Table 11-10. Major Sport Fishes of the Characterization Area c 



Group and 

 common name 



Taxonomic name 



Marine 



Bluef ish 



Atlantic cod 



Atlantic mackerel 



Winter flounder 



Shark 



Pollock 



Red fish 



Pomatomus saltatrix 



Gadus morhua 



Scomber scombrus 



Pseudopleuronectes amer icanus 



Squalidae sp. 



Pollachius virens 



Sebastes marinus 



Anadromous 



Atlantic salmon 

 American shad 

 Alewif e 

 Striped bass b 

 Rainbow smelt 



Freshwater 



Salmo salar 

 Alosa sapidissima 

 Alosa pseudoharengus 

 Morone saxatilis 

 Osmerus mordax 



Coldwater 



Landlocked salmon 

 Brook trout 

 Lake trout 

 Brown trout 

 Rainbow trout 

 Lake whitefish 



Warm water 



Chain pickerel 

 White perch 

 Smallmouth bass 

 Largemouth bass 



Salmo sala r sebago 

 Salvelinus fontinalis 

 Salvelinus namaycush 

 Salmo trutta 

 Salmo gairdneri 

 Coregonus clupeaf ormis 



Esox niger 

 Morone americana 

 Micropterus dolomieui 

 Micropterus salmo ides 



'Foye (1969); MDIFW (1976) ; Chenoweth (1977) ; Meister and Foye (1963) 



J Anadromous, but does not spawn in Maine. 



11-43 



10-80 



