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🇬🇧 Fish of the United Kingdom

25 fish from the United Kingdom, best known first.

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Fish places in the United Kingdom

Billingsgate Fish Market Grimsby Peterhead

🇺🇸 United States and 2 morePumpkinseed A small freshwater fish native to eastern North America, known for its bright colours and red ear flap.Perch-like · Rivers and lakes · 1793

🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreBarbel Carp-like freshwater fish with distinctive mouth barbelsCarp · Rivers and lakes

🇬🇧 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 2 moreGrayling A cold-water salmonid fish native to European rivers, prized by anglers for its distinctive dorsal fin.Salmonid · Rivers and lakes

🇩🇪 Germany and 4 moreEuropean smelt Small coastal fish with a cucumber scentOther · Rivers and lakes

🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreWalking catfish A Southeast Asian air-breathing catfish known for moving across land and surviving out of water.Catfish · Rivers and lakes

🇸🇪 Sweden and 3 moreIde A freshwater cyprinid native to Europe and Asia, widely kept in ornamental ponds.Carp · Rivers and lakes · 1758

🇫🇮 Finland and 4 moreEuropean river lamprey A parasitic freshwater and marine fish found across Europe.Ancient · Rivers and lakes

🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreCrucian carp A European cyprinid known for surviving winter ice by converting lactate to ethanol.Carp · Rivers and lakes

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Crucian carp: Daderot, CC0, source
Lamprey: Tiit Hunt, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Pumpkinseed: Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Barbel: Neil Phillips, CC BY 2.0, source
Sea trout: No machine-readable author provided. Wolfgang Striewski assumed (based, Public domain, source
Grayling: High Plains Grifter, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
European smelt: WHell at German Wikipedia, Public domain, source
Walking catfish: Vassil, CC0, source
Ide: Viridiflavus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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