U.S. Food & Drug Administration Seafood Products Research Center Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia

Genus Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Kaa - Ozz)

Thumbnail	Seafood List (Common, Genus/Species, Market)	Occurence (AFS)	Occurence (FAO)
	Skipjack Tuna Katsuwonus pelamis Tuna	A-P (20)	Cosmopolitan in tropical and warm-temperate waters; absent from the Black Sea.
	Escolar(*) Lepidocybium(*) flavobrunneum(*) Escolar(*)	A-P	Widely distributed in tropical and temperate seas of the world but probably absent from the northern Indian Ocean.
	Yellowtail Flounder Limanda ferruginea Flounder	A
	Schoolmaster Lutjanus apodus Schoolmaster	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean as far north as Massachusetts and south to Trinidad and northern Brazil. Rare north of Florida.
	Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus Snapper	A	Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast of the USA extending northward to Massachusetts, but rare north of the Carolinas.
	Gray Snapper Lutjanus griseus Snapper	A/Freshwater	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean as far north as Massachusetts and south to Rio de Janeiro. Rare north of Florida. Common off southeastern Florida and around the Antilles.
Malabar Snapper	Malabar Snapper Lutjanus malabaricus Snapper	North Indian Ocean to South Japan and New Caledonia.	Widespread in the Indo-West Pacific: from the Fiji Isles to the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, and from Australia to southern Japan.
	Pacific Snapper Lutjanus peru Snapper	Eastern Pacific Ocean (southern Calfifornia to Peru).	Eastern Pacific Ocean from Mexico to Peru.
	Caribbean Red Snapper Lutjanus purpureus Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean throughout most of the Caribbean Sea from Cuba south to northeastern Brazil. Most abundant on the continental shelf off Honduras and Guayanas; less common around the Antilles where it is confined to deeper water.
	Lane Snapper Lutjanus synagris Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean, northward to N. Carolina and south to southeastern Brazil. Most abundant around the Antilles, on the Campeche Bank off Panama and the northern coast of S. America.
	Silk Snapper Lutjanus vivanus Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean as far north as Bermuda and N. Carolina and south to central eastern Brazil. Most abundant around the Antilles and the Bahamas.
	Blue Marlin Makaira nigricans Marlin	A-P	This species is distributed mainly in the tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic. It is the most tropical of all Atlantic billfishes and probable more abundant in the western than in the eastern Atlantic, judging from the hook rates attained by commercial fisheries in both areas. Its latitudinal range, based on data from the commercial longline fishery, extends from about 40o to 45oN in the North Atlantic to 40oS in the western South Atlantic, 30oS in the central South Atlantic, and 35oS in the eastern South Atlantic.
	Haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus Haddock	A	In the eastern North Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to Spitzbergen; in the Barents Sea to Novaya Zemlya; around Iceland; rare at the south of Greenland. In the western North Atlantic from Cape May, New Jersey to the Strait of Belle Isle.
Argentine Whiting	Argentine Whiting Merluccius hubbsi Whiting	South Atlantic Ocean, Strait of Mengella to So. Brazil	East coast of southern S. America, from about 28o South to 30o South off southern Brazil, to around 54o South near the Falkland/Malvinas Isles.
Southern Blue Whiting	Southern Blue Whiting Micromesistius australis Whiting, Blue	New Zealand/South Southern Australia	There are two disjunct populations, one of which (Micromesistius australis australis) is found from about 38o South to nearly 62o South around the Falkland/Malvinas Islands and Argentine Patagonia in the western South Atlantic; also off South Georgia, South Shetland and South Orkney Islands and in the southeastern Pacific, off Chile; the other population (Micromesistius australis pallidus) lives on the various banks and rises around the South Island of New Zealand.
	Dover Sole Mircostomas pacificus Sole	P
White Perch	White Perch Morone americana Perch, White	A-F
	Sunshine Bass Morone chrysops x saxatilis Bass
	Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus chrysurus Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean, extending north to Massachusetts and southward to southeastern Brazil. Rare north of the Carolinas. Most common in the Bahamas, off southern Florida and throughout the Caribbean.
Cutthroat Trout	Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarki Trout	F-P
	Pink Salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Salmon, Pink (Humpback)	A-F-P
Chum Salmon	Chum Salmon Oncorhynchus keta Salmon, Chum (Keta)	F-P
	Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch Salmon, Coho (Silver, Medium Red)	A-F-P
	Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss Trout, Rainbow (Steelhead)	A-F-P
Sockeye Salmon	Sockeye Salmon Oncorhynchus nerka Salmon, Sockeye (Red, Blueback)	F-P
	Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Salmon, Chinook (King, Spring)	F-P
	Lingcod Ophiodon elongatus Lingcod	P