Marine Fish ID

Ratfish

Wrymouth

Lumpfish

Striped Anchovies

Small, large eye, mouth begins behind eye

Atlantic Silversides

Small, thin, white stripe, 2 dorsal

Sea raven

Depressed, fleshy tabs on chin, ragged dorsal

Sea raven

Atlantic mackerel

Finlets

Wrymouth

Black sea bass

Haddock

3 dorsals, 2 anal, black stripe down side

American eel

Sea lamprey

Sheepshead

Yellowtail flounder

Arched lateral line

Striped Sea Robin

pectorals, first few fin rays separate and claw like

Sand tiger shark

Large second dorsal and anal fin

spots

Monkfish

Spiny dogfish

Dorsal spine

Lumpfish

Tomcod

Small chin barbel, 3 dorsals and 2 anals, vermiculation

White hake

2nd dorsal very long, long anal, pelvics long and feeler like, uninterrupted lateral line

Acadian redfish

Winter flounder

Right handed

Spotted Hake

Lateral line interrupted by white dots

Longhorn sculpin

Long spines on cheek and opercle, narrow

American shad

Series of dark spots

Very sharp, large scutes

Larger

Wolffish

Large canine, long dorsal and anal fins

Bluefish

Distinctive mouth

Red hake

Very long filamentous first dorsal ray

Scup

North Atlantic Saury

Finlets, long nose

Shorthorn sculpin

short spines on opercle, broad fish

Gray triggerfish

Atlantic Pollock

3 dorsals, 2 anal, white stripe down side

Longhorn sculpin

Windowpane flounder

Delicate, very flat, left handed

Sea herring

Scutes without prominent keel

Striped killifish

Sand Lance

Three spined stickleback

Sand lance

Marine Cusk

No vermiculation

tilefish

adipose before dorsal

Alligatorfish