |
1997[40] |
| 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 |
[41] |
| West Virginia | West Virginia golden brook trout | Salvelinus fontinalis | |
|
| Wisconsin | Muskellunge | Esox masquinongy |  |
1955[42] |
| Wyoming | Cutthroat trout | Oncorhynchus clarkii | |
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Georgia State Symbols
- ↑ HB1982 SD1
- ↑ Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter - The State of Idaho - FYI Idaho State Symbols
- ↑ State Symbols
- ↑ Senate Joint Resolution 2001. Iowa General Assembly.
- ↑ 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://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/05%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0013.html
- ↑ NY State Emblems - State Fish
- ↑ New York State Emblems
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 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.
- ↑ http://statesymbolsusa.org/Texas/Fish_Guadalupe_Bass.html
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
