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Marine and Anadramous Fish
Marine fish spend their entire life in salt water. Anadromous fish are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean to grow into adults, and then return to fresh water to spawn. We have jurisdiction over most marine and anadromous fish listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Humphead Wrasse
(Cheilinus undulatus)
Photo: Brian Zgliczynski, NOAA
Chinook Salmon
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Photo: NOAA
Smalltooth Sawfish
(Pristis pectinata)
Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Bocaccio
(Sebastes paucispinis)
Photo: NOAA
Sand Tiger Shark
(Carcharias taurus)
Photo: NOAA's National Ocean Service
- adriatic sturgeon
- African coelacanth
- Alabama shad
- alewife
- angular angel shark
- Argentine angel shark
- Atlantic bluefin tuna
- Atlantic halibut
- Atlantic salmon
- Atlantic sturgeon
- Atlantic wolffish
- Banggai cardinalfish
- basking shark
- bigeye thresher shark
- blueback herring
- bocaccio
- bumphead parrotfish
- canary rockfish
- caribbean electric ray
- chinese sturgeon
- chinook salmon
- chum salmon
- coho salmon
- common angelshark-
- common thresher shark
- cowcod
- cusk
- daggernose shark
- dusky shark
- dwarf sawfish
- dwarf seahorse
- eulachon
- european sturgeon
- great hammerhead shark
- green sawfish
- green sturgeon
- gulf sturgeon
- Harrissons dogfish shark
- humphead wrasse
- kaluga sturgeon
- key silverside
- largetooth sawfish
- mangrove rivulus
- manta rays
- narrownose smoothhound shark
- narrow sawfish
- nassau grouper
- oceanic whitetip shark
- opossum pipefish
- pacific hake
- pacific herring
- porbeagle shark
- rainbow smelt
- sakhalin sturgeon
- sand tiger shark
- sawback angelshark
- scalloped hammerhead shark
- shortnose sturgeon
- smalltooth sawfish
- smoothback angelshark
- smooth hammerhead shark
- sockeye salmon
- speckled hind
- steelhead trout
- striped croaker
- striped smoothhound shark
- thorny skate
- totoaba
- warsaw grouper
- yelloweye rockfish
For information on other fish managed by NOAA Fisheries, such as commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries, visit the site of the Office of Sustainable Fisheries.
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Updated: June 29, 2016
Fisheries Service
Inside NOAA Fisheries
