Great Lakes Water Life Photo Gallery

Fishes of the Great Lakes

Fish By Family and Eating Habits

Parasitic. Piscivorous. Forage Fish and Small Littoral Fish. Large Planktivores and Bottom Feeders.

Lamprey	Gar	Sculpins	Ciscos/Grayling	Livebearers	Drum
Eel	Pike	Goby	Mooneye	Killifish	Carps
Bowfin	Bass/Crappie	Darters	Silversides	Pirate Perch	Catfish
Burbot	Temperate Bass	Smelt	Sticklebacks	Minnows	Suckers
Salmonids	Walleye/Perch	Herrings	Loach	Mudminnows	Paddlefish
		Sunfish	Chubsuckers	Trout Perch	Sturgeon

Note: Some taxonomic families have been split (e.g., Minnows and Carps are both Family Cyprinidae) other families here may contain a few members (e.g., the non-parasitic native lampreys) which do not accurately fit the indicated feeding preferences. Juveniles of many species have different feeding preferences from the adults.

Great Lakes Fish Links

Fish of the Great Lakes - Wisconsin Sea Grant

Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species Site (SGNIS)

Angling Indiana: Fish Identification and Consumption Advisories

Fish Profiles

Natural History of Minnesota Fishes

A Superior Adventure - Bell Museum

Great Lakes Fishery Commission

USGS/BRD/Great Lakes Science Center

EPA/GLNPO - Great Lakes Fish

Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region: A Multimedia Digital Collection

INHS Fish Collection (includes IL distribution maps)

GLIN: Fish and Fisheries of the Great Lakes

FishBase - World-wide fish database

AmericanFishes.com - Copyrighted Commercial Art

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