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Northern Pike

Walleye

Brook Trout

White Sucker

Striped Bass

Lake Trout

Chain Pickerel

Rainbow Trout

White Perch

Muskellunge

Common Carp

Hybrid Striped Bass

Landlocked Atlantic Salmon

Redfin Pickerel

Brown Trout

Yellow Perch

White Crappie

Channel Catfish

Redbreast Sunfish

Largemouth Bass

Black Crappie

Pumpkinseed Sunfish

Smallmouth Bass

White Catfish

Brown Bullhead

Bluegill Sunfish

Illustrations: Duane Raver/USFWS

HERRING

Eye diameter greater than snout length

No teeth on roof of mouth

Dorsal fin forward of midlength

Deep body

Alewife

Large mouth

Upper jaw close to rear edge of eye

May have a line of spots

Largest in the herring family

American Shad

Teeth on roof of mouth

Dorsal fin at midlength

Narrow body

Atlantic Herring

Eye diameter less than snout length

No teeth on roof of mouth

Dorsal fin forward of midlength

Blueback Herring

Lower jaw projects well beyond upper jaw when mouth closed

Hickory Shad

Round snout overhangs closed mouth

Long, filamentous projection from last ray of dorsal fin

Gizzard Shad

Alewife, American Shad, Blueback Herring and Hickory Shad illustrations ©Duane Raver; Atlantic Herring illustration ©Victor Young/NH. Fish and Game Department;
Gizzard Shad illustration courtesy of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ©2012.

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