Table 1. ELMR North Atlantic species. 

 Common name Scientific name 



Blue mussel 



Sea scallop 



American oyster 



Northern quahog 



Softshell clam 



Daggerblade grass shrimp 



Northern shrimp 



Sevenspine bay shrimp 



American lobster 



Jonah crab 



Atlantic rock crab 



Green crab 



Green sea urchin 



Spiny dogfish 



Skates 



Shortnose sturgeon 



Atlantic sturgeon 



American eel 



Blueback herring 



Alewife 



American shad 



Atlantic menhaden 



Atlantic herring 



Rainbow smelt 



Atlantic salmon 



Atlantic cod 



Haddock 



Silver hake 



Atlantic tomcod 



Pollock 



Red hake 



White hake 



Mummichogs 



Silversides 



Fourspine stickleback 



Threespine stickleback 



Ninespine stickleback 



Northern pipefish 



Northern searobin 



Grubby 



Longhorn sculpin 



Shorthorn sculpin 



White perch 



Striped bass 



Bluefish 



Scup 



Tautog 



Cunner 



Ocean pout 



Rock gunnel 



American sand lance 



Atlantic mackerel 



Butterfish 



Windowpane flounder 



American plaice 



Winter flounder 



Yellowtail flounder 



Smooth flounder 



Mytilus edulis 



Placopecten magellanicus 



Crassostrea virginica 



Mercenaha mercenaria 



Mya arenaria 



Palaemonetes pugio 



Pandalus borealis 



Crangon septemspinosa 



Homarus americanus 



Cancer borealis 



Cancer irroratus 



Carcinus maenas 



Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis 



Squalus acanthias 



Raja species 



Acipenser brevirostrum 



Acipenser oxyrhynchus 



Anguilla rostrata 



Alosa aestivalis 



Alosa pseudoharengus 



Alosa sapidissima 



Brevoortia tyrannus 



Clupea harengus 



Osmerus mordax 



Salmo salar 



Gadus morhua 



Melanogrammus aeglefinus 



Merluccius bilinearis 



Microgadus tomcod 



Pollachius virens 



Urophycis chuss 



Urophycis tenuis 



Fundulus heteroclitus 



Menidia species 



Apeltes quadracus 



Gasterosteus aculeatus 



Pungitius pungitius 



Syngnathus fuscus 



Prionotus carolinus 



Myoxocephalus aenaeus 



Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus 



Myoxocephalus scorpius 



Morone americana 



Morone saxatilis 



Pomatomus saltatrix 



Stenotomus chrysops 



Tautoga onitis 



Tautogolabrus adspersus 



Macrozoarces americanus 



Pholis gunnellus 



Ammodytes americanus 



Scomber scombrus 



Peprilus triacanthus 



Scophthalmus aquosus 



Hippoglossoides platessoides 



Pleuronectes americanus 



Pleuronectes ferrugineus 



Pleuronectes putnami 



Family 



Mytilidae 



Pectinidae 



Ostreidae 



Veneridae 



Myidae 



Palaemonidae 



Pandalidae 



Crangonidae 



Nephropidae 



Cancridae 



Cancridae 



Portunidae 



Strongylocentrotidae 



Squalidae 



Rajidae 



Acipenseridae 



Acipenseridae 



Anguillidae 



Clupeidae 



Clupeidae 



Clupeidae 



Clupeidae 



Clupeidae 



Osmeridae 



Salmonidae 



Gadidae 



Gadidae 



Gadidae 



Gadidae 



Gadidae 



Gadidae 



Gadidae 



Cyprinodontidae 



Atherinidae 



Gasterosteidae 



Gasterosteidae 



Gasterosteidae 



Syngnathidae 



Triglidae 



Cottidae 



Cottidae 



Cottidae 



Percichthyidae 



Percichthyidae 



Pomatomidae 



Sparidae 



Labridae 



Labridae 



Zoarcidae 



Pholidae 



Ammodytidae 



Scombridae 



Stromateidae 



Bothidae 



Pleuronectidae 



Pleuronectidae 



Pleuronectidae 



Pleuronectidae 



