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Official Fish List State-Fish Art Contest Official Fish List Freshwater Fish Species SUNFISH FAMILY SALMONIDAE (SALMON) FAMILY Largemouth Bass Landlocked Atlantic Salmon Florida Largemouth Bass Blueback Char Kentucky Spotted Bass Rainbow Trout White Bass (Sand Bass) Apache Trout—W Smallmouth Bass California Golden Trout—W Guadalupe Bass Bull Trout—W Longear Sunfish Arctic grayling—W Bluegill Gila Trout—W PIKE FAMILY Brook Trout Muskellunge Eastern Brook Trout Northern Pike Southern Appalachian Brook Trout West Virginia Golden Brook Trout PERCH FAMILY White Perch Cutthroat Trout Walleye Greenback Cutthroat Trout—W Black Spotted Cutthroat Trout CATFISH FAMILY Lahontan Cutthroat Trout—W Channel Catfish New Mexico (Rio Grande) Cutthroat Trout—W Yaqui Catfish Bonneville Cutthroat Trout—W Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout—W GAR FAMILY Westslope Cutthroat Trout—W Alligator Gar Colorado River Cutthroat Trout —W Coastal Cutthroat Trout —W CYPRINIDAE (MINNOWS & CARP) FAMILY Bonytail Chub Colorado Pikeminnow State-Fish Art Contest Official Fish List Saltwater Fish Species Anadromous Fish Species TARPON FAMILY SALMONIDAE (Salmon) FAMILY Fighting tarpon - GH King salmon (Chinook) - FM DRUM FAMILY Atlantic salmon - FM Red drum (Channel bass) - GH Steelhead trout - FM Weakfish - GH Arctic char - FM, W Spotted seatrout - GH Sea trout- FM Salmo trutta trutta Caspian brown trout - FM Salmo trutta caspius BILLFISHES FAMILY Brown trout - FM Salmo Trutta Atlantic sailfish - GH Taimen - FM Hucho taimen White marlin - GH Japanese huchen - FM Hucho perryi Atlantic blue marlin - GH Chum salmon- FM Oncorhynchus keta Arctic cisco - FM Coregonus autumnalis TRIGGERFISH FAMILY Humuhumunukunukuapua’a - GH HERRING FAMILY American shad - FM COD FAMILY Allis shad- FM Alosa alosa Atlantic cod - GH Hilsa shad- FM Tenualosa ilisha DAMSEL FISH FAMILY TEMPERATE BASS FAMILY Garibaldi - GH Striped bass (Rockfish) - FM DOLPHINFISH FAMILY PADDLEFISH FAMILY Dorado (Mahi-mahi) - FM, GH American paddlefish - FM ALESTIDAE (African tetra) FAMILY Goliath tigerfish- FM Hydrocynus goliath State-Fish Art Contest Official Fish List Anadromous Fish Species (Continued) EEL FAMILY LATIDAE (Lates perche) FAMILY African longfin eel—FM Anguilla mossambica Nile perch - FM Lates niloticus European eel - FM Anguilla anguilla Barramundi - FM Lates calcarifer Longfin eel - FM Anguilla reinhardtii Shortfin eel - FM Anguilla australis ELEOTRIDAE (Sleeper goby) FAMILY Common bully - FM Gobiomorphus Cotidianus Golden perch- FM Macquaria ambigua Australian bass - FM Macquaria novemaculeata GALAXIIDAE FAMILY Common galaxias- FM Galaxias maculatus PIMELODIDAE (Long-whiskered Catfish) FAMILY Piraiba—FM Brachyplatystoma filamentosum PERCICHTHYIDAE (Temperate perch) FAMILY Pintado—FM Pseudoplatystoma corruscans Australian bass- FM Macquaria novemaculeata Murray cod - FM Maccullochella peelii PROCHILODONTIDAE (Flannel-mouthed characins) FAMILY Curimbata—FM Prochilodus Lineatus NORTHERN LAMPREY FAMILY Sea lamprey - FM Petromyzon marinus CYPRINIDAE FAMILY Senegalese carp - FM Labeo senegalensis STICKLEBACK FAMILY Three-spined stickleback - FM Gasterosteus aculeatus STURGEON FAMILY Atlantic sturgeon - FM Acipenser sturio Russian sturgeon - FM Acipenser gueldenstaedtii SHARK CATFISH FAMILY Mekong giant catfish- FM Pangasianodon gigas Chinese pangasius catfish - FM Pangasius krempfi State-Fish Art Contest Official Fish List Specialty Award Key FM— Fish Migration Award Species GH—Guy Harvey Award Species W—Western Native Trout Award Species .
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