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Freshwater Fish- Florida has 3 million acres of freshwater lakes and 12,000 miles of streams and rivers. From those waters over 250 different species of freshwater fish have been collected. This includes several rather rare native fishes and 73 species of nonnative fish. The fish species that most people tend to think about are the larger fish that are used for recreation or food. We have listed our fish by common family groupings. Black Bass: Largemouth \| Redeye \| Shoal \| Spotted \| Suwannee Catfish: Blue Catfish \| Brown Bullhead \| Channel Catfish \| Flathead Catfish \| White Catfish \| Yellow Bullhead Gar: Alligator Gar \| Florida Gar \| Longnose Gar \| Spotted Gar Panfish: Black Crappie \| Bluegill \| Flier \| Redbreast \| Redear \| Spotted Sunfish Pickerels: Chain Pickerel \| Redfin Pickerel Stripers: Striper \| Sunshine \| White Bass Suckers: Blacktail Redhorse \| Grayfin Redhorse \| Highfin Carpsucker \| Lake Chubsucker \| Quillback \| River Redhorse \| Sharpfin Chubsucker \| Spotted Sucker Other: American Eel \| American Shad \| Atlantic Sturgeon \| Bowfin \| Golden Shiner \| Mosquito Fish \| Shortnose Sturgeon \| Skipjack Herring \| Kuhli \| Mozambique Tilapia\| Pacu Nonnative Fish: Black Acara \| Blue Tilapia \| Brown Hoplo \| Bullseye Snakehead \| Butterfly Peacock \| Clown Knifefish \| Common Carp \| Grass Carp \| Jaguar Guapote \| Mayan Cichlid \| Midas Cichlid \| Oscar \| Spotted Tilapia \| Suckermouth Catfishes \| Swamp Eel \| Walking Catfish Prohibited Aquatics: Electric Catfish \| African Tigerfish \| Airbreathing Catfish \| Parasitic Catfish \| Electric Eel \| Lampreys \| Piranha \| Trahiras \| Airsac Catfish \| Green Sunfish \| Australian Crayfish Marine Fish- Florida waters have more than 1,000 species of marine fish, most of them edible and all of them interesting. Of those, more than 40 are sufficiently important for their harvest to be regulated. Six species have game fish status (redfish, snook, tarpon, bonefish, sailfish, and permit over 20 inches in length), meaning that they may not be sold. Included in the following listing are 114 fish commonly caught by anglers in Florida. They are grouped into Families as listed in the American Fisheries Society publication, "Common and Scientific Names of Fishes." Billfishes: Blue Marlin \| Longbill Spearfish \| Sailfish \| White Marlin Bluefish: Bluefish Bonefish: Bonefish Cobia: Cobia (ling) Drums: Atlantic Croaker \| Black Drum \| Red Drum (redfish) \| Sand Seatrout \| Silver Seatrout \| Spotted Seatrout \| Silver Perch (yellowtail) \| Weakfish Grouper: Black Grouper \| Gag \| Goliath \| Nassau Grouper \| Red Grouper \| Scamp \| Yellowfin Grouper \| Yellowmouth Grouper \| Warsaw Grouper \| Bank Sea Bass \| Black Sea Bass \| Rock Sea Bass Flounder: Gulf Flounder Grunt: White Grunt Herring: American Shad Jacks: Almaco Jack \| Banded Rudderfish \| Blue Runner \| Cervalle Jack \| Greater Amberjack \| Lesser Amberjack \| Florida Pompano \| Palometa \| Permit Mackerels & Tunas: Cero \| King Mackerel \| Spanish Mackerel Mullets: Striped (Black) Mullet Spadefish: Atlantic Spadefish Tarpons: Ladyfish \| Tarpon Porgy: Grass \| Jolthead \| Knobbed \|Littlehead \| Pinfish \| Red Porgy \| Sheepshead \| Spottail Pinfish Sharks: Atlantic Sharpnose Shark \| Bonnethead Shark \| Sandbar Shark \| Scalloped Hammerhead \| Shortfin Mako Snappers: Blackfin Snapper \| Cubera Snapper \| Dog Snapper \| Gray Snapper \| Lane Snapper \| Mahogany Snapper \| Mutton Snapper \| Queen Snapper \| Red Snapper \| Schoolmaster \| Silk Snapper \| Vermilion Snapper \| Yellowtail Snapper Snook: Fat Snook \| Common Snook \| Swordspine Snook \| Tarpon Snook
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