🇬🇧 Fish of the United Kingdom
25 fish from the United Kingdom, best known first.
Fish places in the United Kingdom
GroupSharkRayCarpCatfishSalmonidHerringCodTunaPerch-likeCichlidReef fishEelFlatfishLivebearerAncientOther
WaterRivers and lakesEstuaries and mangrovesCoasts and shelvesCoral reefsOpen oceanDeep seaPolar and cold seasCaves and springsBetween sea and river
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreSea trout
Anadromous form of brown trout that migrates between sea and rivers.Salmonid · Between sea and river
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreMarbled electric ray
A benthic electric ray from the eastern Atlantic known for its powerful shocks and mottled brown skin.Ray · Coasts and shelves · 1810
🇩🇪 Germany and 4 moreEuropean smelt
Small coastal fish with a cucumber scentOther · Rivers and lakes
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreEuropean hake
A predatory demersal fish of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.Other · Coasts and shelves
🇳🇴 Norway and 2 moreAtlantic mackerel
Fast-swimming, oily fish of the North AtlanticTuna · Coasts and shelves · 1758
🇨🇦 Canada and 4 moreAtlantic halibut
The world's largest flatfish, found in the North Atlantic.Flatfish · Coasts and shelves
🇫🇮 Finland and 4 moreEuropean river lamprey
A parasitic freshwater and marine fish found across Europe.Ancient · Rivers and lakes
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreHaddock
A North Atlantic cod family fish known for its black shoulder blotch and smoked preparations.Cod · Coasts and shelves · 1758
🇨🇦 Canada and 4 moreAtlantic cod
A large, spotted marine fish vital to North Atlantic fisheries.Cod · Coasts and shelves
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 morePlaice
A group of flatfish species, including the commercially vital European plaice, found in northern seas.Flatfish · Coasts and shelves
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Plaice: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Atlantic mackerel: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Atlantic halibut: Vsevolod Rudyi, CC BY 4.0, source
- Lamprey: Tiit Hunt, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sea trout: No machine-readable author provided. Wolfgang Striewski assumed (based, Public domain, source
- Marbled electric ray: Philippe Guillaume, CC BY 2.0, source
- European smelt: WHell at German Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- European hake: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haddock: H. L. Todd, Public domain, source
- Atlantic cod: Wilhelm Thomas Fiege, CC BY-SA 4.0, source