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Albacore
Albacore (Thunnus alalunga), also called longfinned tuna or germon, is a cosmopolitan tuna with pectoral fins half its body length; managed as separate Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean stocks, currently not overfished, and the fish behind canned 'white' tuna.
Alewife (fish)
Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), a small anadromous Atlantic herring also called river herring or sawbelly; invasive and dominant forage fish in the Great Lakes, commercially harvested in Maine, and depleted along the US Atlantic coast.
Alosa aestivalis
Alosa aestivalis, the blueback herring (alose d'été), is an anadromous Atlantic herring from Nova Scotia to Florida, one of two "river herring" with the alewife; distinguished by a black peritoneum, IUCN Vulnerable, ESA listing not warranted in 2019.
Alosa alosa
Alosa alosa, the allis shad, is an anadromous Alosidae herring of the northeast Atlantic from Norway to Morocco, distinguished from twaite shad by 85-155 gill rakers; now IUCN Critically Endangered after range collapse.
Alosa fallax
Alosa fallax, the twaite shad (alose feinte, cheppia), is an anadromous clupeid fish from Iceland to the Black Sea; globally Least Concern but Vulnerable in Spain and Italy, threatened by river barriers, pollution, and overfishing.
Alosa sapidissima
Alosa sapidissima, the American shad (alose savoureuse), an anadromous herring native from Labrador to Florida, introduced to the Pacific in 1871; Atlantic stocks depleted, Columbia River runs 2-4 million adults yearly.
Amberjack
Amberjack, large predatory jacks of the genus Seriola (Carangidae), including greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) and farmed Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), a sashimi staple and Japan's most cultured marine finfish.
Anchovy
Anchovy, family Engraulidae (Engraulis species), small schooling forage fish; Peruvian anchoveta supports the world's largest single-species fishery, 5.3 million tonnes caught in 2023, also salt-cured food and fishmeal source.
Anglerfish
Anglerfishes (Lophiiformes) are marine ray-finned fishes that attract prey with a lure, a dorsal-fin spine modified into a baited stalk; about 325 species live from shallow seas to the deep ocean.
Aphanopus carbo
Aphanopus carbo, the black scabbardfish (peixe-espada-preto), is an elongated bathypelagic cutlassfish (Trichiuridae) of the North Atlantic at 200–2,300 m, basis of the Madeira longline fishery, heavily infected with Anisakis larvae, and nearly indistinguishable externally from A. intermedius.
Atherinidae
Atherinidae (Old World silversides, true silversides) is a family of small, silvery Atheriniform fishes erected by Risso in 1827; type genus Atherina, inshore marine and brackish waters, taxonomy unstable.
Atlantic blue marlin
The Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) is a large, highly migratory billfish inhabiting tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters, prized as a game fish that can exceed 12 feet and 2,000 pounds.
Atlantic bluefin tuna
Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), also called northern or giant bluefin, is the largest tuna, reaching 13 ft and 2,000 lb. Managed by ICCAT as eastern and western stocks split at 45°W, with quotas, a 2022 management procedure, and recent recovery in UK waters.
Atlantic mackerel
Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), also called common or Boston mackerel, is a schooling North Atlantic pelagic fish up to 16.5 inches and 2.2 pounds. U.S. stock rebuilding; Northeast Atlantic stock below Blim in 2025 amid coastal-state quota disputes.
Auxis rochei
Auxis rochei, the bullet tuna (basionym Scomber rochei Risso, 1810), is a small neritic Scombridae tuna of the Atlantic, Indian, and western Pacific Oceans including the Mediterranean; IUCN Least Concern globally but critically overfished in the central Mediterranean.
Auxis thazard
Auxis thazard, frigate tuna or frigate mackerel, is a small scombrid tuna (Scombridae, Thunnini) of tropical and subtropical seas; distinguished from bullet tuna A. rochei by oblique wavy back markings, fished commercially, IUCN Least Concern.
Barracuda
Barracuda, Sphyraena (Sphyraenidae): elongated predatory tropical marine fish, 27-28 living species in three groups, including the great barracuda Sphyraena barracuda, up to 2 m, known for speed, ciguatera risk, and rare attacks on divers.
Barreleye
Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma), also called spookfish, a small deep-sea fish of the northeastern Pacific at 600–800 m with tubular green eyes inside a transparent head dome; eyes rotate forward to feed, confirmed by MBARI in 2009.
Belone belone
Belone belone, the garfish or garpike, a slender needlefish (Belonidae) of the eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea, with beak-like jaws, green biliverdin bones, 75-84 vertebrae, up to 104 cm, IUCN Least Concern.
Black marlin
Black marlin (Istiompax indica, formerly Makaira indica), a large Indo-Pacific billfish reaching over 4.48 m and 700 kg, identified by rigid pectoral fins that cannot fold flat; a major gamefish and tuna-fishery bycatch species, IUCN Data Deficient.
Bluefish
Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) is a schooling marine predator found in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide, known for sharp teeth, voracious feeding, and importance to commercial and recreational fisheries.
Boreogadus saida
Boreogadus saida, the Arctic cod or polar cod (Russian сайка), is a small gadid fish, the sole species of Boreogadus, circumpolar in ice-covered Arctic seas, the Arctic Ocean's most abundant forage fish and a keystone prey for seals, seabirds, and cod.
Brevoortia tyrannus
Brevoortia tyrannus, Atlantic menhaden (bunker, pogie), a schooling clupeid filter feeder from Nova Scotia to Florida supporting the largest US Atlantic coast fishery by volume; managed by ASMFC with ecological reference points, not overfished as of 2025, 2026 TAC 186,840 mt.
Capelin
Capelin (Mallotus villosus) is a small semelparous pelagic forage fish of Arctic seas, key prey for cod, seabirds, and marine mammals; major stocks in the Barents Sea, Iceland-Greenland, Newfoundland, and Alaska, managed by escapement strategies.
Carangidae
Carangidae, the jacks and pompanos (trevallies, amberjacks, scads), is a family of about 147 marine fish species in order Carangiformes, found in Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, commercially important and taxonomically difficult.
Caranx hippos
Caranx hippos, the crevalle jack (also Scomber hippos), is a large Atlantic carangid gamefish reaching 124 cm and 32 kg, a schooling piscivore of continental shelves, IUCN Least Concern.
Caranx vinctus
Caranx vinctus (cocinero, striped jack, barred jack), a Carangidae jack of the tropical Eastern Pacific from Southern California to Peru; 37-38 cm max, coastal to 50 m, commercial fishery, IUCN Least Concern.
Centrolophus niger
Centrolophus niger, the black ruff or rudderfish, is a large oceanic centrolophid fish of temperate Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Southern Hemisphere waters, reaching 150 cm, with juveniles near jellyfish at the surface and adults at 300-700 m.
Ceratioidei
Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes, is a suborder of Lophiiformes with 11 families and about 162 species, defined by dwarfed parasitic males, bacterial bioluminescent lures, and bathypelagic habitats.
Chelon auratus
Chelon auratus, the golden grey mullet (formerly Liza aurata), is a Mugilidae fish of the eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea, identified by a golden gill-cover spot, commercially fished, and IUCN Near Threatened since 2022.