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Current North Dakota Fish Species Listing

  • CATFISH
    • Black Bullhead (Native)
    • Brown Bullhead (Native)
    • Channel Catfish (Native)
    • Flathead Catfish (Native)
    • Stonecat (Native)
    • Tadpole Madtom (Native)
    • Yellow Bullhead (Native)
  • CODFISH
    • Burbot (Native)
  • DRUM
    • Freshwater Drum (Native)
  • GAR
    • Shortnose Gar (Native)
  • KILLIFISH
    • Banded Killifish (Native)
  • LAMPREY
    • Chestnut Lamprey (Native)
    • Silver Lamprey (Native)
  • MINNOW
    • Bighead Carp (Nonnative)
    • Bigmouth Shiner (Native)
    • Blacknose Shiner (Native)
    • Bluntnose Minnow (Native)
    • Brassy Minnow (Native)
    • Carmine Shiner (Native)
    • Central Mudminnow (Native)
    • Central Stoneroller (Native)
    • Common Carp (Nonnative)
    • Common Shiner (Native)
    • Creek Chub (Native)
    • Emerald Shiner (Native)
    • Fathead Minnow (Native)
    • Finescale Dace (Native)
    • Flathead Chub (Native)
    • Golden Shiner (Native)
    • Hornyhead Chub (Native)
    • Lake Chub (Native)
    • Largescale Stoneroller (Native)
    • Longnose Dace (Native)
    • Pearl Dace (Native)
    • Northern Redbelly Dace (Native)
    • Plains Minnow (Native)
    • Pugnose Shiner (Native)
    • Red Shiner (Native)
    • River Shiner (Native)
    • Sand Shiner (Native)
    • Sicklefin Chub (Native)
    • Silver Carp (Nonnative)
    • Silver Chub (Native)
    • Spotfin Shiner (Native)
    • Spottail Shiner (Native)
    • Sturgeon Chub (Native)
    • Western Blacknose Dace (Native)
    • Western Silvery Minnow (Native)
  • MOONEYE
    • Goldeye (Native)
    • Mooneye (Native)
  • PADDLEFISH
    • Paddlefish (Native)
  • PERCH
    • Blackside Darter (Native)
    • Iowa Darter (Native)
    • Johnny Darter (Native)
    • Logperch (Native)
    • Sauger (Native)
    • Troutperch (Native)
    • Walleye (Native)
    • Yellow Perch (Native)
    • Zander (Nonnative)
  • PIKE
    • Northern Pike (Native)
    • Pure Muskellunge (Nonnative)
    • Tiger Muskellunge (Nonnative)
    • SHAD and HERRING
    • Gizzard Shad (Native)
  • SMELT
    • Rainbow Smelt (Nonnative)
  • STICKLEBACK
    • Brook Stickleback (Native)
  • STURGEON
    • Lake Sturgeon (Native)
    • Pallid Sturgeon (Native)
    • Shovelnose Sturgeon (Native)
  • SUCKER
    • Bigmouth Buffalo (Native)
    • Blue Sucker (Native)
    • Golden Redhorse (Native)
    • Greater Redhorse (Native)
    • Longnose Sucker (Native)
    • Quillback (Native)
    • River Carpsucker (Native)
    • Shorthead Redhorse (Native)
    • Silver Redhorse (Native)
    • Smallmouth Buffalo (Native)
    • White Sucker (Native)
  • SUNFISH
    • Black Crappie (Native)
    • Bluegill (Native)
    • Green Sunfish (Native)
    • Largemouth Bass (Nonnative)
    • Orangespotted Sunfish (Native)
    • Pumpkinseed (Native)
    • Rock Bass (Native)
    • Smallmouth Bass (Nonnative)
    • White Crappie (Native)
  • TEMPERATE BASS
    • White Bass (Nonnative)
  • TROUT
    • Brown Trout (Nonnative)
    • Chinook Salmon (Nonnative)
    • Cisco (Nonnative)
    • Cutthroat Trout (Nonnative)
    • Lake Trout (Nonnative)
    • Lake Whitefish (Nonnative)
    • Rainbow Trout (Nonnative)