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INDEX OF SPECIES THAT APPEAR IN NOVA SCOTIA
Fishes
Freshwater Species
Sea lamprey
Atlantic Sturgeon
American Eel
Blueback Herring
Gaspereau
American Shad
Lake Whitefish
Atlantic Whitefish
Rainbow Trout
Atlantic Salmon
Brown Trout
Brook (Trout) Char
Lake (Trout) Char
Rainbow Smelt
Chain Pickerel
Goldfish
Lake Chub
Common Shiner
Pearl Dace
Golden Shiner
Blacknose Shiner
Northern Redbelly Dace
Blacknose Dace
Creek Chub
Fallfish
White Sucker
Brown Bullhead
Atlantic Tomcod
Banded Killfish
Mummichog
Fourspine Stickleback
Brook Stickleback
Threespine Stickleback
Ninespine Stickle back
White Perch
Striped Bass
Smallmouth Bass
Yellow Perch
Marine Species
Does not include deepwater fish
Atlantic Hagfish
Sea lamprey
Basking Shark
Porbeagle
Blue Shark
Spiny Dogfish
Atlantic Torpedo
Little Skate
Winter Skate
Atlantic Sturgeon
American Eel
Blueback Herring
Gaspereau or Alewife
American Shad
Atlantic Herring
Lake Whitefish
Atlantic Whitefish
Atlantic Salmon
Brown Trout
Brook (Trout) Char
Capelin
Rainbow Smelt
Monkfish
Cusk
Fourbeard Rockling
Atlantic Cod
Greenland Cod
Haddock
Silver Hake
Atlantic Tomcod
Pollock
White Hake
Atlantic Saury
Banded Killfish
Mummichog
Atlantic Silverside
Fourspine Stickleback
Threespine Stickleback
Ninespine Stickleback
Blackspotted Stickleback
Northern Pipefish
White Perch
Striped Bass
Tautog
Cunner
Ocean Pout
Radiated Shanny
Rock Gunnel
Atlantic Wolffish
Wrymouth
American Sand Lance
Atlantic Mackerel
BluefinTuna
Swordfish
Butterfish
Golden Redfish
Sea Raven
Grubby
Longhorn Sculpin
Shorthorn Sculpin
Alligatorfish
Lumpfish
Atlantic Snailfish
Windowpane
American Plaice
Yellowtail Flounder
Smooth Flounder
Winter Flounder
Ocean Sunfish