Fishes of North Sea

Fishes of North Sea. Weight: 2 kg and bigger. Mustache: have no. Coloring: Back and belly in different colors

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.

Golden grey mullet

chelon auratus
Golden mullet, Long-finned grey mullet

Length: up to 59 cm.

Weight: up to 2.5 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.

Thinlip mullet

chelon ramada
Grey mullet, Haarder, Mowel, Thin-lipped grey mullet, Thinlip grey mullet

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 3 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.

Black scabbardfish

aphanopus carbo
Black espada, Black scabbard fish

Length: up to 1.51 m.

Weight: up to 3.362 kg.

Red gurnard

aspitrigla cuculus
East Atlantic red gurnard, Soldier

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 3.368 kg.

Atlantic mackerel

scomber scombrus
Joey, Mackerel, Split

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 3.4 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.

Thicklip grey mullet

chelon labrosus
Grey mullet, Lesser grey mullet, Thichlip mullet, Thick lipped mullet, Thick-lipped grey mullet, Thick-lipped mullet

Length: up to 75 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.

European eel

anguilla anguilla
Common eel, Eel, River eel, Silver eel, Sing eel, Weed eel, Yellow eel

Length: up to 1.5 m.

Weight: up to 6 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.

Atlantic bonito

sarda sarda
Atlantic Bonito, Belted bonito, Bloater, Bone jack, Boston mackerel, Common bonito, Horse mackerel, Pelamid, Short finned tunny, Skipjack, Stripe-backed pelamis

Length: up to 91 cm.

Weight: up to 11 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.

European seabass

dicentrarchus labrax
Bass, Capemouth, Common bass, European bass, King of the mullets, Sea bass, Sea dace, Sea perch, White mullet, White salmon

Length: up to 1.03 m.

Weight: up to 12 kg.

Callagh

pollachius pollachius
Coalfish, Dover hake, European pollock, Grass whiting, Green pollack, Greenfish, Lythe, Margate hake, Pollack, Pollak

Length: up to 1.3 m.

Weight: up to 12.5 kg.

Plain bonito

orcynopsis unicolor

Length: up to 1.3 m.

Weight: up to 13.1 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.

Arctic char

salvelinus alpinus
Alpine char, Arctic charr, Breeder, Char, Charr, Davatchan, Lake char, Redfish, Salt-water trout, Sea run trout, Sea trout, Trout

Length: up to 1.07 m.

Weight: up to 15 kg.

Cornish salmon

merluccius merluccius
European hake, Hake, Herring hake

Length: up to 1.4 m.

Weight: up to 15 kg.

Asp

leuciscus aspius
Aral asp

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.

Little tunny

euthynnus alletteratus
Atlantic black skipjack, Atlantic little tuna, Atlantic little tunny, Bonito, False albacore, Little tuna, Little Tunny, Tuna

Length: up to 1.22 m.

Weight: up to 16.5 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.

Big-scale pomfret

taractichthys longipinnis
Angel, Angelfish, Bigscale pomfret, Bigscale Pomfret, Bigscale promfret, Long-finned bream, Long-finned pomfret

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 20.89 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.

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.

Skipjack tuna

katsuwonus pelamis
Aku, Arctic bonito, Atlantic bonito, Atu, Banjo, Barriolet, Bonito, Club mackerel, Lesser tunny, Mushmouth, Ocean bonito, Oceanic bonito, Oceanic skipjack, Skipjack Tuna, Skipjack tuna fish, Skipjack-tuna, Skipper, Skippy, Skiy jack, Striped bellied bonito, Striped bellied tunny, Striped bonito, Striped tuna, Striped tunny, Stripey, Stripped tuna, Stripy, Victor fish, Watermelon, White bonito

Length: up to 1.1 m.

Weight: up to 34.5 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.

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.

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.

Giant oarfish

regalecus glesne
King of herrings, King of the herring, King of the herrings, Oar-fish, Oarfish, Pacific oarfish, Ribbon-fish, Ribbonfish, Streamer fish

Length: up to 8 m.

Weight: up to 272 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.

Swordfish

xiphias gladius
Broad-bill sword-fish, Broadbill, Broadbill swordfish, Marlin, Sword fish, Sword-fish

Length: up to 4.55 m.

Weight: up to 650 kg.

Atlantic bluefin tuna

thunnus thynnus
Blue fin tuna, Blue-fin tunny, Bluefin Tuna, Bluefin tuna, Bluefin tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, Southern bluefin tuna, Squid hound

Length: up to 4.58 m.

Weight: up to 684 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.