Fishes of North Sea

Fishes of North Sea. Weight: 800 g and bigger. Mouth: lower mouth. Coloring: Back and belly in different colors

Lesser redfish

sebastes viviparus
Norway haddock, Norway redfish, Norwegian redfish, Ocean perch, Redfish, Rosefish

Length: up to 67 cm.

Weight: up to 1 kg.

Striped red mullet

mullus surmuletus
Red mullet, Red stripped mullet, Striped mullet, Surmullet, Woodcock of the sea

Length: up to 40 cm.

Weight: up to 1 kg.

Common dab

limanda limanda
Dab, Garve, Garve fluke, Sand dab

Length: up to 40 cm.

Weight: up to 1 kg.

Three-bearded rockling

gaidropsarus vulgaris

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 1.2 kg.

Black seabream

spondyliosoma cantharus
Black bream, Black sea bream, Black sea-bream, Old wife

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 1.2 kg.

Blackmouth catshark

galeus melastomus
Black-mouthed dogfish, Blackmouth cat shark, Blackmouthed dogfish

Length: up to 79 cm.

Weight: up to 1.4 kg.

Poor cod

trisopterus minutus
Poor-cod

Length: up to 40 cm.

Weight: up to 1.4 kg.

Morocco Dentex

dentex maroccanus
Morocco dentex

Length: up to 45 cm.

Weight: up to 1.4 kg.

Blackbelly rosefish

helicolenus dactylopterus
Blue-mouth, Blue-mouth redfish, Bluemouth rockfish, Jac, Jacopever, Rockfish

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 1.6 kg.

Black grenadier

coryphaenoides rupestris
Blunt-nose rattail, Rock grenadier, Roundnose grenadier

Length: up to 1.1 m.

Weight: up to 1.7 kg.

Nova Scotia skate

rajella fyllae
Round ray, Round skate, Sandy skate

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 1.743 kg.

Piper gurnard

trigla lyra
Gurnard, Lyre gurnard, Pipe gurnard, Sea robin

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 1.797 kg.

Bib

trisopterus luscus
Pout, Pout whiting, Pouting, Whiting-pout

Length: up to 46 cm.

Weight: up to 1.8 kg.

Greater weever

trachinus draco
Greater weaver, Greater weever fish

Length: up to 53 cm.

Weight: up to 1.9 kg.

Coregonus lavaretus

coregonus oxyrinchus
Houting

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 2 kg.

Small-spotted catshark

scyliorhinus canicula
Dogfish, Fay dog, Lesser spotted dogfish, Rough dog, Rough hound, Sandy dogfish, Small spotted dog, Small-spotted cat shark, Small-spotted dogfish, Smallspotted catshark

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 2.1 kg.

Sea lamprey

petromyzon marinus
Eel sucker, Great sea lamprey, Green lamprey, Green sea lamprey, Lake Lamprey, Lamper, Lamprey eel, Marine lamprey, Nannie nine eyes, Nine eyes, Shad lamprey, Spotted lamprey, Stone sucker, Sucker

Length: up to 1.2 m.

Weight: up to 2.3 kg.

Rabbit fish

chimaera monstrosa
Chimaera, Ghost shark, King of the herring, Rabbit fish(Rat-tail, Rabbit-fish, Rabbitfish, Rat fish, Ratfish, Rattail, Sea rat

Length: up to 1.5 m.

Weight: up to 2.5 kg.

Witch (righteye flounder)

glyptocephalus cynoglossus
Craig fluke, Gray sole, Grey sole, Grey-sole, Whitch, Witch flounder

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 2.5 kg.

Marbled electric ray

torpedo marmorata
Common crampfish, Marbled torpedo, Numbfish, Spotted torpedo

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 3 kg.

Lemon sole

microstomus kitt
Lemon dab, Lemon fish, Mary sole, Smear dab, Sweet fluke

Length: up to 65 cm.

Weight: up to 3 kg.

Merlangius

merlangius merlangus
English whiting, European whiting, Whiting

Length: up to 91 cm.

Weight: up to 3.1 kg.

Red gurnard

aspitrigla cuculus
East Atlantic red gurnard, Soldier

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 3.368 kg.

Beard

phycis blennoides
Forked hake, Grater forkbeard, Greater fork beard, Greater fork-beard, Greater forkbeard

Length: up to 1.1 m.

Weight: up to 3.5 kg.

Pilot fish

naucrates ductor
Pilot-fish, Pilotfish, Sucker

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 3.6 kg.

Alfonsino

beryx decadactylus
Berix, Beryx, Broad alfonsin, Broad alfonsino, Cuvier's berycid fish, Imperador, Long-finned beryx, Longfinned beryx, Red bream, Red Bream

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 4 kg.

Allis shad

alosa alosa
Alice shad, Allice shad, Mayfish, Shad

Length: up to 83 cm.

Weight: up to 4 kg.

Ballan wrasse

labrus bergylta

Length: up to 66 cm.

Weight: up to 4.4 kg.

Smalleyed ray

raja microocellata
Owl ray, Painted ray, Painted skate, Small-eyed ray, Smalleyed skate

Length: up to 87 cm.

Weight: up to 4.5 kg.

Beaked redfish

sebastes mentella
Deepwater redfish, Deepwater rosefish, Redfish

Length: up to 77 cm.

Weight: up to 4.622 kg.

Starry smooth-hound

mustelus asterias
Smooth-hound, Starry smooth hound, Starry smoothhound, Starry smoothound, Stellate smooth-hound

Length: up to 1.4 m.

Weight: up to 4.8 kg.

Blackspot seabream

pagellus bogaraveo
Common sea bream, Gilled sea bream, Gunner, Red bream, Red sea-bream, Red seabream, Sea-bream

Length: up to 70 cm.

Weight: up to 5 kg.

Red gurnard

chelidonichthys cuculus
East Atlantic red gurnard, Soldier

Length: up to 75 cm.

Weight: up to 5.5 kg.

Atlantic pomfret

brama brama
Angel, Angel fish, Angelfish, Atlantic Pomfret, Black sea bream, Common pomfret, Lestia, Ray's bream, Ray's sea bream

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 6 kg.

American plaice

hippoglossoides platessoides
Canadian plaice, Long rough dab

Length: up to 83 cm.

Weight: up to 6.4 kg.

Tub gurnard

chelidonichthys lucerna
Sapphirine gurnard, Searobin, Tube-fish, Tubfish, Yellow gurnard, Yellow-gurnard

Length: up to 82 cm.

Weight: up to 6.6 kg.

European plaice

pleuronectes platessa
Flatfish, Fluke, Hen fish, Plaice, Plaice-fluke

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 7 kg.

Undulate ray

raja undulata
Painted ray, Undulate painted ray, Undulate skate

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 7.244 kg.

Birdbeak dogfish

deania calceus
Brier shark, Deepwater dogfish, Dorian Grey, Dorian grey shark, Platypus shark, Shovel nosed shark, Shovelnose dogfish, Shovelnose spiny dogfish, Thompsons deepsea dogfish, Thompsons shark

Length: up to 1.27 m.

Weight: up to 8.7 kg.

Spiny dogfish

squalus acanthias
Blue dog, Common spiny fish, Darwen salmon, Dog fish, Dogfish, Grayfish, Pacific dogfish, Piked dogfish, Rock salmon, Southern spiny dogfish, Spiky dog, Spiny Dogfish, Spotted spiny dogfish, Spring dogfish, Spur dogfish, Spurdog, Victorian spotted dogfish, White-spotted dogfish, White-spotted spurdog, Whitespotted dogfish

Length: up to 1.6 m.

Weight: up to 9.1 kg.

Cyclopterus

cyclopterus lumpus
Hen-fish, Kiark-varrey, Lump, Lumpfish, Lumpsucker

Length: up to 61 cm.

Weight: up to 9.5 kg.

Knifetooth dogfish

scymnodon ringens

Length: up to 1.1 m.

Weight: up to 9.998 kg.

Butterfly skate

leucoraja naevus
Cuckoo ray, Cuckoo skate, Sandy ray

Length: up to 81 cm.

Weight: up to 10 kg.

Common stingray

dasyatis pastinaca
Blue stingray, Sting ray, Stingray

Length: up to 70 cm.

Weight: up to 10.2 kg.

Linen skate

rajella lintea
Pale ray, Sailray, Sailskate, Sharp-nosed skate, Sharpnose skate, White skate

Length: up to 1.25 m.

Weight: up to 11.2 kg.

Thorny skate

amblyraja radiata
Artic thorny skate, Atlantic pricly skate, Maiden ray, Miller, Miller ray, Starry ray, Starry skate, Thornback, Thorny back

Length: up to 1.05 m.

Weight: up to 11.4 kg.

Sailfin roughshark

oxynotus paradoxus
Angular rough shark, Kite-fin shark, Sailfin rough shark

Length: up to 1.2 m.

Weight: up to 13.181 kg.

Common eagle ray

myliobatis aquila
Common bull ray, Coryphaena hippurus Lambouka Eagle ray, Eagleray, Mill skate, Sea eagle, Spotted eagle ray, Toadfish, Whip ray, Whipray

Length: up to 1.83 m.

Weight: up to 14.5 kg.

Shagreen ray

leucoraja fullonica
Dun cow, Fuller's ray, Fuller's shagreen ray, Raie-chardon, Rough flapper, Shagreen skate

Length: up to 1.2 m.

Weight: up to 15 kg.

Bream

sebastes norvegicus
Brim, Brin, Golden redfish, Norway haddock, Ocean perch, Pinkbelly rosefish, Red-fish, Redfish, Rosefish, Sébaste

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 15 kg.

Gilt-head bream

sparus aurata
Gilt head, Gilt head bream, Gilt-head seabream, Gilthead, Gilthead bream, Gilthead seabream, Silver seabream, Snapper

Length: up to 70 cm.

Weight: up to 17.2 kg.

Haddock

melanogrammus aeglefinus
Seed haddock

Length: up to 1.1 m.

Weight: up to 19 kg.

Common smooth-hound

mustelus mustelus
Gray mouth dog, Houndshark, Smooth dogfish, Smooth hound, Smooth-hound, Smooth-hound shark, Smoothhound, Stellate smooth-hound, Sweet William

Length: up to 2 m.

Weight: up to 20 kg.

Atlantic wolffish

anarhichas lupus
Cat-fish, Catfish, Ocean whitefish, Sea-cat, Wolf-fish, Wolffish

Length: up to 1.5 m.

Weight: up to 23.6 kg.

Angular roughshark

oxynotus centrina
Angular rough shark, Flatiron shark, Humantin

Length: up to 1.5 m.

Weight: up to 25 kg.

Slender sunfish

ranzania laevis
Dwarf sunfish, Elongate sunfish, Oblong sunfish, Slender Mola, Slender mola, Truncated sunfish, Trunkfish, Tsunami fish

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 25.707 kg.

Brosme

brosme brosme
Brismak, Cusk, Moonfish, Torsk, Tusk

Length: up to 1.2 m.

Weight: up to 30 kg.

American pollack

pollachius virens
Billet, Coal-fish, Coalfish, Coley, Glassan, Gloshan, Green cod, Pollock, Poodler, Saithe, Sillock

Length: up to 1.3 m.

Weight: up to 32 kg.

Atlantic salmon

salmo salar
Bay salmon, Black salmon, Breeder, Caplin-scull salmon, Common Fiddler, Grayling, Grilse, Grilt, Kelt, Landlocked salmon, N. Ouananiche, Ouinanish, Outside salmon, Parr, Salmon, Salmon peel, Sea salmon, Sebago salmon, Silver salmon, Slink, Smolt, Spring fish, Spring salmon, Winnish

Length: up to 1.5 m.

Weight: up to 43 kg.

School shark

galeorhinus galeus
Eastern school shark, Flake, Greyboy, Greyshark, Hundshai, Penny's dog, Schnapper shark, Sharpie shark, Snapper shark, Soupfin shark, Sweet William shark, Tope, Tope oil shark, Tope school shark, Tope shark, Tope soupfin shark, Vitamin shark

Length: up to 1.95 m.

Weight: up to 44.7 kg.

Common ling

molva molva
European ling, Ling

Length: up to 2 m.

Weight: up to 45 kg.

Spinetail Ray

bathyraja spinicauda
Spinetail ray, Spinetail skate, Spiny-tailed skate, Spinytail skate

Length: up to 1.7 m.

Weight: up to 52.683 kg.

Norwegian skate

dipturus nidarosiensis

Length: up to 2.3 m.

Weight: up to 60 kg.

Atlantic torpedo

tetronarce nobiliana
Atlantic electric ray, Atlantic New British torpedo, Black torpedo, Crampfish, Dark electric ray, Electric ray, Electricfish, Great torpedo, Numbfish, Torpedo

Length: up to 1.8 m.

Weight: up to 90 kg.

Atlantic torpedo

torpedo nobiliana
Atlantic electric ray, Atlantic New British torpedo, Black torpedo, Crampfish, Dark electric ray, Electric ray, Electricfish, Great torpedo, Numbfish, Torpedo

Length: up to 1.8 m.

Weight: up to 90 kg.

Atlantic cod

gadus morhua
Bacalao, Bacaleau, Baccalao, Baccale, Baccalo, Bank cod, Bank fish, Bastard, Berry fish, BlackBerry fish, Breeder, Bull dog, Cod, Cod-fish, Codd, Codde, Codling, Duffy, Fall fish, Fish, Foxy tom-cod, Grog fish, Haberdine, Harbour tom-cod, Hen, Inshore cod, Kil'din cod, Loader, Logy fish, Mother fish, Newfoundland fish, Northern cod, Old soaker, Pea, Red-cod, Schrod, Scrad, Scraud, Scrawd, Scrod, Seal-head cod, Shoal cod, Shoal fish, Shore cod, Shore fish, Snig, Snub, Snubby, Soaker, Split, Swallow, Swallow tail, Tally fish, Tom-cod, Trap cod, Trap fish, Winter fish

Length: up to 2 m.

Weight: up to 96 kg.

Blue skate

dipturus batis
Blue grey skate, Common skate, Flapper skate, Gray skate, Grey skate, Skate

Length: up to 2.85 m.

Weight: up to 97.1 kg.

Croaker

argyrosomus regius
Meagre, Salmon bass, Shadefish

Length: up to 2.3 m.

Weight: up to 103 kg.

Bramble shark

echinorhinus brucus
Mango-tara, Spinous shark, Spiny shark

Length: up to 3.1 m.

Weight: up to 227.965 kg.

Porbeagle

lamna nasus
Beaumaris shark, Blue dog, Mackerel shark, Porbeagle shark, Porbeale shark

Length: up to 3.5 m.

Weight: up to 230 kg.

Atlantic halibut

hippoglossus hippoglossus
Halibut

Length: up to 4.7 m.

Weight: up to 320 kg.

Smooth hammerhead

sphyrna zygaena
Common hammerhead, Common hammerhead shark, Common smooth hammerhead shark, Hammerhead, Hammerhead shark, Round headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammer head shark, Round-headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammerhead shark, Shark, Smooth hammer-headed shark, Smooth Hammerhead, Smooth hammerhead shark

Length: up to 4 m.

Weight: up to 400 kg.

Common thresher

alopias vulpinus
Atlantic thresher, Big-eye thresher, Common thresher shark, Fox shark, Grayfish, Green thresher, Sea fox, Slasher, Swingletail, Swiveltail, Swivetail, Thintail thresher, Thrasher, Thresher, Thresher shark, Thresher Shark, Tresher shark, Whip-tailed shark, Zorro thresher shark

Length: up to 6.09 m.

Weight: up to 510 kg.

Ocean sunfish

mola mola
Giant sunfish, Headfish, Mola ocean sunfish, Moonfish, Ocean Sunfish, Sun-fish

Length: up to 2.5 m.

Weight: up to 1 t.

Bluntnose sixgill shark

hexanchus griseus
6-gilled shark, Atlantic mud shark, Atlantic mudshark, Bluntnose Sixgill Shark, Brown shark, Bull dog shark, Bull shark, Cow shark, Gray shark, Grey shark, Mud shark, Six-gill shark, Six-gilled shark, Sixgill cow shark, Sixgill shark, Sixgilled shark

Length: up to 6 m.

Weight: up to 1 t.

Greenland shark

somniosus microcephalus
Ground shark, Oakettle

Length: up to 7.3 m.

Weight: up to 1.5 t.